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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!fasttech!zeke
- From: zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk)
- Subject: Re: just when you thought you had heard it all
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.092645.25920@fasttech.com>
- Organization: Fast Technology
- References: <21DEC199215003083@oregon.uoregon.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:26:45 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In <21DEC199215003083@oregon.uoregon.edu> dreitman@oregon.uoregon.edu (Daniel R. Reitman, Attorney to Be) writes:
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- >>She is now suing the school district for megabucks on the grounds that the
- >>school's athletic program failed to disclose to her that football is a sport
- >>in which you can get seriously injured.
-
- >What this plaintiff will probably need to prove:
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- [... deleted ...]
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- >Probable defenses:
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- [... deleted ...]
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- >Of course, I'm not licensed to practice, but this is basic tort law. As you
- >can see, the plaintiff may, at first glance, have some trouble with this case.
-
- Thanks for the informative summary of what is involved. In non-legal terms it
- amounts to convincing a jury that the plaintiff didn't know she could get hurt
- playing high school football.
-
- There are two interrelated reasons these cases come about:
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- 1) Too many lawyers, with too much free time. They're basically a burden to
- their firms unless they have something to do. So why not have them out there
- trolling the legal waters for new and innovative ways to screw insurance
- companies (ie the public). They take these cases on spec. If they lose,
- they're no worse off than before. If they win, they get a nice fat chunk
- of the spoils.
-
- 2) The American system of justice, which doesn't force the losing side to pay
- the winning side's damages (except in unusual cases). If the parasitical
- leeches doing the legal prospecting were faced with paying the winning sides
- $200/hr fees every time one of their assinine theories crashed and burned,
- there would be far less of this crap clogging up the courts.
-
- -----
-
- What's 10,000 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the sea?
-
- A good start.
-
- [appeared in the Wall Street Journal, believe it or not]
-