"lawyers who believe . . ." ???? What does belief have to do with anything. I hope this doesn't come as a shock but - they're only it for the money!
And as for perfection being a standard, present-day liability law has no standards - which is a big part of the problem. Standards go back to those days of yesteryear when the legal industry was a profession.
-- Modified on 12/11/2004 4:02:29 PM
OMG...little Suzy heard the word "fuck"!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=8&u=/ap/20041210/ap_on_en_mu/wal_mart_evanescence
But CD's aren't labelled for the word "kill".
As George Carlin said in his classic routine "The Seven Deadly Words", I feel "fuck" shouldn't be a bad word at all, given how it is the start of life and how it is the act of making love between two people. Also as he said, I think we should replace the word "kill" with the word fuck.
"Okay, sheriff...we're gonna FUCK you now...and we're gonna fuck you slowwwwww!"
Of course, the whole issue of the linked story is that someone saw yet another opportunity to make money in Litigation Nation. It's a sad day when I am taking the side of Wal-Mart.
Mom and dad will be running out to buy that damn Cd buy a case, and consider it bland in comparison.
Besides, their lawyer sounds a bit off. Walmart isn't a "multimillion-dollar corporation". It's a multi-billion dollar corporation. If I remember right, they've been hangin' arount 250 billion and are projected to be that area again thru the holiday season. I don't know where he comes from, but it always gets harder to communicate, not easier, as the company grows.
Also looks like little Suzy's parents aren't going to allow her to watch the latest version of "Walking Tall" on video either, even though it's rated PG13 and she is old enough. The fuck word is tin there too, It'd be a trip if she turned around and sued her parents over that one.
Amusing that this is being turned around to attack Walmart, one of the great supporters of the censorship movement.
Of course, that's always the problem with revolutions, social or otherwise. To paraphrase Maximillian Robespierre of the Committee for Public Safety (right before he was guillotined at the the end of Reign of Terror during the French revolution), it's hard to stop these revolutions when they pick up a head of steam.
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The whole thread is an amusing look at some of what makes this puritan nation tick. But my comment goes to those lawyers who believe absolute perfection is the only standard that must be achieved (otherwise why sue Walmart for ONE miss). Shouldn't the lawyers first have to prove they never missed a question on any test they ever took while getting their law degree?????
"lawyers who believe . . ." ???? What does belief have to do with anything. I hope this doesn't come as a shock but - they're only it for the money!
And as for perfection being a standard, present-day liability law has no standards - which is a big part of the problem. Standards go back to those days of yesteryear when the legal industry was a profession.
-- Modified on 12/11/2004 4:02:29 PM
But you don't see the press making a big deal of that do you..
It is just that most of those lawsuits aren't "juicy", news wise. They are about mundane things like collecitons or patent infringement or trademarks.
However, even in that 5%, there is plenty of room for frivolous lawsuits and people just trying to cash in. It is stuff like that which gives many good lawyers and many valid lawsuits a bad reputation.
"Good lawyers" are a minority of those in the legal industry (sometimes erroneously called the legal profession); "valid lawsuits" make up a minority of the docket of any courthouse* (although the size of the minority does vary from state to state). Yes, both exist, but . . .
*And that includes business v. business suits (which is a high percentage of all suits, but less than 95%)
-- Modified on 12/11/2004 3:57:45 PM
Why do you think the congresscritters are trying to limit the awards when the private citizen WINS (not frivolous) against a giant corp who really did maliciously harm them and the public.....BUT...
. . .the Congresscritters are NOT trying to limit awards when it is a corp winning against another corp?
Why is it we only hear about the funny or odd lawsuits from the individual against a corp or business, but NEVER EVER hear about frivolous lawsuits from a corp against a corp?
Just wondering!
TET
WallMart had a policy of not carrying any records with PA stickeers. This record did not. SFW. Wall Mart is under no obligation, even in buffuck tennessee, to make sure the word never reaches little susie's ears.