http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77111,00.html
Never before have I wanted to take a shotgun to so many people.

Just remember which President and which political party the Trial Lawyers support.

Nox

u know for someone called nukechild..... shouldn't u have a nuke under your bed so your parents dont find it or something?


Hurricane

I've got no problem with people who sue other people... it's the JUDGES that actually award damages that chap my ass.

Cases like the ones in that artice are sad and disgraceful. The funny thing is, even if they get all that money, what are they going to do with it? I mean they're physically fucked up for life - there's no way they can truly enjoy their lives that way even if they do get $9 million. Serves them right...

LowLife

Didn't Bush say he wanted to tackle ridiculous litigation?

YES!

Nox

This litigation bullshit needs to stop. Like the ACLU was pulling crosses of war veterans put their by their families. WTF?
Did you hear about the guy that sued McDoanlds because he ate Big Macs, Fries, and Chicken Buckets everyday and wondered why he was so fucking fat? Or the guy that sued because his coffe was too hot? Maybe if I stab myself with a pencil I can get legislation passed called 'The Towelhead Bill" which prohibits yellow or otherwise 'threatening looking' pencils. On TV I can run around in a creeky wheelchair and show the damage that a #2 pencil has caused to my life. I could even sue saying it was a 'traumatic experience' and that trees probably aren't happy either.

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Here's another atrocity--some idiot walks along w/headphones on, steps into traffic w/o looking, gets hit by a car, sues Sony, wins. To my recollection, this sort of bs was up an running around 1974 when they took the diving boards off of pools in the apt complex I was living in.

Some fairly late-breaking good news--the fast food fatty case was thrown out of court, thank goodness for a judge w/two brain cells to rub together. By the way, the coffee thing wasn't totally bogus--after all, the old woman did suffer serious second-degree burns and required hospital treatment--granted, it wasn't terribly bright to try holding the container between her legs.

Why don't we just adopt the British system---if you lose, you have to pay the other parties legal bills. This would stop like 60% of lawsuits, since some are filed soley for the purposes of harassment/

can they kick registered users off?

The one major fear about the British system is that it would make it harder to sue large corporations. The corporations would be able to stone wall the case forever and in theory pull some fancy jew legals moves at the end and win the case. Causing the defendent to pay horrific ammounts of legal bills. Depsite that, I am in favor of the idea.