Hi folks, what a pleasant surprise -- a few more days of sweater weather! Enjoy it while it lasts....
Like her Herald brethren Glenn Garvin, new local conservative Herald columnist Jackie Bueno Sousa is also a legal scholar.
The problem -- yawn -- big jury awards!
Zzzzz.....
(Sorry, I fell asleep there for a moment....)
The solution, like any intellectually rigorous conservative will tell you, involves the state taking the money from the risk-taking individual and giving it to the government:
One method several states have used is a concept called split recovery: The plaintiff only gets a portion of the award, while the other portion goes to a fund created by the state, to be used for a public purpose.Here's my solution -- give all the money to Alex Alvarez. Frankly, that makes a lot more sense then giving it to the government. Sheesh, what is it with conservatives lately?
Better yet, give Alex Alvarez your column because this is utter crap.
Oy, I feel like I am back listening to South Florida talk radio from the 70s......Normie help me out here.....next up on Steve Kane, Jews vs. slightly more reformed Jews, and then Alan Burke will host an abortion debate!
22 comments:
Solid Monday entry, SFL. She's even worse than Garvin.
Jackie Bueno Sousa did a "bueno" job, SFL.
BTW, that opinion might change after I have had my morning coffee.
9:55, I didn't think there was anyone worse than Mr. Garvin. Sheesh!
Leave it to a supposed conservative to argue for the government to take the money awarded by jurors. Oy is right SFL.
Those who can, do. Those who can't work at the Miami Herald.
"Broward"!!
I do hope her and Garvin keep delving into legal topics they know nothing about. Anybody want to guess what they'll tackle next?
No wonder McClatchy is going under, with that kind of content.
“Most Republicans are not entrepreneurial,” he lamented to me. “They’re corporatists. They like the security and the comfort of a well-thought-out, highly boring boardroom meeting in which they do a PowerPoint once. And it worries them to have ideas, because ideas have edges, and they’re not totally formed, and you’ve got to prove them, and they sound strange because they’re new, and if it’s new how do you know it’s any good, because, after all, it’s new and you’ve never heard it before.”
Why were you listening to talk radio in the seventies, SFL? Weren't people listening to disco then?
10:45- Agreed. The Herald needs more humor.
Glenny and Jackie are not hip to SFLs' blog. They have not read his glowing review on their "legal" opinions.
What a monday. When can I leave?
Regardless of the merits of her particular viewpoint, what the hell kind of analysis is that? Did she the get the idea for the article on the toilet and just type it up when she got done? Inconclusive, mealy-mouthed ruminations on a topic - that's good content for a major metropolitan newspaper.
Then again, have you ever read one of newbie's research memos?
'trane
2:01, Shumie Time declares now!
Conservative Republican Lawyer Representative Anitere Flores, former aide to former speaker of the house convervative republican lawyer Marco Rubio is proposing to limit workers compensation fees for lawyers. Lawyers taking money from lawyers, must really be a bad economy
2:22- To be fair newbie has posted more than one reasonable and intelligent comment on this blog. I guess he was taking his meds on those days.
'trane, she never explains why her proposal is "fair" -- except by noting that in later cases punitive damages may be unavailable, thereby making it "unfair" for you to prove your case first and establish liability for your client?
SFL -
She never really embraces it as her view. She is simply troubled by the practice, but not sure that giving the money to the government is the best answer either.
Gee, jurisprudential policy and related legislation often involves difficult choices and competing interests . . . Stop the Presses!!
There is also nothing particularly unique or per se unfair about being left out if you file too late - happens all the time when corporations become insolvent in mass tort or similar litigation. What's her response to that? I guess we'll just have to wait until her lunch "cycles through."
'trane
Did you and Marry Jane get back together? That was some 'Natish' stream of consciousness there. Not that it would be bad if it were, or anything. Also.
GW
Natty Dread.
'trane
10:08- Neither did I.
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