Comments on: Roundup – April 9 https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/04/roundup-april-9/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:17:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: Deoxy https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/04/roundup-april-9/comment-page-1/#comment-13991 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:17:47 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2007/04/roundup-april-9/#comment-13991 I agre with that to a certain degree (how can one follow the law when the governmnt states as fact that you no one person is capable of knowing the law?!?), but I also feel that LOCAL authorities should (and were) granted vry wide latitude and lots of power, as they affect the fewest people and should be (in most cases) most reponsive to their constuents and most easily replaced.

As to the First Amendment issues, 2 reponses:
1) While “one version of history” might be open for debate, some are clearly NOT – they are demonstrably false. “Factoids” and good stories for the tourists may mak more money for the tour guide or fill his tour time more asily, but I can certainly see grounds for slander in some of them, etc, etc.
2) we license some professions; this isn’t about limiting what an private citizen can say in private, but what a paid tour guide can say to the people who pay him. You may make the case that this is not a good profession to treat this way, etc, but it’s not breaking new ground in any way, Constitutionally speaking.

]]> By: David Nieporent https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/04/roundup-april-9/comment-page-1/#comment-13990 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:28:34 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2007/04/roundup-april-9/#comment-13990 Deoxy: part of Overlawyering is overlaw-ing. (That’s an awkward sentence, but you get the idea.) Do you really think the government needs to create books of rules and regulations for how to give a tour? (And don’t you think there might be some First Amendment issues — not to mention academic issues — with declaring one version of history to be “true” and punishing people who describe contrary theories?)

]]> By: Griffin3 https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/04/roundup-april-9/comment-page-1/#comment-13989 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:29:10 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2007/04/roundup-april-9/#comment-13989 The naming of the “police officer standing by” is quite puzzling. Is he being sued for negligently failing to hurl his body into the 3 inches between the handgun and the victim?

]]> By: Deoxy https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/04/roundup-april-9/comment-page-1/#comment-13988 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:07:29 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2007/04/roundup-april-9/#comment-13988 What’s the “overlawyered” angle the Philidlphia tourism thing? That actually sounds fairly reasonable (it being a LOCAL thing, where the founders clearly intended most government power to be). The political stuff recently has to do with lawsyers in politics or politicians’ viws on tort reform, but this? I must be missing something…

And sadly (on your last point), 6 years in litigation is actually not too bad, relativly speaking…

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