Comments on: Suit: Untimely cremation should net us $3.5M

By: Matthews Cremation Equipment

Matthews Cremation Equipment — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:12:52 +0000

I agree with Cooper, I 100% believe the $3.5 million ad is basically the result of cut-n-paste pleading

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By: Ted Frank

Ted Frank — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:10:29 +0000

This wasn’t simply cut-and-paste ad damnum, according to story: it was a request actually verbally made to a jury.

By: Benjamin Cooper

Benjamin Cooper — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:36:48 +0000

I think the $3.5M ad damnum is basically the result of cut-n-paste pleading and the desire to ensure that a friendly jury (which wasn’t here) won’t be limited by the pleadings.

Other than the fact that the media doesn’t realize that most cases never receive more than 10% of the ad damnum’s value, and the fact that (in this case) it could have been fraudulently alleging federal jurisdiction if there was diversity, I don’t know how objectionable the practice is.