Comments on: New at Point of Law https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/02/new-at-point-of-law-16/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:40:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: No Name Guy https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/02/new-at-point-of-law-16/comment-page-1/#comment-83946 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:40:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16178#comment-83946 Yeah, silly me, thinking we were a nation of laws that have a constant meaning through time so that people can make rational decisions and predict outcomes so as to choose courses of action reasonably understanding the consequences.

Silly me……

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]]> By: Invid https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/02/new-at-point-of-law-16/comment-page-1/#comment-83922 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:17:14 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16178#comment-83922 no name guy – your mistake is looking to the Constitution and thinking that it has much relevance to governance today.
Don’t beat yourself up though, everyone else pretty much has bought into it too.

]]> By: no name guy https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/02/new-at-point-of-law-16/comment-page-1/#comment-83906 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:49:48 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16178#comment-83906 What Rob said. Ok smart lawyers – how is this NOT an ex post facto law?

]]> By: Rob Davidson https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/02/new-at-point-of-law-16/comment-page-1/#comment-83884 Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:50:07 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=16178#comment-83884

Feds swoop down on 2003 settlement to demand that parties reimburse Medicare as provided by retroactive law.

That is a blatant direct violation of Article 1, Section 9, clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, isn’t it? It seems as though they aren’t even bothering to pretend any more.

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