Comments on: October 19 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/10/october-19-roundup-4/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 22 Oct 2016 16:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hugo S Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/10/october-19-roundup-4/comment-page-1/#comment-341968 Sat, 22 Oct 2016 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=61287#comment-341968 Either the animal rights counsel should face serious sanctions, or the Federal judge himself should be roasted by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Question: would the Haredis have faced automatic penalties for flouting a blatantly unconstitutional order? Or would such penalties dissolve once the unconstitutional order is properly recognized as such?

]]> By: Hugo S Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/10/october-19-roundup-4/comment-page-1/#comment-341965 Sat, 22 Oct 2016 15:47:31 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=61287#comment-341965 JASTA is emblematic of how brainless and worthless the Republican Senatorial Caucus has been the last two years. ( One expects Democrats to stick up for trial lawyers, but even they looked slightly better this time around.) (One of my other pet peeves is their total stonewalling of reform to IP abuses, eg software patents.)

Intelligent conservatives could rebrand JASTA the “Schumer- Cornyn Veterans’ Liability Act”, and run TV dramatizations of veterans being evicted from their homes to pay court judgements or their own legal defense fees. The culprits of course would point out that SCVLA only targets foreigners, but we would be ready to explain such concepts as reciprocity, “status of forces agreements,” equal protection of the law, etc.

]]> By: Fox2! https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/10/october-19-roundup-4/comment-page-1/#comment-341893 Thu, 20 Oct 2016 01:49:51 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=61287#comment-341893 Will the judge impose costs and sanctions on the plaintiffs and their counsel?

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