Comments on: Disabled Man Left Overnight in Bus on New Year’s Eve

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:42:15 +0000

rafflaw:

That trend has been constant or increasing since I first started looking at those figures in 1996. The website has a great graph showing the rising contract trend, the torts claims trending down. Man I hate liars and those willfully ignorant people,like most neo-cons, who want to lecture me on the legal system. Facts are persistent things aren’t they.

By: rafflaw

rafflaw — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:43:19 +0000

Mespo,
Great job with the NCSC report. The neocons allege that the courts are overflowing with suits filed by personal injury attorneys trying to rape corporations of their hard earned bailout funds. The report that you quoted is a slap in the Righ’s face with cold facts.

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:33:36 +0000

Mike:

According to the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, about 80% of the civil lawsuits are filings by corporations collecting money from consumers or other corporations.* I say let’s start litigation reform by limiting those suits.

* From the 2007 NCSC report: “In the aggregate, contract
cases represented 84 percent of general civil cases in unified courts, with torts and real property cases comprising 12 percent
and 4 percent, respectively. In general jurisdiction courts, the composition was slightly different with contract cases representing
77 percent of general civil cases, torts 18 percent, and real property cases 5 percent.”

By: Mike Spindell

Mike Spindell — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:39:24 +0000

Mespo,
Have you noticed that the right to sue is mostly decried when those bringing suit aren’t wealthy or socially prominent? Corporations and the wealthy rarely get criticized when they utilize their legal rights. I think back to the early career of Clarence Darrow and the problems he faced when suing Corporations for wrongful deaths. It seems that in the ensuing century+ the interests of the elite have again gained currency mostly due to a corporate controlled media.

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:39:10 +0000

Ohio:

“It wouldn’t be “American” not to sue.”
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Well we could handle it like lawless countries and resort to violence. Or we could handle like nations with an obsequious population and just take it. Or we could handle it like neo-cons and first distort the facts and then just let the victim suffer while criticizing him for being in this predicament in the first place. I like suing better.

By: Ohio

Ohio — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:22:45 +0000

“Presumably the family will also file a tort lawsuit in addition to any criminal charge.”

Dryly, well of course. It wouldn’t be “American” not to sue.