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The thing that never ceases to amaze me about every one of the 'great reset' fantasies isn't that they have no basis in law or economics or politics. The fact that every part of the logistics is implausible is a given as well. The thing that amazes me is the fantasists' utter misunderstanding of whe...

Am I correct in believing that the gross dollars contributed is before cost of raising the money, not net? Otherwise, what the hell is Freedom Watch spending money on other than GIL? You are correct. The contribution amounts listed are the gross amounts. Here is a quick example, from 2016, of how i...

To quickly paraphrase a point from the other thread so it's not left dangling here: If someone files a frivolous suit against you in federal court and asks for IFP status to do it, that's a huge stroke of luck for you. The IFP application means that the case immediately goes to a judge for screening...

I suspect GIL has been getting a salary but also getting paid through legal costs that Freedom Watch pays to him or his "law firm" for representation. Legal fees reported in Freedom Watch's 2013-2018 IRS disclosures: $77K for 2013; $20K for 2014; $64K for 2015; $77K for 2016; $89K for 201...

We lost in the Great Crash the financial disclosures for Freedom Watch. :crying: IIRC, it was taking in around a mil annually, and Klayman was drawing a $200k+ salary (from that million). When you're looking for charity financial disclosures, ProPublica will often have you covered (and they're wort...

And speaking of farce, and more along the lines of the Pro Se Follies we usually see here: Starting in May 2020, Raj K. Patel launches himself into the proceedings . At first, from looking at the document, I thought it was just one of the original plaintiffs choosing (or being forced) to drop the ps...

The district court docket is on RECAP (link goes to the docket entry with the opinion). The highlight for me is this paragraph explaining why the Trumps effectively waived arbitration. You really never want the judge to sum up your behavior using a footnote mentioning 'farce'. Defendants aggressivel...

Yeah, that fell into the category of "seemed likely but didn't feel confident enough to say as a fact since it wasn't explicitly stated in the opinon."

Some activity in the Second Circuit on a case that I don't see previously mentioned here: an attempted class action by participants in "ACN", a multi-level marketing organization. According to the complaint, ACN is a multilevel marketing organization that suffers from the usual faults of m...

I understand the concept that there are commercial vehicle definitions, and restrictions or licensing or whatever aimed at commercial vehicles don't apply to non-commercial vehicles. I CANNOT understand the why Sovcit Nutz cannot understand (or refuse to acknowledge) that commercial vehicles are li...

I was thinking that exact thing. I was also thinking he might have not given a thought to what his wife would have to deal with while he did go on a "vagrant all inclusive spa vacation" Except that if you're a remotely rational and functional person, and if you conclude that the jail is y...

If I read this opinion from the First Circuit correctly, then whoever filed a certain notice of appeal is having some regrets about their life choices. To give my uneducated summary, which I'd love for someone educated to look at and correct: An investment banking firm sets itself up as two companie...

Every once in a while a criminal case comes along that is... just... weird. This is one of them. From the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals , here's a case that turns very odd facts into some odd law. A summary: We begin with a defendant with unfortunate mental health issues. She decides...

While I have no problem with the court suspending his license for lying to court, I think the court is overreaching a bit with lies told to others. Giuliani has a duty of candor with the courts. But disciplining lawyers for false statements generally would catch more than just Giuliani. The NY ethi...

The judge's tentative ruling on the matter of "I roughly doubled my hours; that's cool, right?" is near the bottom of https://www.occourts.org/tentativerulin ... ulings.htm .

"How about zero hours? Does zero work for you?"

As a rule, you never want an order to show cause addressed to you to include the phrase "While the Court is within its power to summarily issue a fine and imprisonment"...

I'm not a lawyer either, but I'll give it a shot: There is no set period of years after which a law becomes presumptively constitutional. Judges may be more reluctant to overturn old laws, but it can certainly happen. As an example, think about the laws mandating racial segregation. What is often tr...

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is the executive-branch agency that Congress created to manage the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That would seem to be a rather limited set of responsibilities. But with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, as well as the stability of the mortgage mar...

Yeah, I'm digging my way back through Quatloos and falling back in love with Judge Rooke.

roadscholar wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 10:07 pm That sounds Native American. Am I close?

It's completely made up, so I suppose you're as close as you want to be.

No. One vice at a time, that's my motto.

Correct. These notices are the judge saying 'You didn't follow this rule, but I'm going to let it slide.'

Seems legit.

Quite welcome! If you go to that Center for Class Action Fairness site you can get some more details.

As the courts have often commented on, there's a clear conflict of interest when it comes to agreeing on attorney fees. The company being sued typically only cares about the total amount of the settlement; they have no financial reason to care how much goes to the class and how much goes to the atto...