Read the pitiful efforts by the Boston Globe to argue that Brady is innocent until proven guilty. The Globe might have some basis for this IF someone were proposing criminal prosecution. The standards for civil law, however, is the opposite. The thugs from Boston would need to ‘splain all [...]
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May 7th, 2015 - 11:20 am § in The Ave Scene
ATHLETES AS THUGS!: What happens if a fan files a CIVIL suit for damages against the Effin Pats?
March 20th, 2014 - 7:28 am § in Hypocrisy
Legal Thuggery” Threatograms
Legal Thuggery, or Law as Transaction Cost Posted on January 17th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer (Via JZ) BoingBoing has a neat, infuriating post about a ridiculous takedown threat they received over a post about autism. The threat-0-gram is from The Academic Advantage, by way of their personal injury lega[...]
March 11th, 2014 - 12:47 pm § in Misc.
LEGAL THUGGERY
Legal Thuggery used to block honest experts, Say Montana Supremes By Paul Davies (extracted) Gibson Dunn’s “use of the judicial system amounts to legal thuggery,” the state Supreme Court said. The court found that the firm, which employs about 800 lawyers, acted with a “high level of m[...]
February 4th, 2014 - 3:24 am § in Misc.
Legal Thuggery at The University: Ninth Circuit Rues Against WSU!
Ninth Circuit Reaffirms Free-Speech Rights for Professors Court Implicitly Rejects WSU’s Argument that “Professional Speech” Does Not Deserve Protection The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals this week denied a second appeal from four Washington State University administrators [...]
February 3rd, 2014 - 10:44 am § in Misc.
Legal Thuggery: The NFL and Copyright Claims
A Relative of Mine Offered to Sell Me a Tape of the Superbowl: Should I report him to the FBI? No. Corporate lawyers use thuggery to restrict use of copyright materials. The law does not support them, but who has the money to sue the NFL? This same relative, oddly, is part of the effort [&hell[...]
Nixon’s crimes
Most people just remember the Watergate break-in, if anything at all. Many weren’t even born yet. But Richard Nixon’s crimes went far beyond the break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in the Watergate complex (photo below) and the coverup that followed. He kep[...]
March 20th, 2022 - 1:39 pm § in Racism
Yet another black man is shot by rogue police
“A Black man in New Jersey grabbing iced tea from a car was shot and paralyzed by plain-clothed officers last month,” NBC News reported on March 18, 2022 (story here). Jajuan R. Henderson, 29, was inside the car, which was parallel-parked outside his Trenton home, shortly after midnight on F[...]
Will Red America secede?
In this essay, a liberal journalist asks a conservative intellectual probing questions about whether America has a future. I’ll start with my own caveat: No one, not even the smartest and best educated among us, knows the future with certainty. We who read about history quickly realize that ev[...]
Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s cautionary tale ahead of the 2020 presidential election
by Mark Krasovic, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Rutgers University Newark 8/10/2020 That November, voters in several cities saw posters at polling places printed in bright red letters. “WARNING,” they read. “This area is being patrolled by the National Ballot Security[...]
Legal Thuggery in South Carolina
Attorney who extorted $1 million from clients gets 63 months in prison, Claims Bad Heart as Defense This horrific story of attorney abuse is all too typical of the real world where attorneys get away with thuggery by making threats. How many of you have received threats from an attorney claiming th[...]