Berkeley Blog: Robert Reich America is embroiled in an immigration debate that goes far beyond President Obama’s executive order on undocumented immigrants. It goes to the heart of who “we” are. And it’s roiling communities across the nation. In early November, school officials in Orinda, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘legal thuggery’
December 4th, 2014 - 1:34 am § in Misc.
Robert Reich: How a Wealthy California Town Makes Sure No Poor Kids Attend Its ‘Public’ School
Did Officer Wilson Do The Right Thing?
Could Officer Wilson have avoided shooting Michael Brown? (based in part on the NY Times article and an article in Think Progress on how grand juries work) I also recommend this podcast at Slate . Darren Wilson told George Stephanopoulos that the answer to whether the officer had any other ch[...]
August 11th, 2014 - 9:58 am § in Misc.
When Lawyers Sell Out Their Clients
A federal judge made headlines last week by rejecting a $324.5 million settlement negotiated by attorneys for tech giants Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe, and 64,000 present and former employees who claimed they were underpaid by the firms as a result of a labor-market-rigging conspiracy. Lucasfil[...]
April 24th, 2014 - 10:50 pm § in Misc.
The Value of a JD
Lawyer With Six Figures Of Debt Forced To Work As Professional Babysitter Meet a nanny with a law degree — and the debt to show for it. Read more »[...]
April 8th, 2014 - 8:20 am § in Science
$9,000,000,000 Finding Against Lilly and Takeda
Jury finds that diabetes drug, Actos, causes bladder cancer. Assuming that the data are correct, Actos increased the risk of bladder cancer by three fold. The other issue here, as in all such cases, is the question of why we use the vastly expensive and over burdened court system, with lawyers gone[...]
March 24th, 2014 - 12:48 pm § in Misc.
Shysters: The law is what you can get away with
A Couple of Years Ago, the AP Conducted a Poll About Lawyers And Healthcare 54% want it more difficult to sue hospitals and doctors over malpractice, 32% opposed. 58% of Independents and 61% of Republicans want lawsuit limits This public perception arises not so much because of frivolous lawsuits in[...]
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[...]
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[...]