Thudfactor is just thrilled with MCI’s telemarketers.
This is a good example why it should be made easy for us to take these folks to court and collect damages. And it is a good example why you should be able to call your local police, complain about harassment and trespassing, and have them actually do something about it.
A Do Not Call List should not be required.
Head over to Power Phillips, P.C., home of the Bitches from Hell Reporter, for your dose of humor. Every page I’ve looked at so far has generated a chuckle. I’m going to keep the link handy for those times I need to quickly defuse a sour mood.
Via Stephan Kinsella at LewRockwell.com.
This is basic stuff for lawyers but not a lawyer folk might wonder: what’s a transactional lawyer? Victor Fleischer at A Taxing Blog tells us a bit about transactional lawyers here and also teaches a course:
The goal of the course is to talk about what transactional lawyers do. (Unlike most law school courses, which teach you what appellate litigators do.)
In the first part of the course, we look at the lawyer’s role in identifying and managing business risks, or what Prof Ron Gilson calls “Transaction Cost Engineering.”
Every deal has information problems and behavior problems, and deal lawyers spend most of their time identifying these risks and allocating them (often, but not always, to the most efficient risk bearer) through private, contractual solutions.
I’m with Julian Sanchez on this:
The problem is that the law has no problem with letting a patient die, that is, with removing a feeding tube and letting her starve, but it does object to euthanasia by way of, say, a relatively quick and painless lethal injection.
He makes a case that any distinction between the two does not exist.
From the Connecticut Law Tribune via Today’s Legal News
Vice President Richard Cheney may be added to the list of defendants in Dallas accounting fraud cases, if Colchester, Conn.-based Scott & Scott prevails in its federal court bid to overturn a pending $6 million settlement….
During that period, both Cheney and his successor CEO David Lesar shared responsibility, but only Lesar was named as a defendant in the lawsuit. Neil Rothstein, a Pennsylvania-based partner in Scott & Scott, said Richard Schiffrin did not name Cheney as a defendant, despite liability exposure, because it would be “inappropriate” to do so during the war on Iraq.
Somebody please help me understand why this was inappropriate.