Rather than overpay for a ticket to “Lovers and Friends,” one could just go to “Friends and Lovers” in Prospect Heights and hear a DJ play all these late 90s hits without being forced to confront their own mortality by watching artists who’ve aged~25 years since the songs they performed were new and loved.  

re-read paragraph two. It appears that Michael may believe this is a PR stunt.

Are they cops or overpaid and overqualified security guards? Shoplifting and employee theft is also an expensive problem for businesses, yet somehow private business has found a way to address it without sucking up public resources for non-public purposes.

I live near the Myrtle-Bway Stop on the JMZ. One block away from the station, down Jefferson, there is someone selling massive amounts of heroin. Its so bad that sometimes, you walk down the block and its like navigating through a cloud of zombies in various states of nodding off. Yet, the only time I have ever seen a…

The threatened lawsuit is a textbook case of a strategic lawsuit against public participation. They are not permitted. The rest of what you said is irrelevant, even if you feel like its unfair.

Hes just being hyperbolic and hiding behind a shallow appeal to “logic” that really just attacks what his ignorant mind perceives as inconsistency. States have the power to write their own criminal laws and the citizens of those states elect legislators to do that. That the legislators of one state do not perfectly agr…

Is this with respect to Stallman’s “morally absurd” comment? I don’t know about your friend, but Stallman is just being hyperbolic. Its a tired rhetorical tactic that is far from persuasive. That the age of consent changes is different geographic areas is an inconsistency, at best, without any normative qualification.…

He may be getting owned by constituents everywhere he goes, but Johnson is still undefeated in the barber’s chair ...

The decision of when to file was likely made by her attorneys. If I was them, I would probably wait until after she was married. This appears calculated to do as much public harm to Brown as possible, which is certainly a tactic some employ. I do not think it provides leverage for settlement, but maybe they thought…

I’ve been at settlement conferences for commercial disputes where the judge has gone off the record, threatened somewhat unrelated criminal charges against one party as a mechanism to coerce settlement (some people might call that extortion), and then gone back on the record to continue the settlement conference.…

Herman Moore was pretty good. 

In Microsoft word for PC, you can make an em dash by placing two hyphens between the words and then hitting a space after the last letter. It will sorta auto-correct to an em dash.  A question I always have is wither the em dash needs spaces between the words it separates.

Oh ok. I thought you were talking about more “noble” practices where access to the courts is difficult. There certainly is not a dearth of securities litigation class-actions.

Insurers have two duties: the duty to defend the insured, which is broader than the duty to indemnify (cover the loss). There is a lot of space where the duty to defend exists but the duty to indemnify does not and that creates a pretty significant dispute. Additionally, the defense counsel might rely on the insurer,…

There are tons of companies that offer to loan Plaintiffs money against their potential recovery. A lot of them charge excessive interest. Think about that old JG Wentworth commercial.

I do not believe most litigation funds are targeting those types of litigation. I think more of it is like “Hey pension fund, I heard you might recover X as a result of this securities litigation that could last twelve years, why don’t I pay you 1/3X and you can enjoy that money now while I take the risk.”

A lot of Plaintiff’s firms need some form of financing to operate. A third-party providing that financing at a profit is not really the problem.  I believe there are some states that allow lawyers to loan their client funds, at interest, to be paid from their recovery. There are a whole host of problems that can arise…

The same conflict of interest you identified exists throughout litigation. Many defense attorneys are paid by the defendant’s insurance carrier, to some degree. That carrier’s interest is not always aligned with the Defendant. In addition, an attorney in a class action’s financial interests are often opposed to the…

I think litigation funds are loathsome, but they are really just the capitalist evolution of “its my money and I need it now” a la JG Wentworth. In this regard, I think you are making an incorrect assumption. The litigation funders are not creating law suits, its more like buying someone out of a long position at a…

I mean, even if the Democrats were the sole party behind slavery and every racist policy enacted in the history of this county and the Republicans staunchly opposed such decisions at every turn ... that’s still not an argument against creating a commission on reparations.  If anything, its evidence that reparations…