Ok, this comment suggests you really have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re asking if pro bono work is unethical? Seriously?

You’re comparing work comp litigation to a civil rights case being appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States?

2,000 hours through initial trial, appeals, settlement negotiations, etc. That’s not that high. You have to consider that there is probably 15-20 lawyers who had billable hours on this case just on the winning side.

If this is all you had, why even write an article? If there isn’t more to the transgressions of this award show than ‘someone who knows someone who maybe did a bad thing no one ever proved’ presented an award, then they aren’t doing such a bad job. I didn’t see Mel Gibson or Michael Richards or Harvey Weinstein or any…

It’s fairly common in other sensitive areas of the federal government, too, including parts of the FBI and the whole of the NSA and the CIA.

I live here because most other people don’t and I’m not a big fan of people.

And did he take down the boulders?

Insurance companies generally don’t take jury trial risks.

This is actually great. A guy quotes a code saying that what was described in the article (one guy admitting to making false reports to 911) is a crime in D.C. You respond by asserting (in as dickish a way possible, congrats) that it would never, ever hold up in court because it would be impossible to prove. The OP…

“holy fuck” the guy admitted he calls in ‘suspicious activity’ as a ruse to get the police to respond to people just riding a bike. So, holy fuck, there is plenty of evidence (in this case) to get the guy a citation or fine or worse that will stick if challenged.

Which wouldn’t actually be that hard, since the douchebag wrote a post on the Internet admitting to the crime.

Three times a week, every week, for her whole life? What??

Maybe there is something there about the behavior of the plus-sized market segment as it relates to fashion clothing - do they buy fashion clothing in the same way, for the same purposes or at the same rates as the current target market? Is this a ‘if you build it they will come’ (they don’t buy fashion because no one…

These companies are businesses, not social services or rights organizations. Just like any business, especially new ones, they need to calibrate their market strategy to a demographic that will generate revenue and margin. A pure play plus-size fashion house might be a profitable niche, but for a brand aiming to be…

stimulants and depressants... I feel like you’re basically propelling yourself on a medication seesaw.

To the person who “self diagnoses 20mg” when he/she feels like it, you do not understand how these drugs work. The same is true for the person who stops taking Zoloft for a few days and then realizes how much he/she needs it.

They could have just settled at revoking her license, rather than charging her in criminal court and granting bail with electronic monitoring (as if she’s a flight risk for cruising across the Mexican border in a truck full of terriers).

She should be sentenced to retirement. Nothing more than that would be appropriate.

I don’t see a lot of people hating it because it doesn’t fit in some neat category. They hate it because it isn’t interesting, it isn’t compelling, it isn’t any good.

I think it was left intentionally bereft of ‘life’, unlike the ME cantina or Maz Kanata’s lair etc. The message was that these were people profiting off of the despair of the rest of the galaxy, whooping it up in a party while hope died. It wasn’t meant to be an absorbing, interesting place you’d always thereafter…