Except for the part where one set of plaintiffs lost after a jury trial, and their case wasn’t dismissed. Oh, there’s also the part where Colorado law imposes a duty on landowners to take reasonable measures to protect customers from criminal acts on their premises.

What, exactly, is the defining point between pursuing a claim for negligence, and “cashing in” on the deaths or injuries of family members?

I realize that in some parts of the country, lawyers may seek out clients and push them in to litigation. That’s not really how we roll in Colorado. We tend to be resistant to filing lawsuits.

Nobody has made any decisions. As far as I can tell, the article says that they’re seeking $700k. The judge can still tell them to pound sand.

That’s a funny question.

The article is misleading.

Eh. Most of the neck is soft tissue, so a sharp knife will get you a long way toward done. Really, the hard part comes when you get to the vertebrae. If you don’t start you cut right, you’ll end up missing the gap between them. Then you end up with something ragged and ugly, like the first time you tried to split a…

But can you trust her to ask whether the customer would like fries and correctly convey that information?

To add to this, if the creator and the infringer were actually working together, then the infringer would have a good defense: implied license. But if they aren’t, hen the infringer has to try for fair use. Mans an affirmative defense, fair use is something the jury decides during the trial. That means the infringer…

That’s just not true. You’ve conflated trademark law (where failure to protect your trademark can result in a loss of protection), with copyright, which does not have the same rule. If you’re going to assert otherwise, please provide a citation to a case or some provision of title 17 of the US code.

You reminded me of a book: Snow Crash.

Thank you.

Did I not clearly state that I think abusers should be arrested, charged, and jailed when they violate restraining orders? Because I’m pretty sure I started a paragraph in that post with a sentence that starts “Ideally....” I also think I said something about bond being revoked.

I don’t blame the victims. I was simply noting the dynamics that I observed while doing criminal defense work. I don’t do that kind of work anymore.

You know, you’ve been getting progressively more abusive to me as the day has gone on while I’ve been trying to de-escalate the conversation.

I’m looking at a civil rights case right now that involves some of these issues. I’m not going to tell you that the cops are blameless in these cases. I’m also not going to say that all cops or even most cops are abusers or that they go out of their way to avoid arresting abusers who violate protective orders. I think…

Whoa. Are you saying that they didn’t do any of that?

Or perhaps this guy didn’t advertise his address. They can’t serve a restraining order if they don’t know where you live. Moreover, they can’t show up to arrest you if they don’t have a good address. If he’s couch-surfing and unemployed, they might not know where to get him.

I read that “Landmines save lives.” I was so very confused.

That’s why the first thing that went under there was a claymore mine.