PREACH! Jezebel gets this so wrong. It seems like the system might have worked for the student in this case and maybe, just maybe the student survivor is happy with the outcome.

Privacy goes both ways and I think activists need to stop having tunnel vision when it comes to issues of privacy and freedom of expression. Those same laws that prevent them from doxxing rapists found guilty in the school system, also protect the privacy of victims, and you can’t have one without the other. And in…

That’s how I feel about it: she filed a confidential complaint probably to avoid the very media circus that has now enveloped her anyway. It’s amazing how often the activists and supporters don’t ever actually bother to check with the victim before speaking on her behalf.

There may be ways to make it work, but it is questionable enough that most firms stay away from it. My firm (amlaw 100) has never engaged in such an arrangement.

my assumption too. Or a smaller (10%) cut off the award. Hourly plus 30-40% seems like pretty extreme gouging.

I was going to say this exact thing.

I should have qualified all this with a “in my state at least,” up front.

But yeah, in my state at least, the fact of the conviction establishes the conduct if a trial happened.

With a plain-jane guilty plea, you have to make certain admissions on the record, to establish the basis for the plea. So you have to tell the…

Til you’re blue in the face! Or until they’ve all backed away slowly far enough that they can no longer hear you (god, chalkies can’t deal with hearing that we DO have it better)

A bullshit plea, which is why it isn’t allowed in several states.

I’m picking up what you’re putting down. It’s just a fine line. Talking to whites about racism, I personally don’t see a problem. I’m gay and appreciate straight allies. A lot of gays do not want straights involved.

I like Bernie. That said, hard-core Bernie supporters are some of the most delusional people I’ve ever encountered.

So is France going to give back all the shit they stole and kept from all the African and Caribbean nations they colonized or nah?

Cops don’t even know what laws they uphold. The average Jez commentor has a firmer grasp on the fine details of law than the average LAPD officer.

Preach. I must go do stuff! The only reason I care about anything, period, is so that I can afford to do fun stuff that I want to do. Not have. Do.

I’m totally in camp 1. I like cheap material things but dayumn do I like traveling, and that shit is expensive. I will never buy a house, but at least I’ll have seen the world and eaten all the food!

My favorite part: more Millennials are “choosing” to live with their parents! Nope, we had to move back in with our parents after you assholes caused a recession by crashing the financial system.

Your description of Goldman Sachs executives crying into their lattes warmed my cold heart on this dreary March day :)

“What the hell does the picture have to do with the story, though”

Ask questions, dare to disagree, don’t let others shout you down, don’t agree with the consensus if the consensus is wrong. I was once called a fascist for defending Ayaan Hirsi Ali, I survived. I didn’t grow tentacles or sprout Trump hair from the top of my head as a consequence. I would defend her again, she’s a…

No. It really doesn’t. It’s a distraction and derailing of the article above.