Don’t know why you’d put Chrono Trigger, which you can play right now for cheap on what seems like a half-dozen modern platforms, above something like Lufia 2 or Ogre Battle.
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His point was that climate policy should, in the year 2020 and beyond, prioritize the allocation of resources towards protecting people from the now-inevitable effects of climate change - “moving them to the high ground” - rather than chasing zero/negative emissions that, even if attainable, won’t matter if developing…
Yeah, the $700k bill came from state court, but this article is reporting on the end of the Federal case, which was apparently a different set of plaintiffs? I think the context for the Federal plaintiffs is a little different, because the holdouts rejected the settlement when they knew the case was literally hopeless…
FRCP 68(d).
It’s a very well-established rule. Plaintiffs who reject reasonable settlement offers and opt for trial are on the hook for the defendant’s legal fees if they lose or can’t get a judgment larger than the settlement offer.
I get that this woman is grieving but a Federal Court is not the place to do that.
There’s a lot of misinformation here about this rule in the comments, so I’ll post it.
FEDERAL RULE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE 68(d):
If the plaintiff rejects a reasonable settlement offer, goes to trial, and either loses or gets a judgment smaller than the settlement offer (in other words, fucking wastes everybody’s time), they’re on the hook for the defendant’s legal fees.
Well, I wouldn’t be THAT confident.
Man, Lucca really just can’t catch a break, huh?