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  1. How do you win an ALR? Curiosity. Fun fact. I had an argument at the Texas Supreme Court some years back. The case in front of me raised the issue whether the ALR/whole revocation scheme violated due process. Sub issues were whether a DL was a sufficient right to merit due process protection and whether the appeal provided for in the statute properly led to the Supreme Court. The guy arguing it was a super-laid-back criminal defense lawyer that was pretty casual about the whole thing, but also pretty effective.
  2. I'm sure it did, but they're going to try to claim he acted unilaterally, without specific orders. Either way, it would seem he's on the hook, with or without Whisky Pete.
  3. Strange that they could find someone that could be as big a hack as Ronny Jackson.
  4. Also recall that in the first or second strike, there were survivors and no evidence of criminality. They were released "into the wild" never to be seen again. Can't have them giving evidence that they were fishermen or whatever.
  5. Note that it omits cranial imaging. The results there would be "his head is full of fuck."
  6. They were legal because he said they were, duh.
  7. Well, frankly, if he is a flag officer of the United States Navy that didn't at the least question these orders in the first place, he may deserve what he gets. ADM Holsey foreshadowed this shit. Maybe using SOC was an end-around Southcom.
  8. Ok, so these boats are targeted with some kind of missile, which would seem to be drone-launched, aircraft-launched, or surface-launched. Given current "proclivities, I'd assume an AGM-114 Hellfire launched from a Predator or Reaper drone. What on earth does any SEAL team have to do with this? Or JSOC? The drones could be launched from dang near anywhere, maybe likely a surface vessel in this instance, and controlled from really anywhere?
  9. Yeah, my Dad couldn't hear shit past his 50s or so thanks to thousands of rounds of 5 inch guns, but he could hear rattles in the car and a fan bearing on the AC outside from in the house.
  10. Use of any SEAL team to drone strike rafts seems very unlikely, except maybe using a laser designator for targets, but I don't think that's necessary. I tend to think it's actually CIA paramilitaries doing these. Keeps things out of the military chain of command, and I think the CIA can be easily manipulated into doing unlawful shit, if they're not flat inclined to do it.
  11. Good points. I was thinking about a "raiding" cause of action, ie raiding employees. I suppose those causes of action are circumscribed for the reasons you cite. I do know that "anti raiding" contractual provisions are thought to be unenforceable as restraints of trade. And yeah, I don't know if Texas is an outlier on employee/fiduciary duty or more getting in line with everyone else. In any event, in Texas, you have a duty not to undermine your employer for your own purposes, even if that's not a "fiduciary duty." In the pure business context, most of this shit devolves into trade secrets, ie the departing employees are taking trade secrets/confidential information. You could probably devise such a cause of action (playbook, play scripts and so on), but it is certainly uncommon.
  12. I wouldn't call last year's OL great except by comparison to this years. Especially in run blocking. If the greatest/best coaches are constantly tinkering to make the good great, OL was one of those things that deserved tinkering after last year. Instead we got what we got. And it nearly undid the entire offense.
  13. Regarding tortious interference, it would be a spite suit, depending on assistant contracts. If they're like most schools, they're on one-year contracts, so they probably couldn't prove much in the way of damages because there's little expectation of entitlement to their services beyond the existing contract. Also, without their hiring coach at the top, their services aren't terribly valuable. But they could fuzz up an argument maybe that a new coach would have wanted the choice to renew their contracts. Then again, every time a new coach is hired away, their contract is "interfered with" by the hiring school and same with any assistants he brings with him. The breach of fiduciary/employee duty would probably just generate cause for firing. But that would require him to be fired before he resigns, most likely. Probably all this would do is make a mess and make UM a less attractive employer. And what they can't ultimately do is force him to stay at Ole Miss to complete his contract. This kind of thing could come up in every hiring scenario, although it is somewhat unusual for the coach to "announce" or "threaten" like Kiffin and I suppose some damages could result from that, taking it out of the usual scenario where no one uses.
  14. Well, let's see, making plans to hire/negotiating with those still under contract might be considered a breach of fiduciary duty, or the duty owed an employee to employer. And potentially also tortious interference with contract, once no longer employed.
  15. I bet she's a total whore.
  16. He's gonna blow the Jesus nut right off that Huey.
  17. Damn, hate to see the Plimsoll line on that one.
  18. And he was the starting safety for the Legal Eagles. Wonder if my roommate the starting QB has ever mentioned that in public.
  19. His "six books" are all self-published and all about winning injury cases. They range from 16 to 66 pages. Most have no reviews. Two have one star: This is more of a pamphlet on why you should hire their lawfirm. In the 58 pages, there is probably 4 pages of content. Most of the information is repeated several times, and 90% is geared toward getting injured workers to hire their firm. If you want to hire them great. But just google the "author's" name and read about him there. If you are looking for information there are much better resources. This may be the worst $20 I have spent on a book. https://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Store-Brian-Beckcom/s?rh=n%3A133140011%2Cp_27%3ABrian%2BBeckcom
  20. Guy's bio is one of the most self-aggrandizing things I have ever seen. https://www.vbattorneys.com/attorneys/brian-beckcom/ Brian Beckcom is one of the leading lawyers of his generation . . . . Trial lawyers tend to be world-class egotists, but geezus criminy.
  21. One curious thing about addiction. The mindset that seems to accompany substance abuse is one of something I call "inward-dwellingness," a peculiar form of selfishness or self-centeredness. It doesn't always or even usually manifest itself in vanity or attention-seeking (but it surely can). Oftentimes, it's something of the opposite, a crippling insecurity and feeling that everything negative is somehow your fault (but also realizing that insecurity can manifest itself in self-aggrandizement). A sizable part of recovery from addiction is "right-sizing" one's ego and recognizing that it's not all about you, neither the good nor the bad. I've seen some stuff where Kiffin makes the right noises about recovery. But this kind of stuff makes me wonder if he's headed for a big crash. We're all subject to being bullshat by these guys, but Sark seems to live his recovery to a greater extent than Kiffin.
  22. The best part of that scene is the prelude, with Penn buying a half-dozen cokes out of the machine.
  23. He used to be. Sporting a bit of a gut now. I suppose he'll lose it pretty quick.
  24. I don't believe hiring Jimbo would relieve eaTme of a single penny of their obligation to Jimbo. And, I am not suggesting anyone hire him, but he does somewhat expose the fallacy of the "proven winner."
  25. Yeah a lot of people keep thinking this $21M revenue share cap is a spending cap on all sources. The revenue share is all-new (well, bags under prior systems notwithstanding) and yes, it's capped. NIL is not capped.
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