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  1. Yet doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
  2. It wont be obvious to some, but that statement quoted above is not a definition, it's some equally ignorant assclown asking about the usage of "to be reckoned with." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2010_January_22
  3. Little wastoid was a "cinematographer" for Benny Johnson. His education ends at Souls Harbor Christian Academy in Floriduh. It has an enrollment of 92 students from K to 12 and is a ministry of a pentecostal (tongues) church of the same name. Absolute definition of mediocre, or worse, white guy.
  4. Sooo, does this mean he lost his job to someone "behind him"? Or was he told to git?
  5. Well, in the first instance, it is probably a Hawaiian criminal violation.
  6. Yes, and almost all NDA's yield, by their terms or by policy, to giving truthful testimony in court proceedings.
  7. So much of a lawdog's daily work is tedious and/or mindless. It demands some kind of break or you'll go insane.
  8. One thing you're hung up on I think is medical-type definitions of "injury." Legally speaking (take the many standing cases we've seen in constitutional litigation), "injury" is synonymous with "damage." In civil cases, the injury is often monetary, only, such as in a breach of contract. Take simple, common-law assault. The injury there is threatened "offensive touching." For battery, it's actual offensive touching. No medical injury required in either case. The touching makes it "bodily," as opposed to "touching your stuff"/Francis, which is not actionable as assault or battery. But then statutes have come into play changing stuff around from the common law, renaming battery as assault with touching, etc. The Texas Penal Code provides "Bodily injury" means physical pain, illness, or any impairment of physical condition. So it just has to hurt a little, beyond being merely offensive. It further provides "Serious bodily injury" means bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes death, serious permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ." So, earlier, when I said "requires medical treatment," that was probably a more common-law tort definition of serious bodily injury. But anything that requires medical attention very likely creates a substantial risk of . . . " Otherwise, why seek medical treatment? That doesn't mean you can go to a doctor for any old ouchie or hypochondriac condition and make it serious bodily injury, but the nature of most medical treatment is to avoid it becoming a bigger deal by infection, failure to heal, etc.
  9. Well, black folks have a quite reasonable distrust of the legal system for historically factual reasons.
  10. So, MIL with some dementia had a credit card. She kept getting charges on it that she didn't understand or remember and was forgetting to make monthly payments. Also, at some point, her ne'er do well daughter and grandchildren had got hold of the number and put it in their phones. Long story short, she wound up racking up about $5000 in charges that the card co contended were authorized and we contended were fraudulent, because a) permission to use revoked and b) card company didn't cancel the card when told to do so. So, this past year they gave her a forgiveness of debt 1099 of not quite the $5k. She has no assets, but about $3000/month in SS and a pension, but assisted living bill of more than $5k/month, which I make up the difference on. She normally doesn't pay tax or file a return because her income is just below the threshold. But, this 1099 thing will put her over. It's a defense to forgiveness of debt income that you were insolvent when incurred. From a balance sheet standpoint, she is insolvent. From an income statement standpoint, it depends on what day of the month it is, that is, for some days between the time she gets her SS and pension, she has some money, but it is "spoken for" by her rent, and then some. I do leave a couple hundred dollar cushion in there, so she's "solvent" to that extent. Anyone have any experience or advice on this scenario?
  11. That's more or less what it would take, yes. From what I have read about knife fighting, trying to stab someone through the heart through the rib cage is a very low-percentage deal. The ridbs and sternum are highly likely to deflect the blade or cause it to get hung up. For that reason, the military teaches going under the rib cage for the lungs, liver, spleen and maybe heart, or even trying for other arteries like the carotid, femoral or brachial. That's partly due to body armor and other military gear can make it even more difficult to "stab the heart," but it's difficult either way. So, unless Melo was a trained knife fighter, he was pretty extraordinarily unlucky to deliver a fatal stab. That factoid is probably not going to help him any, though.
  12. Under certain circumstances, I suppose you could pull a knife in a defensive way and then get tackled or grabbed by the victim, or an intervenor, and thereby actually get lucky/unlucky and hit an artery causing exsanguination. And that might successfully convince a jury that you lacked the intent, and/or that it was self-defense. But, if you get in any way offensive with that knife, that is legally sufficient to prove the intent necessary. Due to the nature of appeal of jury verdicts, it basically boils down to whatever you can convince the jury of. You're not going to get a court to instruct them much beyond what the statute says (that is that any particular conduct with a knife that results in death either proves or negates the intent). Nor will you get an appellate court to reverse on intent under either (offensive knife vs. defensive knife) set of facts.
  13. Nah, he's an OG, been around off and on here and elsewhere. Was a known accomplice of YGIFs in the past. Something relatively recent, COVID I believe, broke his brain.
  14. If 350USD it's reasonable, if 350CAD, it's cheap. Canadian lawyers, by and large, don't get the rates US lawyers do.
  15. In most cases, reasonably easy for a seasoned lawyer to gain admission to another state's bar. Also true of PE licenses? I might think easier in most cases.
  16. That guy is an absolute fucking moron. Is he a Mennonite or just a mongoloid or both? Any relation to Jeff?
  17. And a couple of bottles of whale juice to wash it down with.
  18. Well, given their experience, it would seem that they certainly know how to approach these things. I note that the suit is for defamation, not for malicious prosecution, which usually can't be pursued until termination of proceedings entirely in the defendant's favor, but is something you see from time to time from certain types of assholes.
  19. Wrong link, but here's another one.https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5251388-justice-department-maine-transgender-womens-sports/ On the one hand, it might have been a small stretch for the Biden Administration to hold that Title IX mandates trans athletes participating in other than birth sex sports. On the other, I think it's a massive stretch that Title IX prevents their participation. Bondi is a fucking clown. She added that the DOJ would also seek to have athletic titles won by transgender students in Maine revoked and “returned” to the second-place finishers, whom Bondi said were the rightful winners. The department is also considering whether to retroactively pull funding received by Maine “for not complying in the past.”
  20. Yeah, little or no right to counsel. No right to confront witnesses. Loose rules of evidence. Burden is almost always on the alien. So on and so forth.
  21. THAT actually doesn't surprise me. But it does seem like a lot of immigrants with lawful status really are here legally at the sufferance of the US. Kinda like probation.
  22. His attorneys seem pretty legit. https://nmllplaw.com/athletes-coaches/
  23. Did anyone ask him how Elmo and Petey Thiel got rich despite being autistic?
  24. Ever looked at most habeas opinions? Granted, the district court that hears any habeas petition is likely to be highly pissed at the administration. I think his proceeding is styled habeas, so it's probably Xinis. But it's a civil thing, not a criminal thing. The Immigration courts provide due process most of the time. Those are just examples of what works for civil due process in the immigration context. It ain't all it's cracked up to be outside of criminal court.
  25. I'm not talking about Fox viewers. I'm talking about the lesser numbskulls that swung the election because economy, immigration, and letting trans play on girls teams.
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