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  1. I thought this guy would be one of the saner ones, but he's a complete piece of shit.
  2. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-use-spending-bill-empower-sue-phone-records-searches-rcna243199
  3. Clearly some poor dildo had to explain to Teh Donald why rare earth materials were so valuable and had to dumb it down to "magnets."
  4. Actually, a petition should be filled with provable facts and details. A civil plaintiff's principle advantage in litigation is to marshal its facts and legal theories long before filing the petition. Sometimes that is harder to do than other times because of the availability of public facts, but you should do your damnedest. Some attorneys, usually bad ones, don't bother with any of this. That said, it is also going to be written or spun in the most positive way for the plaintiff. Sometimes that's done a bit beyond what the facts will bear. But, legal reporting is so bad, I would wait to actually read the petition before attempting to conclude anything.
  5. Plaintiffs' residence is generally irrelevant in venue. Generally speaking and in most cases, you have to go where a defendant resides.
  6. In that intra-family litigation a few years back, it was the local Eastlands against a sibling that's a bigshot estate attorney in Houston. Seemed to be a lot of home cooking in that one. And they don't have to drag em through the mud, precisely, but you can probably assume the locals will get substantial benefit of the doubt.
  7. Oh yeah, if it's flat wrong, it has to be transferred, but if it's just opportunistic, it's discretionary. That would require someone to reside in Travis County. You are correct, sir. And they claim a homestead exemption. Still, transfer motions can be made and probably will be.
  8. Recall that venue as to one defendant is good for all defendants and I am guessing one or more of the defendants resides in Travis County. But it's not immediately clear to me who. Otherwise, it could be transferred to Travis County under 15.063 on the notion that a fair trial can't be had in Kerr County. So, we know Mikal Watts is defending, any idea who the plaintiffs lawyers are?
  9. Wood is actually a pretty good material for a boat/ship. In a lot of respects, better than steel.
  10. This Reding pseudo vato is a complete clown. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article300526204.html
  11. I probably meant McCabe.
  12. Not to mention he's going to owe all those illegal tariffs back to the payors. So this is going to be a double-hit.
  13. At some point, it seems that a sitting President who uses the civil justice system should waive immunity, at least from civil suits. If the sonofabitch has time to write dirty letters and sue, he can sure as fuck be sued.
  14. Yeah, that's an interesting phenomenon, the battering effect of the waves is worse, but the relatively short period means a ship is less likely to get broken between them. Also kind of interesting, the freshwater environment means the ships last a lot longer, so there were riveted hulls and steam propulsion long past their obsolescence in oceangoing vessels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_St._Marys_Challenger
  15. Still takes four votes to grant cert.
  16. Ugh. Unfortunately, UK defamation laws are considerably more liberal than US because there's no First Amendment and associated public figure/actual malice standard. Still, I'm not sure their laws will "reach" this. The loser pays attorneys fees, though.
  17. Well, it's not like our base is going to vote Republican. It is probably going to be tough on incumbent Ds, though.
  18. Unfortunately, that was procedurally a shitty case to overturn Obergefell. I wouldn't take this as much of a victory. That said, fuck Kim Davis in her goatse ass.
  19. I guess maybe we should point out that a lot of US iron ore was mined in northern Minnesota and Michigan. And that ore was put to use in steelmaking plants in Detroit and Ohio, and places like Gary, Indiana. So, even though they are inland lakes, the routes sailed by the ships were pretty akin to oceangoing routes.
  20. Some fun factoids. "Lakers" were frequently owned as an investment by insurance companies. Edmund Fitzgerald was an insurance executive. It's kind of fascinating to me that Great Lakes shipping developed its own kinds of vessels for bulk transport, mainly iron ore, but also grain. One of the more interesting variants of a lake freighter was the "whaleback."
  21. A couple of tbsp of ACV probably can't do much harm, but probably don't swill it around in your mouth very long. I'm going to guess that it's less pharmacologically active than ivermectin, so less potential to do harm or have unintended side effects. But eating many food substances in regular quantities can have unintended effects. But, it does crack me up when the health nuts claim that naturally occurring (chemical) substances aren't "chemicals." It's all chemicals, all the way down. It does seem, though, that synthesized or refined chemicals can be more dangerous than naturally occurring counterparts.
  22. Powell was only convicted of state offenses, so pardon doesn't reach her. I don't think Giuliani was convicted of anything, but was indicted on a few state crimes, including that Georgia fiasco.
  23. The only thing that might justify this is they think Rs are going to have to eat healthcare cuts more explicitly than if it is rolled up in the shutdown.
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