The extraordinary exchange between Judge Jack and trial lawyer Richard Laminack is reprinted in today's Journal as an op-ed.
1 posted on
08/31/2005 5:27:59 AM PDT by
OESY
To: OESY
This should be front page news.
I live around asbestos all my life and so did many others- with no ill effects.
But billions were spent on eradicating the 'problem' and buildings were demolished for having asbestos (one of the best insulators)
2 posted on
08/31/2005 5:32:49 AM PDT by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
To: OESY
The tort system is just a cow to be milked. Lawyers just know how to squeeze the teat.
3 posted on
08/31/2005 5:34:19 AM PDT by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: OESY
This is a case where the Lawyers put profit before people. We all paid the bill for these phoney claims, while the lawyers got filthy rich. Throw 'em in the pen with Mr Ebbers.
To: OESY; zot; Interesting Times
It looks like the claims of false lawsuits are true and thus a reason for the federal legislation limiting abestos liability.
9 posted on
08/31/2005 5:48:03 AM PDT by
GreyFriar
(3rd Armored Division -- Spearhead)
To: OESY
"held in this courtroom until they are replaced."...
wtf?
Have they no jail cells?
12 posted on
08/31/2005 5:53:44 AM PDT by
funkywbr
To: xsmommy
I saw this First thing this morning and LMFAO...
16 posted on
08/31/2005 6:39:50 AM PDT by
hobbes1
(Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you dont have to...." ;)
To: OESY
I always said that that there was nothing wrong with my sister having her baby sleep in fireproof asbestos pajama things.
20 posted on
08/31/2005 6:57:15 AM PDT by
BikerNYC
To: OESY
Dixy Lee Ray exposed this lawyer money scam in her book
Enviromental Overkill. Money. It's all about money.
23 posted on
08/31/2005 7:26:48 AM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
(We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
To: OESY
"So imagine Judge Jack's surprise to discover at a hearing last Monday that Houston attorney Scott Hooper -- one of several tort lawyers who brought the claims -- had removed more than 1,300 X-rays from a court depository."When they resort to pulling a Sandy Berger you know they are in deep doo-doo.
24 posted on
08/31/2005 7:29:23 AM PDT by
hometoroost
(TSA = Thousands Standing Around)
To: OESY
The extraordinary exchange between Judge Jack and trial lawyer Richard Laminack is reprinted in today's Journal as an op-ed. I saw that! The headline was "Jack the Ripper"! LOL! That judge is terrific!
26 posted on
08/31/2005 7:35:25 AM PDT by
maryz
To: OESY
"Back in June, federal Judge Janis Graham Jack disparaged nearly all of 10,000 claims for the rare lung disease as having been 'manufactured for money.' She also told the lawyers involved that federal prosecutors wanted access to the documents and X-rays surrounding this "fraud.'""The rare lung disease" being discussed here, though, is silicosis, not asbestosis.
That should have been a key point in your post, don't you think?
32 posted on
08/31/2005 10:02:55 AM PDT by
Redbob
To: OESY
""In the future, the Court would like Mr. Hooper to form a closer relationship with the law."LOL!
(But what are the odds of that?)
34 posted on
08/31/2005 10:17:26 AM PDT by
Redbob
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