[maggief]

“I think after a while the city may end up feeling like General Custer at Little Bighorn,” councilman Eugene Brown said.

“He looks around and, to paraphrase, says, ‘Where in the [heck] are all these lawyers coming from?’”

[Tijeras_Slim]

Durham has a $5 million liability policy

That ain't gonna cut it.

[Oberon]

Durham has a $5 million liability policy with The Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania with a $500,000 deductible.

I read that and thought "Wow, there's a drop in the proverbial bucket."

[snarks_when_bored]

Maybe each of the Duke 88 faculty members will donate a year's salary to the city to help it defray its litigation expenses...

Naaaaah.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

I hate it for the Durham County FReepers, but I hope these kid’s lawyers leave the city destitute.

[surely_you_jest]

Durham has a $5 million liability policy with The Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania with a $500,000 deductible.

** snicker **

[Joe 6-pack]

"Seligmann has retained Barry Scheck, a prominent New York City lawyer whose high profile clients include O.J. Simpson and British nanny Louise Woodard. Evans and Finnerty have hired Brendan Sullivan Jr. and Chris Manning of Washington D.C."

Isn't it about that time of year for Discovery Channel's Shark Week?

[ElkGroveDan]

Lacking any more funds, sounds like they are going to have to rename the city Evans-Finnerty-Seligman.

[Leofl]

This is about to get interesting!!!

I’m mixing up margaritas to watch this one unfold

[paudio]

Can the boys also sue Duke U? After all, the university cancelled the lacrosse program without any evidence. I believe they even did that before the case went on trial.

[PAR35]

I wonder if the policy is a wasting one - if the cost of defense is subtracted from the coverage amounts. If so, the insurers could spend the full $5 million defending the case.

[antiRepublicrat]

I really hope some of the attention of the lawyers will be directed at Nifong personally. Drain all of his assets and attach his retirement income, as one of the reasons he kept after the kids was to get reelected so he’d qualify for the fatter DA retirement pay.

[river rat]

In a SANE and JUST world, Durham would be rendered financially destitute for their insistent demanding of this OBVIOUS miscarriage of Justice and denial of CIVIL RIGHTS of the wrongly accused..
They reelected Nifong on the basis of his promise to prosecute the innocent...

Bad Actions DEMAND serious consequences....

Durham should be sued to the extent it can no longer support their racist African American population who DEMANDED this persecution of the Lacrosse players, on PURELY racist grounds.

One other group who CLEARLY need their asses and pocketbooks kicked is the Duke Lynch Mob of 88 and the Duke President...
Both have been protected by the families’s settlement with DUKE.

I wonder how the donating Alumni feel about their donations going to protect the President and the 88 from the consequences of THEIR actions?

[SmoothTalker]

Here is one thing that bothers me about the whole thing. These families had money to hire great lawyers and their was big time media attention paid to this case. How many average Joe’s with a public defender and no national scrutiny to you think Nifong railroaded in his career?

[Aruchu]

I’m of two minds on this, Obvisously the boys deserve compensation for the harasment they went through. On the other hand every cent that they and the lawyers get will be tax payers money. But the voters there elected that fool nifong, I manly feel sorry for the ones who didn’t vote for him but are now going to get stuck paying the bill.

[bajabaja]

The logic of the insurer is to halt a public investigation of a public wrong so that the financial damages will be more easily limited. So a private insurer (which knowingly insured a public entity) has the power to stop (or suggest) that a public investigation be HALTED? THAT IN ITSELF is a denial of civil rights. Disgust. Utter Disgust. Don’t these folks learn anything? Ever?

[Samwise]

OK. So sue the freaking insurance company for interfering with an ongoing criminal investigation, civil rights violations, etc., etc., etc.

[TASMANIANRED]

Deserve every second of it..

[longtermmemmory]

I think it would be cheeper for the insurance carrier to “tender the policy limits” and be done with the case.

[goldstategop]

Well... they rushed to judge those kids guilty despite the absence of evidence. What can one say? Mt view is Durham needs to pony up the cash.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus