Posted on 12/20/2011 8:22:26 PM PST by trumandogz
LA GRANGE, Texas (AP) — An attorney says a Texas jury has awarded the largest verdict he has ever heard of — $150 billion to the family of a man who died years after being set afire as an 8-year-old.
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But with Perry's Tort Reform in Texas, the defendant in this case will only have to come up with $150 billion.
Billion is the new million during the Error of Obama.
You know this has nothing at all to do with “tort reform”. This was a civil lawsuit against the criminal who actually lit the fire.
WHo/what was the defendant??
The defendant, Don Wilburn Collins, is currently imprisoned on an unrelated sexual assault charge.
BS Even Texans aren’t that crazy.
If the FedGov refuses to keep illegals out, and one fatally plows into your child while drunk, why can’t we sue the FedGov like THIS...?
Legally speaking, he is not the one who did it, he was never charged.
Oh sure, let me just go get my checkbook. What yall don’t have a few hundred billion lying around?
In Zimbabwe dollars or Weimar notes?
That sleepy town is not far from me. I spent a lot of happy days there in my childhood. LaGrange has (or used to have) a large German population. I don’t know if it still does.
LaGrange is also the home of Monument Hill, where the drawing of the black beans was held. It’s an interesting story, if anyone wants to do a search on Monument Hill.
It is also the home of Weikles’s bakery, where one can buy the best kolatches to be found in these parts.
I never knew they had such a court there, though—LOL!
And La Grange is best know for:
Rumour spreadin’ a-’round in that Texas town
‘bout that shack outside La Grange
and you know what I’m talkin’ about.
Just let me know if you wanna go
to that home out on the range.
They gotta lotta nice girls ah.
La Grange.
/johnny
There was also a very fine Steak House in LaGrange, but I can't think of the name of it right now—and I loved the Court House. My birth was recorded in that court house—(I'm sure someone will put a monument up any day day, commemorating that wonderful event 75 years ago--although I was actually born in Smithville).
A haw, haw, haw, haw,
{my fav band}
they should have awarded gold coins instead
And we'll waste more tax dollars when eventually a higher court will have to overturn this stupid “statement” simply to try and slow down the degradation of our laws.
Otherwise we on par to changing the black robes to clown costumes.
I saw the mother interviewed on tonight's news and it was all about her son and what was done to him.
The mother never addressed the monetary award. The man who burned him and who sexually assaulted him has never been charged with the crime...he is in the pen for another crime. That is why she sued him. He couldn't pay her $15,000.
Her son died last April.
Comprehende?
It's a stupid award because the guy has nothing.
Uh, it's a symbolic statement by the jury? That he should have been charged based on the evidence they've seen? And they wanted to draw attention to that injustice?
Sheesh. A hundred fifty billion to make the point, and people STILL don't get it.
Mam'selle, if you were a guy we'd know exactly what you meant!
≤}B^)
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