Circumcision Case to Proceed to Trial

Mens News Daily ^ | 8/1/02

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Yes, me too. It was done to me when I was 10 and I sure didn't like it.

[L.N. Smithee]

I think I'm going to sue my parents for having my ears pierced when I was eleven. I was still a minor.

No, don't sue your parents. Sue the professional who pierced your ears, who should have known better than to let your parents make decisions regarding their own minor child.

[SupplySider]

I missed out on the tobacco lawsuits, don't qualify for the fast food case... at last, I have a ticket in the legal lottery! I am suddenly feeling such emotional pain over my loss! Of course it was my parents, not the doctor, who were responsible for this butchery, but I guess I will keep quiet on that point.

[SteamshipTime]

I know how you feel. But my dad explained that my as-born condition would damage the self-esteem of my peers when I went on to glory in team sports. Thus, he ordered the doctor to circumsize me, for the greater good.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Can a wife sue her inlaws for not circumcizing her husband who subsequently gave her infections or cervical cancer?

[yendu bwam]

I support radical, mandatory, unanaesthetized circumcision for lawyers who file the most frivolous law suits. And you can interpret the "radical" part any way you'd like.

More support here.

[onedoug]

And the PETA crowd that would ban kosher slaughter isn't far behind.

[boris]

I gotta discuss this with my mohel.

--Boris

[Delbert]

Your father was a wise man....your sacrifice is commedable!

[Delbert]

commendable!..(I hate when that happens.)

[Gumlegs]

The precedent setting decision confirms that a baby who is circumcised can sue his doctor when he reaches age of majority, even if there was parental consent for the circumcision, and even if the results are considered to be 'normal.'

Waiting for the time when an abortion victim can sue.

[laredo44]

Lawyer J. Steven Svoboda, executive director of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC) is a sufferer of CSON

Circumcision Scars On Neck

[js1138]

I wonder how the "anti-ageing" docs will fare when trial lawyers start going after them for pushing "dangerous" hormone therapy. Makes no difference where the truth lies -- only what you can get a jury to believe.

[T Wayne]

Note: If you plant the removed foreskin in potting soil and water it daily...

it will grow up to be an attorney.

Nahh, attorneys are no where near that useful!!!!

[Zack Attack]

Good idea. And I'm gonna sue whoever cut my umbilical cord. I've had to live all these years with an outtie when I would have preferred an innie.

[j.havenfarm]

The text is very self-serving and misleading. First, the case is not "precedent setting" until it goes to judgment and is subsequently dealt with in a published appellate court opinion. Second, all that was at stake here was a summary judgment motion. In a SJ motion the moving party essentially says "All of the important facts necessary for me to prevail are undisputed. I should therefore get judgment without having to go to trial." Summary judgment was denied here, and that simply means that one or more of the critical facts is properly dipsuted. Without knowing which fact(s) those are, the press release has no informative value at all - it's just propaganda.

[evolved_rage]

Thats why lawyers wear neckties, it holds the foreskin back.

[Lockbox]

Sent to me via e-mail, they claim it is true. I don’t know, but funny.......

Now this is JUSTICE !

A Charlotte, NC lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars and then insured them against fire among other things. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars, the lawyer filed a claim;against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires."

The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.

The lawyer sued and won! In delivering the ruling the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The Judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be "unacceptable fire," and WAS obligated to pay the claim. Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000.00 to the lawyer for his loss of the rare cigars lost in the "fires."

NOW FOR THE BEST PART.

After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!

With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and he was sentenced to 24 months in jail and ordered to pay a $24,000 fine.

NOTE: This is a true story was the 1st place winner in the Criminal Lawyers Award Contest.

[Paleo Conservative]

And the PETA crowd that would ban kosher slaughter isn't far behind.

The PETA crowd would not mind kosher slaughter techniques so long as it was Jews being slaughtered not animals.