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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:08 PM Original message |
After more than 400 lawsuits, disabled man can sue no more |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. *sets brakes* |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's okay that the businesses don't comply with the law. I guess that's what |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:19 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Wrong |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 06:22 PM Response to Reply #7 |
24. Noop. It doesn't matter if he's doing it for personal gain. Law enforcers should be |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. No, the judge is telling this one particular guy who essentially |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
3. Looks to me like he was simply extorting the money for his own gain. |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Exactly |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:20 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Since the story doesn't say what he did with the money |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:32 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. earning the Polish-born plaintiff hundreds of thousands of dollars in less than two |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:36 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Earning means keeping it? |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Are you for real? |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 06:23 PM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Why are you defending the law-breaking businesses? nt |
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123infinity (276 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 06:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. tens of thousands?? |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Then I'm a horrible person |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
17. If he'd been suing on behalf of the disabled |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:42 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Exactly my take. |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
5. The 9th Circuit Court makes it pretty clear that this guy was a vexatious litigant |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:19 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Sounds dangerously close to legal advice to me. |
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loyalkydem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
8. as a diabled person |
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Throd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
11. My uncle's son-in-law is one of those scumbags. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
12. What he did is like how hick-town police departments issue traffic tickets. |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
14. I am a firm supporter of ADA, but jerk-offs like this guy are Nazis. |
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donco6 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 04:42 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Here, too. But they've been very quiet lately. n/t |
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musiclawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
21. That it took so long is what's mind boggling |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 05:11 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I would think that barring a plaintiff after only 10 suits would be an abuse of discretion |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
23. If DOJ and/or the California AG's office were vigorously enforcing ADA, |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 06:24 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Absotively correct! nt |
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Homer Wells (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
28. Now, if some Federal Judge would do the same thing |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
29. That's going to make a lot of businesses around here happy (although it's probably too late) |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
30. It's called barratry |
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