Re: Why did Palin resign?
- From: El Castor <No_One@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:41:33 -0800
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:51 +0100, Earl Evleth <evleth@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 5/12/09 18:28, in article pl2lh5lv0m71t5o7fs4ahnlpdkf8st7dl7@xxxxxxx, "ElSadly, the French tort system is far superior to that of the United
Castor" <No_One@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Because of state law she had
to spend her own money to defend herself, and before she resigned she
had run up $500,000 in legal bills.
Why that much? We have finished two legal cases in France, winning
both and the legal costs are moderate. In one case we were slandered
and we won.
It is when you are guilty that you have to turn on the legal machinery and
have to get a bunch of lawyers to defend you.
States. I assume that in those two cases which you won, the plaintiff
was required to pay all or most of your attorney's fees. That is
because most of the civilized world has "loser pays", also known as
the "English Rule", but not the US.
" ... as millions of well-informed Europeans see it, loser-pays isn't
nearly as terrifying as the way we sue in this country, where lawyers
can lay your life to waste and the system will leave you no recourse
at all. Loser-pays is the standard in England, so it is sometimes
known as the "English Rule." It is thus often spoken of as if it were
some Beefeaters-and-warm-beer eccentricity of the Sceptered Isle. But
it has no special connection with England. It has prevailed for
millennia in Europe, developing early in Roman law and spreading from
there to the civil law systems that evolved all over the continent and
became codified in France, Germany, and elsewhere around the time of
Napoleon."
http://reason.com/archives/1995/06/01/civil-suits
Why don't we have it here? The same reason the proposed health care
legislation does not include tort reform or any restriction on medical
malpractice litigation. The legal industry is a huge supplier of funds
to Democrat candidates, state and federal, and I believe, the largest
single PAC contributor to the Democrat party at the national level.
Over 90% of their money goes to Democrats. Obama and Pelosi have been
bought and paid for.
.
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