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“Triggering” someone to go kill themself seems like a pretty high bar to me for wrongful death.
I’m not a lawyer but find it hard to believe that your argument (which reduces to “the school may have made her attack the other student”) is even relevant to whether the school made her kill herself. If “wrongful death” can mean “set off a series of events that led to despair and ultimately suicide” then I suspect a lot of companies are going to need to lawyer up, not to mention municipalities and employers of high suicide rate professions, and spouses for that matter.
In a world where individual adults are responsible for their actions, we have to separate the assault on another student from the “reason” for the assault. No one has claimed it was self defense, and self defense is one of if not the only argument for use of force (including throwing hot coffee on someone).
I will say it again: the circumstances are tragic but hardly novel. Young men are accused of “sexual assault” at a fast pace these days, and that accusation gives exactly noone the right to assault them in kind…No matter how “triggered” they are. And, you know what? No matter how inept the university is in disciplining others, you still don’t get to avenge your friend.
So, I think the university could move to suppress discussion of the sexual assault as irrelevant to Katie’s assault on another student, since the two incidences are not concurrent and Katie was not truly “defending” her teammate from a sexual assault as I understand it.
Now, let’s talk about what the actual claimed proximate cause was: they notified her of a hearing via an allegedly brusque email delivered in an evening email. Seems like a fairly adult thing to have to deal with to me. I have seen process servers walk into a person’s private garage at an evening time and serve far more ominous papers than the email KM received. Does that make such a person liable for the recipients next actions?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Happy Thanksgiving!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)If trump were a team player, here’s what he should do:
1. announce a run for president. Not now but, say just before desantis
2. Act as the stalking horse for desantis… keep desantis in the news and to the left of “perceived trump” (I say perceived because trump was never a hard right pol).
3. Make it about exposure and favorable coverage for desantis, while doing his “trump” thing to rile the 15 % of the electorate that is “MAGA TRUMP”
4. Go through the primaries with a goal of winning a few but putting desantis on offense and keeping him in the news. The Dems are sure to have a primary fight in 24 OR they will have Biden getting plenty of pub.
5. Drop out and endorse desantis. Leaving desantis as a sane, logical, centrist choice against Biden or whatever other lefty loon the Dems put in place.
this will never happen because trump is about trump.
and, I agree he needs to get off the stage.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Stanford hates fun.
…and any meaningful debate that threatens liberal orthodoxy.
This reality extends to a great many indoctrinated Stanford alums, who tend to be intolerant assholes.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Huh…. I guess the red wave isn’t quite what it was supposed to be.
It always pays to go by the old adage: “Don’t believe the hype.”
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=6595]
- “Tell me why it should be ok.”
The money is front loaded in the publisher’s advance before a single copy is sold. Absent something like this, how do you attract top minds to the bench with the market for legal talent as it exists today? $5-$8 million in per partner profits is tough to compete with.[/quote]
Having cake and eating it too.
Go be a judge, then retire and go back to your partnership job. Choose. It’s part of life.
The advance is based on estimated book sales, which is really just another form of royalty.
I remain unconvinced. Government service should be akin to priesthood. Put your assets in a blind trust and seek no compensation outside of your government salary and pension. Not enough? Don’t work for the government.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=6593]I believe book royalties are the only source of outside revenue available to those on the Federal bench? I know leftists have been trying their best to undo ACB’s $2 million dollar book deal? the deals are pretty public. Are you troubled by that arrangement?[/quote]
Absolutely.
Any vehicle that allows for undue influence over a public official should be outlawed.
I can’t bribe an official but I can buy ten thousand copies of their book.
That’s like elementary-school level cheating and we allow it all day long on all sides of the spectrum.
Tell me why it should be ok.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)8 terms for Leahy. That’s 48 years; right?
let that sink in. We have people “serving” for 48 years.
we need term limits and mandatory retirement ages for legislators.
We also need to tax 100 percent of net revenue earned via books, appearances, apparel, board seats and speaking fees while in elected office and for 5 years after. Too much gray market cash flowing to elected officials.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I have been surprised at how hard it is to find unedited video of Biden and a few others like Fetterman who don’t show well.
I’m not sure Biden even does live tv events anymore. Too hard to clean up after.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yes! People get up in arms about using price this way but that really is the best way to manage usage.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I don’t live in a water constrained locale, so probably can’t relate; but I would have no problem with a list like this as long as everybody knew it was going to be published.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=6506]Leg and: [quote quote=6501]Trump alone screwed up Georgia’s senate seats. The asshole.[/quote] How do you weigh Trump’s impact relative to the 2020 Covid voting process anomalies and the Abrams litigation re voter access?[/quote]
for the Georgia senate runoff? I think trump basically gave it to the Dems. Didn’t he stir the pot on the wrong side of politics (like advocating for more covid aid?)?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=6506]Leg and: [quote quote=6501]Trump alone screwed up Georgia’s senate seats. The asshole.[/quote] How do you weigh Trump’s impact relative to the 2020 Covid voting process anomalies and the Abrams litigation re voter access?[/quote]
for the Georgia senate runoff? I think trump basically gave it to the Dems. Didn’t he stir the pot on the wrong side of politics (like advocating for more covid aid?)?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Why should Christian minister come into play? Warnock’s politics are wrong, regardless of his ministry.
I am way past the personal values of a politician being the only reason to vote or not vote. At this point neither party has the moral high ground so gridlock is a better solution.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Honestly the whole candidacy has been a disgrace.
The only reason to vote for Walker is to have a Republican vote in the senate. And sadly I would vote for him for that reason alone.
Trump alone screwed up Georgia’s senate seats. The asshole.
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