Ill-Fitting Suits category archive
An Empty Suit 0
Liz Dye delights in reports on Donald Trump and his attorneys being fined just under a million dollars for filing an empty suit against Hillary Clinton et al. An excerpt from her article:
And the reason he persisted is that Trump’s lawsuits are not really lawsuits at all, in the sense that they don’t function to vindicate any legally cognizable injury.
“The Complaint and Amended Complaint were drafted to advance a political narrative; not to address legal harm caused by any Defendant,” the court writes, adding later that “this case is part of Mr. Trump’s pattern of misusing the courts to serve political purposes.”
Muskrat Stats 0
Elon Musk tries to game the numbers.
Facebook Frolics 0
I doubt her suit has a prayer in the courts, but the discovery phase might be interesting.
A Pillow of the Community 0
I would say that this pillow has no case.
Customer Satisfaction 0
Bob Heghmann, 70, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court, saying the national and Virginia Republican parties and some GOP leaders raised millions of dollars in campaign funds while knowing they weren’t going to be able to overturn the law also known as Obamacare.
This suit doesn’t have a prayer, of course, as it is completely detached from objective reality.
As are most Trump supporters.
Details at the link.
Empty Suits 0
Stefanovic, who co-presents Channel Nine’s Today show with Lisa Wilkinson, has been wearing the same blue suit – day in, day out, except for a few trips to the dry cleaner – to make a point about the ways in which his female colleagues are judged. “No one has noticed,” he said.
Early in my working career, I carpooled with the secretary of my company’s controller. This was just a little after the Mad Men era: bosses still had secretaries who typed memos, did filing, and controlled their schedules, and no boss would lower himself (they were all hims) to do his own typing.
This particular boss was a jerk, and not just to his employees. He was an all-around jerk, a utility infielder of a jerk, someone who could be competently jerky regardless of the position he played.
His secretary’s duties included taking care of his dry-cleaning, for Pete’s sake. She therefore knew of what she spoke when she told the carpool that he wore a different suit every day, but you would never know it because all his suits were identical bespoke muted blue pinstripes.
Spacey Needles 0
Bumpy Rides 0
In a 6-1 decision, the Supreme Court rejected the arguments of a South Bay doctor who sued Santa Clara’s Great America theme park after she broke her wrist while riding the “Rue Le Dodge” bumper car ride with her son in 2005. The ruling overturned the San Jose-based 6th District Court of Appeal, which in 2011 concluded that amusement park patrons should be able to sue for such incidents.
More at the link.
Frankly, I think this is a good ruling. It does not negate requirements that amusement park operators do the best they can to make sure that rides are safe, but does say that it’s unreasonable to expect them to swath you in bubble wrap.
The plaintiff’s lawyer disagrees, raising spectres of bumper car rides running amuck.
Full disclosure:
Yes, I have been on bumper cars. I’d take them over I-95 any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
