Edwards!

[tw]

Originally Posted by yesman065

So you as a juror know know that you were shorted facts. By whom?

Yesman065 - apparently everything posted before your 'four letter word' emotional tirade has been forgotten. Read the post before replying to it.

Meanwhile you are wildly speculating again. You are again posting without first reading previous posts. How do you know - using principles taught in junior high science - that the jury awards are too high? Because Rush Limbaugh told you so? Why did Henry Ford sell Pintos with exploding gas tanks - knowing before the first Pinto was sold that those gas tanks would explode and knowing of a $2 solution to stop tank explosions? Why do you know awards are too high when Henry Ford knew it was cheaper to not install that $2 part? Firestone 500 ... did you read any of those examples or did your eyes glaze over after the first paragraph?

Read those previous posts. Then tell us why jury awards are too high. Yesman065 is wildly speculating without any supporting facts AND in direct contradiction to previous posts he did not bother to read.

[xoxoxoBruce]

A suit over a revealing picture in a New Jersey high school yearbook has become a symposium on education and tort-claim law, and it is teaching a school board and nine former students why it's good to have insurance.

Tyler Bennett of Colts Neck claims he suffered emotional distress because his genitals were partly visible in a basketball game picture in his 2001 school yearbook.

The suit says Colts Neck High School authorities acted slowly to suppress the yearbook, worsening the distress Bennett suffered as a senior the next year.

And there's a novel issue: Does the publisher of such a picture violate child pornography laws if publication was inadvertent?

So far, the answer to that question has been no. Indeed, the whole litigation has been a dud for the plaintiff. In 2005, a trial judge cited Bennett's lack of evidence of psychological harm and found no basis for a suit under the Tort Claims Act. On June 23, an appeals court affirmed the dismissal.

Undeterred, plaintiffs attorney Steven Kessel notified his adversaries this month that he will seek review by the state Supreme Court. He is drafting an appeal that raises the issues anew and will set off a new round of defense briefs in the case, Bennett v. Board of Education, Freehold Regional High School District, Mon-L-4700-03.

Schools occasionally get sued. But Bennett's case is rare because he also named nine students who worked on the yearbook, requiring them to obtain counsel for the long and costly litigation.

"It was awful," says Nathanya Simon of Florham Park's Schwartz, Simon, Edelstein, Celso & Kessler, regular outside counsel to the Freehold Regional High School District, which includes Colts Neck High School. "Some were able to get homeowner's coverage but some of them didn't and had to pay their own attorneys."

Even the plaintiffs counsel is sympathetic.

Kessel concedes there is no testimony to suggest anyone intended to put an embarrassing photo in the yearbook.

But when the book was distributed to seniors on a Friday before school's end, the photo touched off a buzz that Bennett and his mother sought to stifle, the suit says.

They went to the principal on Monday before class and asked him to take action to stop further distribution and to recall yearbooks given to seniors. But he did nothing until Bennett went home in shame during the morning and both his parents returned later in the day, the suit says.

Seniors were told to return their yearbooks, and the offending picture was cut out in every copy that was subsequently distributed.

But Kessel says the action was too slow and some students retained their original copies. "We know for a fact that some of the seniors got them," he says.

Bennett stayed home for the last few days of school and when he returned in September he was subject to constant teasing, in one case by a teacher, in another by a player on a rival basketball team, Kessel says.

According to his theory of the case, the editors violated Bennett's privacy and inflicted emotional distress, and the school is liable too because it failed in its supervisory duty.

More.
For every Firestone, there are hundreds (thousands?) of these.

[yesman065]

Originally Posted by tw

Yesman065 - apparently everything posted before your 'four letter word' emotional tirade has been forgotten. Read the post before replying to it.

Read those previous posts. Yesman065 is wildly speculating without any supporting facts AND in direct contradiction to previous posts he did not bother to read.

I reread EVERY post and you have still been unable to answer the simple direct questions put forth to you. You are getting very tiresome and pointless. Just because I refuse to follow your dribble, doesn't mean I am in any way inferior nor less intelligent than you. You have failed repeatedly to provide the necessary information to base an opinion upon. Therefore those of us who still read your posts are forced to guess. Just answer the simple question and lets move on - I've asked several times, yet you refuse to provide any information. I now wonder whether you even have the answers.

I stand by my "four letter tirade" as you put it. The more of your posts I read the more I agree with it. Sounds to me like you are the one getting emotional here as well - could it be that you are actually, dare I say, human?

Oh and YOU still haven't said WHO SHORTED YOU INFORMATION

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Since the initial impression is that the four letters are T, O, R, and another T... well...

[Griff]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

Are you electing a president, or do you just want to sleep with him?

I hope you remembered to be offended when Georgie got the cod piece vote last time around.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by MaggieL

Are you electing a president, or do you just want to sleep with him?

Why not both?
Oh wait, thats an impeachable offense, isnt it...

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Ibram

Why not both?
Oh wait, thats an impeachable offense, isn't it...

...a/k/a, somebody's getting screwed out of a job.

[yesman065]

Back to the title of this thread - Is he really gonna run?? Do you think he actually has a chance to win? What about Billary?

[Griff]

Hillary makes too many folks skin crawl. Edwards has a fair shot but I want divided government from here on out, so hopefully the GOP will get over the kook phase and start pushing conservatives.

[classicman]

BUMP ... found this wile looking for the other Edwards thread...

fun trip down memory lane ...

[Sundae]

I loved Ibram as an early teen prodigy.

He didn't disappoint as a later teen.
Apart from a brief spell of not believing in formal education (because it's a huge regret from my teens).

And as a young adult he is now sexy and intelligent.

I just wish he was happy. Sigh.