The Convoluted Legal System

The legal system in the US is hailed as our saving grace... trials by a jury of our "peers" protect us. But we've all heard stories of a convoluted system of laws and lawyers that make us shake our heads.

I remember Bob, a tenant of my brother's, who restored stained glass windows. He was doing a large window of a church in Boston, and hired a scaffolding company to erect the scaffold for the job. It seems the scaffold company failed to attach toe boards along the edge of the walking surface, and Bob was fined something approaching 6 figures.

Well here's another case that gets rather complicated. Much more than necessary, methinks. :rolleyes:

Law would work much better without the humans.

Pretty much everything would.

Awww Bruce, If I told such a long story at the dinner table with such an end, I'd be looking for the dog dish.

Please stay on top of this one and let us know when he gets around to the end :rolleyes:

When a friend of mine was in law school, she told us about an assignment they had early on in a civil litigation class. They were presented with a scenario basically similar to the one in Bruce's link: not terribly complicated; there was a car wreck in a certain location, someone died, and various parties were on the clock with their employers at the time of the accident. The assignment was to name every permutation of who-could-sue-whom-for-what given the scenario, and they worked in groups so they could combine their ideas.

The winning group came up with 27 possible litigations. The complete answer given by the professor listed 36.

convoluted is WAY better than no rule of law at all.

yes, really.

http://www.abanet.org/rol/

This post will get a whole lot longer when we start discussing family law.

And divorce courts.:rolleyes:

I'm leaving now.