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TwiceHorn

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  1. Agree that that is tough to the point of brutal. Lone rangering litigation, especially trial, is tough tough. Respek.
  2. Sounds like, though, Bove is attacking credibility more than anything, as well as trying to make the testimony fit their narrative (SOP). I don't think they're going to get very far on appeal with those issues.
  3. Yeah, I missed this when it broke and it's been hard to follow a bit. He may well be a piece of shit.
  4. I'm not sure where Hartzell stands politically, but I worry about it a bit. As pointed out above, wherever he stands, he's in a fairly impossible position given that the BOR is mostly MAGA as is the governor who appointed them and wields some authority here. I do imagine that he was trying to avoid the fate of his ousted peers at various Ivies. But I also wonder if that bespeaks cowardice. That letter is . . . something. But, I'm not sure it really reflects Hartzell's opinions/feelings on the matter, as Pancho notes. What a clusterfuck.
  5. It's kind of ironic all the way around. There is some truth to the notion that the criminal justice system, including and especially the FBI, is overzealous (but not against people like Trump, where they are under-zealous). That's something they've heard from librul civil libertarians in the past. But these are the same people pissing down their legs about (falling) crime rates and prosecutors who are deliberately under-zealous about petty crimes. And, relatedly, about another federal LEA being under-zealous with respect to scary brown immigrants.
  6. A diversion court in which people with mental illnesses connected to their crimes avoid criminal sanction by receiving mental health treatment.
  7. It's mostly because Merchan holds a mental health court on Wednesdays and considers it too important to push off. Good for him.
  8. Yeah, I've gotten bad vibes off of them for quite some time. They were actually a client of a colleague of mine for just this type of shit. Guy built a helluva business in a short time. Makes you wonder what's up.
  9. One thing it does do that's actually maybe nice for the lawdog is this. Under Texas law, at least, a covenant must be confined to a reasonable geographic area, which usually means the cities, or county, or region where the employee actually worked. And that almost always means a less-than-statewide, much less nationwide, territory. For most major corporations, that is entirely unsatisfactory. They think if a former employee can damage them, it can be from anywhere, at least in the US. And that is at least theoretically true. So, whoever is tasked with drafting such a covenant is often forced into drafting one with an overbroad territory to satisfy management, with everyone knowing that it's likely unenforceable. And that just doesn't feel good if it isn't unethical. So, maybe this will take most of that off the table.
  10. It's costly for the employer as well as the employee and competitor/employer (if they get sued as well or foot the employee's bill). Presumably, the employers are better able to bear that burden, but not always. And yeah, spite and vengefulness seem to play a large role in these deals. Or at least the notion that the departing employee should be terrorized as a warning for others.
  11. That sounds super-unenforceable. I think that's the real problem here: upward of 90% of covenants not to compete are unenforceable under applicable state law. But the cost of defending an enforcement suit is such that it is overall a considerable burden on the parties concerned. One way to look at it is that employers will no longer be able to burden their former employees and competitors with the costs of defense of a likely unenforceable covenant. Rather than banning the enforcement of legitimate rights.
  12. https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/trump-designed-white-house-key-to-flatter-guests-kushner/ Total cheesedick Jaycees move devised by Trump himself.
  13. Shitass is an underrated term. It was my mother's pretty much ultimate insult.
  14. Well, what they were arguing is that there is not a conspiracy charge in the indictment. But, the charged crime may incorporate an uncharged crime if the falsification of documents is in furtherance or for the purpose of committing another crime, which I think is thus far unspecified and only guessed at by the peanut gallery. That crime might be a conspiracy between NE, Pecker and Trump to conceal information or some such.
  15. Floggin those court reporters.
  16. Y'know, at least they title it "The View," implying that it has a viewpoint and is infotainment and not news. Would that some other channels/networks were that candid with their infotainment.
  17. Sustained objections, even objections at all, to an opening or closing statement are regarded as serious business by lawdogs. Although the jury is not instructed, as gator notes, they seem to intuit that objections during such statements are rare and if sustained a bad sign for the party making the statement. The thing about openings and closings is that they are one of the few opportunities either side gets to fully narrate a story, uninterrupted by the rules of direct and cross examination of witnesses. An interruption endorsed by the judge is something.
  18. Someone should check her papers.
  19. His attorneys didn't misjudge much of anything, I practically guarantee. They have a very difficult client who is a pretty terrible criminal defendant.
  20. An explanatory note. It appears that the bond is secured by securities in a brokerage account. In most jurisdictions, he could not pledge that account directly as a bond or undertaking. He could, however, liquidate it and bring cash certified funds to the court for a virtually unimpeachable bond. There is, of course, no guarantee that those securities would liquidate timely and in the amount of $175M, and that would pose some tax issues, I would imagine.
  21. Saw that Kona is throwing in the towel. I think wd40 had a Kona not too long ago. Fairly storied brand that had fallen behind. https://road.cc/content/news/kona-bicycles-winding-down-and-sale-307945
  22. https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/39869353/fort-myers-high-school-baseball-racial-slur-walkout-boycott What a fuckin mess. A bunch of white grievance, but I can't help but think that none of the adults handled this very well.
  23. Yeah the quoted thing was some kind of summary not the rule book.
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