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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.
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