Republican Hypocrits and Their Frivolous Lawsuits
It looks like those crazy Republican tort-reformer fellas on the Hill have some dirty little secrets. No, not those kinds of dirty little secrets. Well, I guess they have those too, but that's not what this post is about.
When one of his twin daughters was involved in a fender bender (in which no one was hurt), then Governor Bush filed a lawsuit to recover property damage to the car. I do not know which driver was at fault, but I found it interesting that Bush sued Enterprise Rental-A-Car.
His theory was that the other driver did not have a valid driver’s license and, therefore, that Enterprise should not have rented him a car. I leave it to you to decide if that is an example of looking for a deep pocket with only a tangential relationship to the damage. Bush collected a $2,500 settlement from Enterprise.
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A local Ohio car dealership used a tiny thumbnail photograph of Schwarzenegger in a full page advertisement in a local Ohio newspaper. Arnold sued the dealership and its ad agency claiming that used his photograph without his consent. He sought more than $37 million in damages.
Schwarzenegger filed the suit in California despite the fact that the ad ran only in Ohio and the car dealership had no connection to California. See, Republican politicians do not think that forum shopping (to say nothing of outrageous damage claims) is always bad, at least not when they are the shoppers.
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...How, then, does Santorum explain why his wife sued a chiropractor for half a million dollars alleging back injuries from a badly done spinal manipulation? He says it is a private matter. Of course, Santorum believes that everyone else's claim for compensation is a public matter. Santorum does not think that "jackpot justice" is so bad when his wife is the winner.
Hmmmm... private matter? Shall I throw out the "man on dog" thingy, in perchance suggesting the real reason for the back injuries???? Rrrufff!
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In 1990, the DeLays filed suit against Midcap Bearing Corp. of San Antonio and Lovejoy Inc. of Illinois, the distributor and maker of a coupling that the family said had failed and caused the tram to hurtle out of control.
The family's wrongful death lawsuit accused the companies of negligence and sought actual and punitive damages.
Tom DeLay was a named plaintiff in that suit. The case settled for something in the neighborhood of a quarter of a million dollars. Three years after his mother received the settlement:
DeLay cosponsored a bill specifically designed to override state laws on product liability such as the one cited in his family's lawsuit.
He thinks his family should be able to collect a whole bunch of money, but others shouldn't?? What a meanie. One more reason that Tom DeLay is going to hell.
When one of his twin daughters was involved in a fender bender (in which no one was hurt), then Governor Bush filed a lawsuit to recover property damage to the car. I do not know which driver was at fault, but I found it interesting that Bush sued Enterprise Rental-A-Car.
His theory was that the other driver did not have a valid driver’s license and, therefore, that Enterprise should not have rented him a car. I leave it to you to decide if that is an example of looking for a deep pocket with only a tangential relationship to the damage. Bush collected a $2,500 settlement from Enterprise.
[...]
A local Ohio car dealership used a tiny thumbnail photograph of Schwarzenegger in a full page advertisement in a local Ohio newspaper. Arnold sued the dealership and its ad agency claiming that used his photograph without his consent. He sought more than $37 million in damages.
Schwarzenegger filed the suit in California despite the fact that the ad ran only in Ohio and the car dealership had no connection to California. See, Republican politicians do not think that forum shopping (to say nothing of outrageous damage claims) is always bad, at least not when they are the shoppers.
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...How, then, does Santorum explain why his wife sued a chiropractor for half a million dollars alleging back injuries from a badly done spinal manipulation? He says it is a private matter. Of course, Santorum believes that everyone else's claim for compensation is a public matter. Santorum does not think that "jackpot justice" is so bad when his wife is the winner.
Hmmmm... private matter? Shall I throw out the "man on dog" thingy, in perchance suggesting the real reason for the back injuries???? Rrrufff!
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In 1990, the DeLays filed suit against Midcap Bearing Corp. of San Antonio and Lovejoy Inc. of Illinois, the distributor and maker of a coupling that the family said had failed and caused the tram to hurtle out of control.
The family's wrongful death lawsuit accused the companies of negligence and sought actual and punitive damages.
Tom DeLay was a named plaintiff in that suit. The case settled for something in the neighborhood of a quarter of a million dollars. Three years after his mother received the settlement:
DeLay cosponsored a bill specifically designed to override state laws on product liability such as the one cited in his family's lawsuit.
He thinks his family should be able to collect a whole bunch of money, but others shouldn't?? What a meanie. One more reason that Tom DeLay is going to hell.
posted by cookie christine @ 3/28/2005
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