Morning Docket: 05.04.07
* No do-over for Vonage. [c|net via How Appealing]
* Legislature approves $5 million settlement in Florida boot camp death case. [CNN]
* Katrina wrongful death claims blown away by judge. [Jurist]
* Reno trial lawyer faces his own trial. [Reno Gazette-Journal]
* Fen-Phen plaintiffs have a horse in Saturday's race. [WSJ Law Blog]
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CNN story above: state corrections officers suffocate a 14-year old boy and then settle the resulting lawsuit for $5 million.
Comment from the Charney thread a few days ago:
"$10 million? Try $50,000,000. S&C is going to be punished hard with punitives for their egregious harassment."
Posted by: anon | May 1, 2007 05:53 AM
Yeah. Sure.
Charney's just lucky that he stole client documents from S&C. If he had sought personal revenge by stealing Krautheimer's pants, the $65 million counter-claim would put him in a deep hole.
For all of our sakes, let's hope the personnel offices at Biglaw firms don't learn that $5 million is the going rate for suffocating irritating youngsters.
I'd love to stay and chat longer, but I have to go screw a hot chick whose job application I'm about to reject. But don't worry about her: if she's any good in bed, I'll write her a nice reference for Akin Gump, or at least put her in contact with the good folks at Playboy.
Who writes this stuff?