Morning Docket: 12.10.07
* Vick to be sentenced. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
* He Flatley denied the allegations, and apparently he was telling the truth. [AP via Reno Gazette-Journal]
* All's well that ends well for fired U.S. Attorneys. [Los Angeles Times via How Appealing]
* And home will come lawyer, baby and all. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
* First thing we do, let's detain all the lawyers. [Jurist]
* And speaking of detained lawyers... [Jurist]
(6) Comments
Posted In: Celebrities, Free Speech, Michael Vick, Morning Docket, Politics, Rape, Sentencing Law, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Flatley story is confusing. Was he awarded a judgment, or did it settle?
10:29, it settled. The ambiguity comes from the usual journalistic inability to accurately report about judicial proceedings.
The article clearly says:
"Dance star Michael Flatley has won an $11 million settlement in the United States... The 49-year-old dancer said he was offered the settlement at a hearing Friday at California Supreme Court."
Even those details are confusing - did they settle prior to the hearing on someone's appeal to the California Supremes? Do the California Supremes have mandatory pre-hearing mediation?
10:57, the headline also says that he "won" the case. And in his statement (which I hope was reviewed by his attorney), Flatley said, "I am very pleased with the judgment awarded to me."
I agree it's ambiguous and confusing. I chalk it up to bad reporting.
Maybe the defendant offered to have judgment taken out against her in the amount of $11 million? I mean, how does a real estate agent have liquid assets in that amount available to her? Maybe she was a very successful realtor - but I kind of doubt it.
He wont see a dime. If she was desperate enough to try to extort him, she doesn't have $11 million dollars in cash lying around.
http://www.ajc.com/shared-gen/content/shared-gen/ap/National/Missing_Attorney.html?cxntlid=inform
The Ohio-Atlanta "abduction" was not real.