Morning Docket: 04.25.08
* Wesley Snipes gets maximum three-year sentence in tax evasion case. Civil suit continues. [CNN]
* Bill Cosby and Marvin Arrington, a recent Judge of the Day, team up. [CNN]
* FDA to get a better look at LASIK. [Washington Post]
* Verdict expected in trial of police alleged to have shot and killed man after bachelor party. [New York Times]
* Veterans' care firm ordered to pay back $100 million. [MSNBC]
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Apparently Mr. Snipes thought he had already paid his debt to society by making those Blade movies.
If those officers are convicted for killing that bachelor dude, everyone needs to riot so in the future they'll never know which verdict will result in riots. That way, maybe juries will actually decide based on the evidence.
What the article didn't mention was that Pacman Jones was seen at the same night club earlier that night.
Not guilty on all counts!!!
Dear 9:15:
This was a bench trial. The officers waived their right to a jury. Thanks for trying!
Yours, 9:54
Gee, I wonder why these officers waived their right to a jury...
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LASIK is the next latent mass tort.
this site's new format still sucks. i just came back to see if they had fixed it.
oh how i miss wasting time on this site.
10:17
As with every popular medical procedure, there will surely be some susceptibility to tort litigation. But, honestly, the injury rates are just not there. Maybe we'll see some misrepresentation or even fraud, but you have to have something go REALLY REALLY wrong to get actual physical damages - particularly of the type that are not easily correctible with a subsequent procedure - out of LASIK. Not saying it can't happen; not saying it doesn't happen; am saying it's much rarer than any comparably popular procedure.
I don't forsee any litigation wave for lasik. The good guys will prevail on this one