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McDonald’s Ordered To Pay $27 Million For Teens’ Deaths
cbs ^ | 7-30-2014

Posted on 07/31/2014 5:51:30 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

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To: BitWielder1
Since when is McDonald's or any other fast food venue required to be in the security business?

Exactly! Why aren't the cops the one's paying? After all, the argument of the gun-grabbers is that the cops provide security.

21 posted on 07/31/2014 6:27:41 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want 0bama to make history - First to be IMPEACHED and REMOVED!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
However, the issue the jury had to decide was whether Ventura was defamed and suffered financial loss because of the story as published in Chris Kyle's book. He did.

Please tell me on what page is Ventura's name listed. It is NOT listed there, period.

More importantly, people are claiming that Kyle said this to "sell more of his books." Well, the book was a top seller already when Kyle was asked if that part of the book referenced Ventura, which Kyle answered, "Yes."

And tell me exactly how Ventura suffered financial loss. Because that is a crock of crap. No one would care one way or the other if one loud mouth drunk (Ventura) was decked by another loud mouth drunk (Kyle). This case was BS from the beginning because Ventura's name is not listed ANYWHERE in that book!
22 posted on 07/31/2014 6:31:10 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I found one story that said Marcus Jones got 90 days for assaulting Denton’s friend but that was the only arrest.


23 posted on 07/31/2014 6:32:25 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: knarf
Oh, it's not so bad when you realize what it is:

24 posted on 07/31/2014 6:32:54 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: FreedomPoster

The police don’t want security guards to have any real authority because then the cops couldn’t get overtime pay working security details.

Private security guards have the same power of citizen’s arrest as any other person. The problems are that there is little or no training in when to arrest;in fact, most are strongly discouraged from performing a citizen’s arrest of even a violent person .Nor will their employer defend the guard in court.As a private person if you arrest someone clearly committing a crime you can still be sued in civil court and face tremendous legal expenses proving you were right. On top of which you probably were dismissed from your job.I know of store clerks fired for grabbing shoplifters who were trying to leave with high-dollar items.

The lawyers of the last 50 years care absolutely nothing about justice.I say all of them are guilty because the good lawyers refuse to ostracize the scumbags.The judges who preside over so many farcial decisions are guilty as well.


25 posted on 07/31/2014 6:33:47 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Yes, call the police, isn't that what they always tell us?
EVEN IF McDonald's was to provide a security guard, what authority would he have to intervene outside the building anyway? Besides calling the cops.
I hope McDonald's appeals this.
Enough of suing bystanders for something they had no power to control.

26 posted on 07/31/2014 6:34:55 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: The Sons of Liberty; BitWielder1

No.

McDonalds had a duty to provide security. Cops were called 20 previous times?

Not saying McDonalds is liable for $27 million, but yeah. They bear some responsibility.


27 posted on 07/31/2014 6:36:07 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Citizen Zed

Bush’s fault.


28 posted on 07/31/2014 6:36:18 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Barack is the wife.)
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To: BitWielder1

If the guy was carrying concealed, and Texas is a state where he could have been, ....


29 posted on 07/31/2014 6:36:53 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want 0bama to make history - First to be IMPEACHED and REMOVED!)
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To: Right Brother

Obviously the paving company should be sued. Their pavement is like a magnet to thugs...probably something in the mix.


30 posted on 07/31/2014 6:38:00 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Citizen Zed

If the victims would have been armed and fought back, I suspect that McDonalds would still be getting sued by the “crowd of 15-20 people.” It’s the litigation lottery.


31 posted on 07/31/2014 6:38:36 AM PDT by Rhinoman (SMSgt, USAF (Ret))
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To: Responsibility2nd
McDonalds had a duty to provide security.

If the Ronald McDonald Security Cop had shot the thugs (who incidentally would've looked like some of Hussein's sons) how big would the settlement have been then?

32 posted on 07/31/2014 6:43:00 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (I want 0bama to make history - First to be IMPEACHED and REMOVED!)
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To: ExTxMarine

All valid points but I was only speaking to the instructions given the jury by the judge and their decision based on that and what they heard in court. Nothing else matters.


33 posted on 07/31/2014 6:43:41 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man. I am a living legacy to the leader of the band.)
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To: Citizen Zed
“We hope this verdict sends a powerful message to McDonald’s and other companies that protecting customers is more important than late-night revenue,” says attorney Chris Hamilton of Dallas’ Standly Hamilton, LLP, lead trial counsel for the teens’ families. “The night these two kids died, this was a dangerous location, and McDonald’s knew it. Yet they did nothing to prevent their senseless deaths.”

With slime-ball lawyers like these, it further encourages business to stay out da hood.

College Station TX is home to mostly white Texas A&M University, where is this McDonalds?

34 posted on 07/31/2014 6:48:41 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Citizen Zed

Absurd.


35 posted on 07/31/2014 7:01:58 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Citizen Zed

Lawyers, the bane of society. They have perverted a justice systems to turn it into a disturbing legal systems. Between defense attorneys (liars for hire) and televultures I don’t know which to consider the worst.


36 posted on 07/31/2014 7:09:50 AM PDT by JayAr36 (A Democrat is defined as a liar and a hypocrite.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Truth is an absolute defense to a claim of defamation, regardless of how much the truth hurts.

I don't know the facts of the case, but in order to win, Ventura had to prove (the jury had to conclude) that the description of the incident was somehow not truthful.

37 posted on 07/31/2014 7:12:53 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

There are jurisdictions in Texas that are known to be plaintiff’s haven, corrupt in favor of the plaintiff.


38 posted on 07/31/2014 7:14:08 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: TexasCajun

Bryan is fairly close to Prairie View A&M, a traditionally black university.


39 posted on 07/31/2014 7:30:29 AM PDT by jimt (Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.)
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To: knarf
"The big mac is OK, but that disgusting pink/orange/I-don’t-know-WHAT-color-it-is dressing/sauce/goop is just plain sickening"

I prefer dorothy Lynch on my burgers...


40 posted on 07/31/2014 7:55:45 AM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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