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Lawyer Spends $10,000 Fighting $65 Ticket
WNBC-TV, Channel 4 ^
| 6/15/2007
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Posted on 06/15/2007 1:23:53 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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Alright, buddy! You pass lawyering with flying colors but you fail accounting.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Yes, but now he might be able to sue for damages.
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posted on
06/15/2007 1:25:05 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
sometimes it’s just the principle. the person who wrote out the ticket surely had a smile... no more.
To: Spktyr
Yeah and the thing that really irritates me is that he would probably tell a client to pay the ticket unless there was some financial gain in it for him.
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posted on
06/15/2007 1:28:17 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
He couldn’t take it anymore? Sounds like he took it big time anyway. 10k worth.
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posted on
06/15/2007 1:28:58 PM PDT
by
Khepera
(Do not remove by penalty of law!)
To: Ancient Drive
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posted on
06/15/2007 1:29:28 PM PDT
by
joeystoy
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
You know what? Good for him. I’m glad someone with the resources to do so was able to stand up to the money-grubbing petty tyrants who use traffic and parking laws as pure revenue grabs. I wish more people were able to stand up thusly.
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posted on
06/15/2007 1:29:54 PM PDT
by
Turbopilot
(iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I think we should socialize the law profession, they obviously make entirely too much money screwing their clients.
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posted on
06/15/2007 1:31:03 PM PDT
by
mimaw
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Where did the 10k figure come from? Probably made-up BS like applying his “hourly rate” to the time he spent fighting the ticket. Just what we need....more lawyer crap!!!! Pitiful.
To: joeystoy
“I have to show my photo ID to buy beer at the self checkout at Stop ‘n Shop, but this guy has a formal hearing in front of a government magistrate and never has to show any proof that he is who he says he is.”
It would be “unfair” to require photo ID. < /s >
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posted on
06/15/2007 1:35:40 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
To: cripplecreek
I don’t understand why that irritates you. Would you expect him to take a client’s ticket that far pro bono, to do all that work for nothing?
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posted on
06/15/2007 1:46:28 PM PDT
by
TKDietz
To: mimaw
I think we should socialize the law profession, they obviously make entirely too much money screwing their clients.
Wait a minute. You need to get your anti-lawyer talking points straight. I thought you guys always said there were too many lawyers?
Econ 101 says that you can’t have an excess of supply and too-high prices. Which is it?
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posted on
06/15/2007 1:48:40 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney (...and another "Constitution-bot"))
To: GoldenPup
Reminds me of a story I once heard:
A lawyer dies and goes to heaven. (Easy, its fiction) St. Peter meets him at the pearly gates. The lawyer is contesting his death. (I, don’t know if he paid $10,000.00). He tells the good Saint that there must be some mistake, he is in good health and is only 40 years old. St. Peter looks in his book, and says “No mistake, according to your billing records, you are 90 years old.”
To: Beelzebubba
Econ 101 says that you cant have an excess of supply and too-high prices. Which is it? Lawyers are different. An idle lawyer will make work for himself and two or three others and force others to pay the tab.
Up against the wall for the lot of you!
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posted on
06/15/2007 1:55:04 PM PDT
by
Dinsdale
To: Dinsdale
Just so. We’ve all heard the story about the lawyer who started business in a small town and couldn’t make any money—until a second lawyer moved in next door. Then there was plenty of business for both of them.
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posted on
06/15/2007 1:58:53 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
It's a good thing when a lawyer wastes his own time and money.
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posted on
06/15/2007 2:00:57 PM PDT
by
Bon mots
To: Dinsdale
Do you feel the same way about all mechanics, heating and air guys, doctors, contractors, etc., because some of them screw people over claiming to do work they never did? Most lawyers aren’t getting rich and most of them aren’t screwing anyone over.
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posted on
06/15/2007 2:03:05 PM PDT
by
TKDietz
To: Dinsdale
I was an attorney at a law firm a few years ago that would routinely spend upwards of $200,000 to litigate a case that the plaintiff's attorney would settle for $5,000 - and our client knew damn well that we were doing it.
It is a litigation strategy to fight all cases for the principle of it, so that plaintiff's attorneys eventually understand that you're not just going to roll over for them. And sure enough, the nuisance cases filed against that client continued to drop...
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posted on
06/15/2007 2:04:22 PM PDT
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: GoMeanGreen
Should be fired, lose all pension, and have all tickets written in the past 365 days voided.
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posted on
06/15/2007 2:07:02 PM PDT
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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