Posted on 02/08/2024 9:41:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Regular Rush Limbaugh listeners remember Mark Steyn’s many guest appearances.
I didn’t follow his show later but saw this in a British site:
Mark Steyn has quit his show after claiming the channel wanted to hold him liable for paying Ofcom fines. The conservative presenter was under investigation for anti-vaccine comments made on his show last year and has been absent from the show in recent months after suffering two heart attacks.Feb 7, 2023 The Standard.UK
We are so fn fkd.
only DC nuked could save
I believe SCOTUS precedent hold that punitive damages in ratio to actual damages of more than 9 or 10 to 1 is a due process violation. That may be what’s referred to in the article
Mann’s research is fraudulent. There is no doubt about that.
piing
That’s crazy. He should have had an attorney.
Mark’s whole case, deportment, reason, and evidence was magnificent. having heard the whole thing, i would have acquitted him in a NY minute if i were a juror. if i was the judge i would have dismissed the case faster than that.
however, as expected by all, including Mark, a complete and total injustice was perpetrated by a DC judge and jury, who decided the case on political grounds, just as they have done to all our political prisoners.
nonsense. you obviously didn’t follow the case.
Seems like Steyn paid the price for the stupid Sandusky comments of the other defendant.
Good reply.
I was wondering what he was referencing.
This is what I found searching after your reply-
According to the court, “Few awards exceeding a single-digit ratio between punitive and compensatory damages... will satisfy due process.”
State Farm Mut. Automobile Ins. Co. v. Campbell, 538 U.S. 408 (2003)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/538/408/
i should add that this was, imho, a pyrrhic victory for mann and the climate fraud side. even though part of mann’s lawfare strategy was to stall and bleed Mark for 12 years, Mark stayed the course and destroyed mann and co in court, no matter what the verdict.
mann and co looked very, very bad in the end. poor Mark though. i know his health has suffered badly. i’m glad it’s over for now. Mark get’s some well deserved time off before offcom in the UK.
i can’t bless and thank Mark and Rand enough for taking this case to the mat. thanks to Mark and and Rand’s evidence and case, everything is now on record, penn state’s then administration and mann came out looking like corrupt, vituperative, vindictive, vapid, stupid, sexist pigs, and climate science was totally discredited as a leftist political sham.
and finally, i believe, Mark’s opening and closing statements will rank with the finest oratory in civil trial history. really magnificent.
Rush always claimed optimism, and good on him, but the forces of evil have the powerful hand, the strong record and we are not immune from their obvious clear severe tyranny.
It could take 100 years to throw off this murderous tyranny or more likey 1000 years with todays technology; in any case we are royally screwed.
-fJRoberts-
Insane.
Courts are corrupt and compromised.
Thank you. That’s exactly what I was looking for. Unlawful awards of damages can be adjusted by the judge in post trial motions
And were asked by Mann's lawyer to do exactly that - to decide the case on political grounds.
I won't say justice is dead in the US, but it certainly is not alive in DC.
RICO is now a tool concept in the hands of our communist masters...
Well said.......a travesty indeed.....but worse, as it was expected.....we have very serious problems.
At least it wasnt a billion dollar fine as is the going rate for lawfare these days.
I tried to follow the case as I could. The simple fact though is he lost. And though Mr. Steyn is very smart, people who represent themselves have a very poor track record. Do you really think he should have lost his case?
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