Posted on 04/06/2019 12:20:39 PM PDT by billorites
A jury in Las Vegas flatly rejected former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid's lawsuit against an exercise band maker he blamed for injuries — including blindness in one eye — he suffered when the stretchy device slipped from his grasp and he fell face-first a little more than four years ago.
After eight days of testimony, the eight-member civil trial jury deliberated about an hour before declaring that Reid never proved the first of 10 questions they were asked to decide: that the device Reid, former senator from Nevada, used that day was a TheraBand made by Ohio-based Hygenic Corp.
Jurors never saw the actual device because Reid's adult son, attorney Leif Reid, disposed of it soon after Harry Reid was injured.
Reid and his wife, Landra Gould, weren't in the courtroom when the verdict was read. The 79-year-old former Democratic Party leader used a wheelchair throughout the two-week trial, following treatment for pancreatic cancer and back surgery.
Their lawyer, James Wilkes II of Tampa, Florida, said he respected the Nevada jury's decision. "I may not agree with the outcome, but I agree with the way we got there," Wilkes said.
TheraBand lawyer Laurin Quiat was subdued in victory.
"My client always believed in the product, believes that the product is safe, is not unreasonably dangerous for anyone, and they stand behind it," he said. "That's all I have to say."
Reid and his wife sought unspecified monetary damages because they said the product was defective and the company failed to warn the public it was dangerous for elderly people like Reid to use.
Good.
Now will the Democrat who socked him in the eye come forward to claim their own victory?
Go away you evil, one eyed, wheelchair riding, cretin.
What a putz Dingy (still) is.
His son destroyed the device.
Yeah, sure.
My father fell off the ladder while cleaning gutters and broke his wrist.
I cut the wooden ladder into pieces too small for anyone to hurt themselves with.
Good.
His younger brother beat him up...X 3.
Or the Vegas mob.
5.56mm
HA HA !!! ESAD dingy you useless POS !!!
Can he ditch the wheelchair now?
What a frivolous lawsuit-Harry Reid got a beatdown from either his brother or a mafia enforcer...
I work out 3x per week with those fitness/resistance bands and free weights-I’m sure plenty other FReepers do, too. I bought my own equipment to use-I’m not into buying an unsafe product-and I do not see how you could injure yourself with fitness bands-especially if you wear workout gloves while using them so your hands don’t slip-duh...
I guess Harry is low on cash since he isn’t in office-can’t get any more bribes...
I feel kinda bad that I like the outcome of this trial so much. Harry Reid lied at the trial, or he lied to his constituents. Either/or, he lied. He wasted the court’s time and the juror’s also. He cost the exercise company enormous amounts of attorney fees, either that or their insurance rates went up dramatically. What a grifter. At over 70 years, doesn’t this pathetic excuse for a man have enough money?
Gyms are stupid
Go out in nature with no equipment except a bike , skis or boots
That’s excercise
If it’s cold wear clothes
It was “Louie”, and a couple of his meatballs. Came to square his beef!
He didn’t do it for the money. He did it to help perpetuate his lie about how he got injured. What he doesn’t want anyone to know is that he got roughed up by some shady character named Salvatore “The Exercise Machine” Gambino.
perjured himself on stand too
Yes, his brother + the mob.
Having done business there some years back, I learned from a direct source that the Mafia never left Las Vegas. They may no longer own the hotel casinos, at least not directly or through cutouts, but they control everything else — food & drink, transportation, construction, roads, power, water & sewage, prostitution, drugs, unions, and, yes, politicians. It’s Godfather II IRL, which is a major part of the reason why it’s expensive live, work, or vacation in Vegas proper these days. Preferred when the mob took their cut off the top of the gaming proceeds, and you could stay, eat, & recreate cheaply.
The low Vegas mafia and his brother are fitness band??
Lawyers. They sicken me.
Yeah, for the 529,00055th time. To his mind it’s the truth.
Be needs to go take swimming lessons from teddy the lifeless guard.
Oh wait! that whale is DEAD. DEAD ted, hhhmmm, that kinda rhymes:)
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