Peckerwood's clamfeed

sgoehrin@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (scott goehring)

>Peter McDermott wrote:
>That sure sounds like the clams are panicking to me. How do you
>think Judge Whyte is gonna respond to a rich cult that is using
>_six_ sets of lawyers, just to chase poor little Dennis?
>
>has anyone here read Grisham's latest, _The Rainmakers_? there's a
>scene where the protagonist, a fresh-from-the-bar lawyer is sitting in
>court to argue _motions_ and the defense, a large insurance company,
>has five or six lawyers--including the senior partner--from the firm
>representing it, plus two or three of their own in-house lawyers, and
>a smattering of other suits all crowded around the defense table.
>meanwhile, our poor hero is sitting there all by himself at the
>plaintiff's table....
Scott: >bringing great hordes of attorneys is almost always a sign of an
>intent to be obstructionary. they want to intimidate the other party
>and, if possible, the judge. problem is that it rarely works on
>judges who have generally seen it hundreds of times. it _does_ work
>on juries, though. ms. oakley is going to have to find ways to make
>fools out of them come trial time if she wants to keep that from
>happening.
Scott, there's NO WAY IN HELL that the scienos are going to let this case go to trial. A jury decide a case with scienos a plaintiffs, against one lone dissident minister, speaking out to warn the public using the actual scriptures <spit> of the cult?

Never happen! +--------------------------------------+ Rev. Dennis L Erlich * * the inFormer * * dennis.l.erlich@support.com + inForm@primenet.com "tar baby"