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ElwoodCuse posted:The best Reddit legal advice thread ever was the guy they told to talk to every divorce lawyer in his town so his wife couldn't hire one. I think it happened on the Sopranos. He did, and when the judge found out, he got found in contempt for acting maliciously. No, they told him to do that in r/redpill. r/legaladvice has mocked that ever since.
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Stex T posted:The best thing to do is to have some process server commit suicide in some horribly depraved manner, and when he enters the Kingdom of the Damned he can go to Satan and be like PSYCHE, BITCH. This is brilliant and I will pass it right along to the born-again and schizophrenic legal community.
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Jul 23, 2016 23:38
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AlbieQuirky posted:No, they told him to do that in r/redpill. r/legaladvice has mocked that ever since. No, I remember that thread. It was one dude in r/exmormon of all places. He went and did it and then once his wife's new lawyer filed a motion for contempt he asked "wait isn't this a good idea?" The funniest thing is that he later said that he wanted to go to law school, and folks were like "you'll never be allowed to pass the bar after doing something like this," and then a day later he posted on a local page about selling a bunch of LSAT practice books. Dumb motherfucker.
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Jul 24, 2016 00:01
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There's a bunch of different versions of the story floating around, but it wouldn't surprised me if it's actually happened in real life several times & some of the stories are true.
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Cumslut1895 posted:Tasing somebody for mouthing off at you is totally hosed up. Breaking somebodies window because they're being a dick is hosed up. Sov Cits basically fall into three categories: 1. Dim-witted idiot that just got told these are the magic words to get out of a speeding/drug charge. Incredibly annoying, but otherwise harmless 2. True Believers who hate the federal government/police, typically horde weapons or fall into prepping. Still annoying but there's a much greater danger because they are often armed. 3. Dyed-In-The-Wool Fanatics who believe sov cit bullshit with every fiber of their being. Easily classified as terrorists these whackjobs spend most of their time coming up with elaborate anti-government plans or protests. Often heavily armed (sometimes better then most police) and willing to fight. These whack jobs have killed a lot of cops over the years, and only now is law enforcement really getting a handle on just how big a threat they pose. The militias that took over the wildlife refuge, that nutjob that shot all those cops in Baton Rouge, and the Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh (who killed 160+ people) were all Sovereign Citizens. Larger groups are under surveillance by the FBI/NSA as terrorist organizations, and are often the subject of FBI sting operations. Dangerous to the general public but extremely dangerous to law enforcement/government officials. The thing is, if you're a cop, you don't magically know what type of Sovereign Citizen you're suddenly dealing with. They could be a harmless dipshit just trying to weasel out of a ticket, or they could be a total whackjob who's buying time to get a weapon they've concealed in their vehicle or person for this exact situation. For your safety as a cop, as well as theirs, it's important to get them secured as quickly as possible so you have time to sort the situation out and figure out what you're really dealing with. I am by no means a law enforcement apologist, and the actions of many law enforcement communities regarding minorities of all stripes have been pretty appalling, but it's hard to fault them for dealing harshly with Sov Cits because they seriously can be extremely dangerous, especially given their little cult's actions of late. Man, writing all that up, I need a palette cleanser http://www.annistonstar.com/news/crime/sovereign-citizen-convicted-of-extortion/article_5f98b10c-4ecd-11e6-b3ff-3318a0f8155b.html quote:A Riverside man, convicted of second-degree extortion Wednesday afternoon, declared that prosecutors, an officer, judge and deputy committed treason for failing to comply with the U.S. Constitution.
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This might be a stretch on the topic, but related to reddit. There was a topic asking people convicted of rape to discuss their crimes and how they've been since prison, one dude came in and admitted he and a buddy got two underage girls drunk and had sex with them and he was never caught. As I recall he left in personal info on some other posts and some people called up where he was going to college and managed to get him expelled and fired.
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Teddybear posted:No, I remember that thread. It was one dude in r/exmormon of all places. He went and did it and then once his wife's new lawyer filed a motion for contempt he asked "wait isn't this a good idea?" Yes, you're right! It was r/exmormon. The mockery I remembered correctly, though. Nobody has done a lovely MSPaint diagram in r/legaladvice in a while, which makes me sad.
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Jul 24, 2016 04:55
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Voice actors from Rick & Morty perform the transcript from State of Georgia v. Denver Allen live at Comic Con to hilarious effect.
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Nuevo posted:Voice actors from Rick & Morty perform the transcript from State of Georgia v. Denver Allen live at Comic Con to hilarious effect. Hoooooly poo poo. This is amazing.
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But wait, there's video.coleman francis posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc8uyJTDhjw
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We had a case in our local court here where a woman filed a lawsuit for negligently killing her husband. You didn't read that wrong, and yes that requires backstory. So every now and then one of the beer distributors in our area sponsors a music concert, and as part of the fun they have a VIP area where it's All You Can Drink. One of their marketing directors gives a VIP pass to her husband, who gets shmammered drunk, somewhere in the mid .200's BAC. Post-concert, the director is giving her husband a ride back to their car across the parking area in a golf cart. But she doesn't have him sit in the golf cart, she has him stand on the back where golf clubs go, because their kid's sitting in the passenger seat. She claims there was a bump in the pavement, defense disputed that, but regardless, husband falls off the back, hits his head hard on pavement, dies a few days later from it. She files a negligence lawsuit on behalf of the husband's estate against her company. I think one of the main theories put forward was: The company failed to provide adequate golf cart operational training. It was basically a legal logic exercise for the plaintiff's attorney in attempting to come up with a theory that blamed something other than the director. It didn't work, case was dismissed.
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Abugadu posted:We had a case in our local court here where a woman filed a lawsuit for negligently killing her husband. She was trying to tap her company's liability policy for extra cash (not realizing that's...not how insurance works).
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Jul 25, 2016 20:19
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13Pandora13 posted:She was trying to tap her company's liability policy for extra cash (not realizing that's...not how insurance works). Well yeah, but I just enjoyed the angle of suing your employer because you screwed up but trying to not make it look like that.
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I'm surprised that I agree with Ryan Bundy when he call himself an idiot.quote:Bundy, who is representing himself in the conspiracy case against the refuge occupiers, declares himself an “idiot of the ‘Legal Society’” and not subject to federal law, according to the documents.
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Aug 2, 2016 07:46
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From the schadenfreude thread:Random Stranger posted:http://www.publicdefender.mo.gov/Newsfeed/Delegation_of_Representation.PDF
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Gann Jerrod posted:I'm surprised that I agree with Ryan Bundy when he call himself an idiot. Is this man real?  quote:Bundy filed a motion declaring himself a sovereign citizen of the “bundy society.” Within that filing, he declared himself a creation of God rather than a “person” as defined by legal dictionaries, and therefore is not subject to laws. Bundy also wrote that his wife and children are members of the Bundy society and that he believes his home state of Nevada and the state of Oregon are not within the United States.
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I remember a weird argument I got into with a SovCit where he insisted a 'tort' was 'when the government tries to take your rights away'. He clarified that by saying "if you ever go WHAAAAAAAAAT, you've identified a tort". SovCits seem to think that legalese is a magical language and you can cast anti-government spells by saying the right incantation.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:From the schadenfreude thread: HAHAHA Yesssss! I'm guessing they got their budget back pretty quickly after that.
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The Ferret King posted:What does it mean to "draft the governor?" In this case, because the governor is licensed to practice law, as many politicians tend to be, it means that the head of the office assigned all of the cases that the office could no longer handle to the governor, forcing him to either take time away from politics to handle a bunch of court cases or to refund the public defenders.
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The PDF is pretty easy to read (pretty sure on purpose, as it's at least partially intended as a press release of sorts). It's only one case, but still a magnificent burn.
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Those not familiar with the state of most public defender offices, here's a good take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USkEzLuzmZ4
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The Ferret King posted:What does it mean to "draft the governor?" The state has a law that lets that guy just hand excess cases that the public defenders can't handle. Public defenders are just always overworked and overburdened. The governor, who is a lawyer legally allowed to practice law, keeps axing their funding which screws over the poor very hard. The guy basically just said "you created this problem and I'm forcing you to fix it because I can."
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I get it now, thanks folks.
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FuhrerHat posted:This recreation of a deposition makes me laugh every time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbqAMEwtOE I swear, if I didn't trust this to actually be a transcription just from the source. I'd have to believe that punchline right at the end was fake.
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Artist Accused of Disowning a Painting Testifiesquote:The lawsuit, brought by Mr. Fletcher and Mr. Bartlow, charges that Mr. Doig is either confused or lying, and that his denials wrecked their plan to sell the work at a Chicago auction house for what they said could have been millions of dollars.
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Oh my loving god.quote:In a brief opening statement, William F. Zieske, a lawyer for the owner, said the evidence would prove that a painting bought in 1976 by his client, a former correction officer named Robert Fletcher, and signed “Pete Doige,” is “indeed the work of Peter Doig.” quote:Mr. Fletcher said he knew Mr. Doig in the 1970s, when the artist attended Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada, and later, while working in a Canadian detention center, and that the painter indeed created the work while a young inmate there. quote:But Mr. Doig has said he was sent a photograph of the canvas by the owner and did not recognize it. He said he never attended Lakehead, was never near the detention facility (the Thunder Bay Correctional Center, several hours north of Toronto), and has never been incarcerated. He grew up in Canada, before attending art school in England. He was 16 or 17 in 1976, he has said, and living with his parents in Toronto. quote:Mr. Doig and his lawyers have identified a man, Peter Edward Doige, who they say was the real artist. He died in 2012, but his sister, Marilyn Doige Bovard, said he had attended Lakehead University, served time in Thunder Bay, and painted. quote:The prison’s former art teacher recognized a photograph of Ms. Bovard’s brother as a man who had been in his class and said he had watched him paint the painting, according to the teacher’s affidavit.
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How are there two people in the world named Pete Doige.
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Nuebot posted:How are there two people in the world named Pete Doige. There aren't, one doesn't have an e at the end.
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There's not (at least not relevant to this case). The artist is named Peter Doig. The painting is signed by a Peter Doige.
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WickedHate posted:There aren't, one doesn't have an e at the end. Whether you're a doig or a doige, it's an awful name.
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Aug 9, 2016 07:15
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It's a doig-eat-doige world.
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I have to work with 3 Raphaels, 3 Dans, and 2 Juan M.s at my job. I'm thinking of sueing the company for undue mental hardship.
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Freudian slippers posted:It's a doig-eat-doige world. Hahah
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Goodness, it seems Peter Doig didn't paint that canvas while imprisoned in a detention facility in a province he'd never been too for a crime he'd never committed while being several years older than he actually was. What a great surprise!
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Apraxin posted:Goodness, it seems Peter Doig didn't paint that canvas while imprisoned in a detention facility in a province he'd never been too for a crime he'd never committed while being several years older than he actually was. What a great surprise! quote:Mr Fletcher's lawyer William Zieske said the lawsuit was brought in good faith and an appeal is possible.
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Where's the "No Doig!" headline, media? Dropping the ball.
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Forty‐one victims of the Aurora, CO cinema shooting of 2012 sued the cinema. Now four of them owe the cinema seven hundred thousand dollars in legal fees.
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Platystemon posted:Forty‐one victims of the Aurora, CO cinema shooting of 2012 sued the cinema. Why were the people suing in the cinema? For not using their minimum wage staff to stop a crazy guy with a bunch of guns? For not chaining the fire doors shut? This one is just bizarre to me.
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bbcisdabomb posted:Why were the people suing in the cinema? For not using their minimum wage staff to stop a crazy guy with a bunch of guns? For not chaining the fire doors shut? This one is just bizarre to me. Well, that's why they lost and now owe the fees. It sounds heartless, but this was extremely short sighted and dumb of them. I'm sympathetic to their trauma, but...yeah...don't really know what they were thinking here. Apparently they were all in agreement to accept a settlement, but then just one rejected the deal and it hosed them all.
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