The existence of corporations as independent legal entities that can sue and be sued can sometimes create some strange situations. In Integrity Dominion Funds, LLC v. Lazy Deuce Capital Co. (previously covered here), the effort of plaintiff in this investment gone bad is coming up on its second birthday. Integrity Dominion Funds’ case is still alive […]
A client comes to you saying that she is owed $1,000,000.00 for services rendered, the other side, her deadbeat customer, has no basis to object to the bill, no basis not to pay, but has the nerve to propose settling for $800,000.00. That’s a joke, right? They’re asking for a 20% discount for no reason. […]
We are all going to die and giving just a moment’s thought to this certain and momentous (but also, paradoxically, cosmically insignificant) future condition should presumably lessen your dull day-to-day frustrations a smidge (your spouse’s bad habits, the irritating whining of a co-worker, the insane packaging of many consumer electronic devices, or even, maybe, your […]
I am not sure I have the patience and tenacity of William Rydrych of Eagan, Minnesota. In 2006, Mr. Rydrych first sued Twin Cities’ attorney, Scott Strouts, and Rydrych won a judgment against Mr. Strouts, who, at the time, was sole shareholder of GK Cab Co., Inc. and Spike Holding Corp., Inc. (two cab companies) […]
Adem Ali owned a piece of property in downtown Minneapolis that he tried to sell several times to Aba Hashim, who leased a part of the property and who operated a bakery there. The Ali/Hashim deals never went through. In one of these deals, Ali and Hashim devised a plan whereby the property would pass […]
The subject line of this post is intended as an oxymoron — kind of like saying, “the future of the Minoan civilization.” (At left, one notes that dealing with an unreal amount of bull appears to be a shared trait of these two extinct cultures.) Seriously, the revolution that has been and that will continue to […]
Questioning lawyer (“QL”) questioning “Witness” (Plaintiff Jone’s co-worker and eye witness to an accident): What was Jones repairing when you came into the shop? Opposing Counsel (“OC”): Objection, calls for expert testimony. Court: Counsel, approach the bench…
Update (November 8, 2013): Otto Von Bismarck is credited with this witty insight: “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made” (at least on some website of seriously dubious authority). It’s a clever turn of phrase but, really, not all that brilliant. We all know that legislation is the product of […]
The much-covered Ventura/Kyle kerfuffle continues. But the attached supplemental expert report of Prof. David Schultz highlights an interesting problem with all defamation or disparagement cases. Proving (or disproving) damages or harm from defamation or disparagement is not easy. If only there were a reputational seismometer! Maybe there is?
It is not often that civil litigators get tangled up in the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. They are, after all, CIVIL litigators and many of them went that route due to a lack of passion or interest in anything criminal. Having said that, civil litigators must have proper knowledge of and respect for the […]