Re: settlement - ludicrous!

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@mediaone.net>]

The judge had to accept the settlement, with complete authority to throw
it out. Plenty of legal precedent! The judicial process IS culpable.
(Also, the judge could/should have thrown the original case out rather
than make the defendants hostages to legal costs - that's also
culpability of the judicial process.) ANS, of course, these doses are
MUCH higher than those that we support for D&D cleanup, which is just as
dishonest an extortion of the public funds and trust!

Regards, Jim 
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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Robert A Scott wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 May 1999 17:52:02 -0500 (CDT) "Sandy Perle"
> <sandyfl@earthlink.net> writes:
> >What is wrong with our judicial system?
> 
>         Please note that this was a settlement, so it really resulted from
> attorneys on the two sides trying to decide what the total cost of
> jumping through all the legal hoops would be, vs. what a judge (who may
> or may not be biased in one direction or another) and a jury would do in
> this case.  It really is a guessing game, and the university probably
> decided that the cost of settlement in the long run would be less costly
> than all the costs of the case plus associated ramifications to its
> public relations.  We never know what goes into those decisions unless we
> are part of them.  So essentially the plaintiffs convinced the defendants
> that they would 'paper them to death' and bleed dry their resources.  I
> guess what I am driving at is that the result is outside the 'judicial
> system' from the standpoint of following courtroom rules and procedures.
> 
>         I don't support irrational settlements, either, but in this case I would
> say that the attorneys were more in tune with costs and public opinion
> than with science.
> 
> Bob Scott, RPO
> Roger Williams Medical Center
> Providence, Rhode Island
> bobscottchp@juno.com
> 
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