Day on Torts

No, I’m not dead, just a little tired.  I have been in Cincinnati the last two days, preparing a witness one day and attending his deposition on the second day.  I did not get home until 8:15 last night and am feeling the effects of spending two long days on the road.

Today I play catch-up until I hit the road at 3:00 to go the Knoxville for the UT – LSU game tomorrow afternoon. 

I will be back next week with information you can use to better serve your clients.

Here is another blog on tort reform.

The introduction:  "Tort reform” has become a staple of Republican politics. Limits on lawsuits are offered as a solution to everything from the health care crisis and economic stagnation to America’s moral decline. Americans overwhelmingly believe that the nation is awash in frivolous lawsuits.

And that’s just where The Tortellini comes in. Because most of what you’ve heard about “lawsuit abuse” is wrong. The majority sentiment on legal reform comes courtesy of a long disinformation campaign by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other big business sponsors like the tobacco, insurance and automobile industries. These folks have managed to convince voters from to Hawaii to Maine that plaintiffs in civil actions are whiners, hustlers, and layabouts, and that their attempts to win the “lawsuit lottery” have created a “litigation explosion.”

The Davidson County jury list includes an unusual entry this week.

Each prospective juror is supposed to complete a questionnaire and then a jury list is completed with includes  the stated employment of the juror and the juror’s spouse.  One juror listed his employment as "Professor."  He listed his wife’s employment as "Disciple of Satan."

Turns out they are going through a divorce.

The passing game coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys has sued McDonalds after his family found a 6-inch rat in a salad.

Appparently "rat salad" was not on the menu.

The rat was not discovered until the salad was taken home.  Some of the salad was consumed  by the coach’s wife and a live-in babysitter before the rat was discovered.

Notre Dame beat Navy, just like they have done every year since 1963. 

I guess if you beat a team 43 years in a row you have a reason to be proud . . . of the person who negotiates your football schedule.

I drove to Atlanta last night so that I could attend two days of meetings preparing for an upcoming class certification hearing in St. Louis.  We are going to work at polishing our team’s arguments for the hearing and testing our visual aids. 

On Thursday night I will be coming back to Nashville because we have a mediation in a medical negligence case set for Friday.  Then off to Cincinnati next week to defend a deposition in a business litigation matter.

That, added to the top of spending three days in West Tennessee and two days in Dallas last week, has me dragging a little bit.  Travel doesn’t have the excitement it once did.