Monthly Archives: January 2010

The law is sometimes an ass.

This is bad law.  The law in Kentucky is very similar.  Decisions like this tend to make criminals of people who do what we should want them to do if they are drunk and away from home.  Crawling into their … Continue reading

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Collection litigation

This type of behavior is becoming more common.  If it becomes common enough it will wreck our economic system.  Then again, I do think the banks and collection agencies do bear much of the blame for creating the atmosphere that … Continue reading

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Gasp!

Uh, what can I say about this?  OMG.

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More to the story

I hope there is more to this story than is reported here.  I can’t believe the military would proceed if the facts are as presented in the news story.

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Another one bites the dust

This story is becoming all too common today.  The bundling and selling of bad debt has led to many, many problems.  I suspect that this will happen more and more frequently and the bad debt market will shrink considerably because … Continue reading

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A terrible trend in the law

Third party litigation financing.  Read here.  This is a bad idea.  Hopefully this decision will put a halt to it.

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OMG

There isn’t anything else to say about this.

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A troubling trend

I’ve written previously regarding the terrible Kelo decision from the Supreme Court.  Unfortunately, we seem to be seeing more and more of these situations where governments are attempting to take property simply to in turn sell it to a developer.  … Continue reading

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We have met the enemy and he is the government

Every time I think I have gotten to the point at which nothing else done by a government to extract money from the citizens will shock me, along comes a government entity and sets the bar ever lower.  Read here.  … Continue reading

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A taxing problem

I don’t know how it is in other states, but failing to file your taxes for ten years will get you suspended from the practice of law in Kentucky.  More here.

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