Thread of legal hubbub

Postby **slappybrown** » Sat Sep 02, 2017 2:37 pm

Thanks for the info and advice. Not in dire need of the money, it's more the principle of the matter and that they've been crappy to deal with since I've been there. Just want to be done with them.

No worries. Your best hook may be that they already blew the date and (1) have waived their right to any education and (2) are subject to any penalties in the statute because it was 32 days and not 30.

Good luck. I got in this same type of fight once upon a time in NYC.

Postby **dodint** » Sun Sep 03, 2017 11:20 pm

Postby **Shyster** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:52 pm

Postby **dodint** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:10 pm

Postby **tifosi77** » Wed Sep 06, 2017 1:45 pm

While the latter is 'not explicitly forbidden', you'd be inviting scrutiny if you were producing content that intimated underage participants. There's a whole thing in the anime/hentai world of drawn/rendered comics/games/visual novels/etc where authors create characters that are visually quite obviously meant to read as underage, but in the opening of the work they have a disclosure that 'all characters are over 18'. It's really kinda funny, in an arbitrarily gross kind of way.

It was around ten years ago that I interviewed with Playboy to be a '2257 compliance coordinator'. (Section of USC defining record keeping requirements for people who depict sexy time) Basically, the job would've been verifying model's ID documents, and establishing that they were at least 18. I didn't really put any thought into it when I applied, but after the interviews I was like, "Yeah, I don't really think I want to do this so much."

Edit: Really awkward typo.

Postby **Shyster** » Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:11 pm

Bryan Garner will be doing his "Advanced Legal Writing & Editing" CLE seminar at the Omni William Penn on November 7. It's not cheap at roughly $800 for 5.5 hours of CLE, but I think this is one of the most useful programs out there. I drove to Cleveland to take it back in 2011, and I might go again now that it's in Pittsburgh.

http://www.lawprose.org/wordpress/wp-co ... l-2017.pdf

Postby **tifosi77** » Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:18 pm

From this paraphraser's perspective, legal writing is a sort of O-neg skill. Every professional can benefit from being better at it. (As the wonky construction of that last sentence proves)

Postby **blackjack68** » Wed Sep 06, 2017 9:02 pm

Let's get past this page so I can go back to reading this thread at work. All the pron talk kicked the work filters on.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Sep 06, 2017 9:04 pm

Yeah, even if the text is gone I'm not sure that bell we be unrung with the filters.

Postby **MWB** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:09 am

Thanks for the info and advice. Not in dire need of the money, it's more the principle of the matter and that they've been crappy to deal with since I've been there. Just want to be done with them.
No worries. Your best hook may be that they already blew the date and (1) have waived their right to any education and (2) are subject to any penalties in the statute because it was 32 days and not 30.

Good luck. I got in this same type of fight once upon a time in NYC.

Update: They ignored my emails and calls about the timing of the notification and just sent me a check for 40% of my security deposit. Money was deducted for flooring replacement, "remove pet odor," shampoo carpet, replace light bulbs, and clean lint from dryer vent, among other things. I had the carpets professionally cleaned and deodorized and haven't had a pet there in a year and a half. I hate this place.

Postby **slappybrown** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 10:13 am

Thanks for the info and advice. Not in dire need of the money, it's more the principle of the matter and that they've been crappy to deal with since I've been there. Just want to be done with them.
No worries. Your best hook may be that they already blew the date and (1) have waived their right to any education and (2) are subject to any penalties in the statute because it was 32 days and not 30.

Good luck. I got in this same type of fight once upon a time in NYC.
Update: They ignored my emails and calls about the timing of the notification and just sent me a check for 40% of my security deposit. Money was deducted for flooring replacement, "remove pet odor," shampoo carpet, replace light bulbs, and clean lint from dryer vent, among other things. I had the carpets professionally cleaned and deodorized and haven't had a pet there in a year and a half. I hate this place.

Wow. Keep at it. I would tee it up like this: (1) they failed to comply with the statute and so the entire deposit is due and owing without consideration of these alleged damages and (2) even if that were not the case these deductions are absurd. Good luck.

Postby **MWB** » Sat Sep 16, 2017 11:12 am

Ha, yeah, that is the letter I just wrote. We'll see how they respond.

Postby **MWB** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 8:18 am

Their response to me was to ask for me to provide them with the pre move in inspection form that I filled out. I told them that they should have a copy of it in the file since I sent it back to them. They said they didn’t, so there’s no evidence of anything being wrong with the place when I moved in. My response was that I would look for it (I’m not sure what happened to my copy, but wasn’t able to find it), but that I had several emails exchanged that referenced the report and that it didn’t really matter because they didn’t notify me when they were supposed to. Their response was, ok, we’ll be sending out a check for the rest of the deposit. I got the check yesterday. Mark one down for the little man.

Postby **slappybrown** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 9:13 am

Great work man, glad to hear you got the full amount

Postby **columbia** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 10:33 am

I paid an overdue speeding ticket from SC earlier on the week. In the meantime, the state mailed a notice that my license had been suspended there. I hope that I can make this go away with just a phone call - largely because I need to go to SC next weekend and don't want to end up up in some county jail.

Postby **tifosi77** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:34 am

*high five*, well done MWB.

Postby **MWB** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 4:47 pm

Thanks, but don’t think I deserve any well dones. I’m just annoyed that they must get away with this crap on a regular basis and people don’t usually fight back. Certainly happy with the outcome, but wish these types of places wouldn’t try to prey on people.

Postby **willeyeam** » Sat Sep 23, 2017 10:59 pm

I paid an overdue speeding ticket from SC earlier on the week. In the meantime, the state mailed a notice that my license had been suspended there. I hope that I can make this go away with just a phone call - largely because I need to go to SC next weekend and don't want to end up up in some county jail.

This exact thing happened to my dad on a family vacation like fifteen years ago. We just moved so the license suspension was mailed to the old address and he didn't know. Asshats cuffed him in front of my mom and little bro and sister and sped away while my mom was trying to follow. Good times. So yeah, pay that

Postby **Shyster** » Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:47 pm

New batch of judicial nominations, including the nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett to the Fifth Circuit. If approved (and he should be) Don Willett would probably become the most libertarian-leaning judge on the Courts of Appeal. Above The Law is not exactly friendly to the Trump administration, but as the article notes, Trump's judicial nominations have been pretty darn good (from a conservative/libertarian perspective, at least).

https://abovethelaw.com/2017/09/a-surpr ... nees/?rf=1

Postby **dodint** » Thu Sep 28, 2017 10:18 pm

Conservative probably is more operative than libertarian-leaning here.

Postby **Shyster** » Thu Sep 28, 2017 11:08 pm

True for most of them. I'm not saying any of them are pure libertarians, but some of them like Don Willett are probably as close as one would get.

Trump Nominates Libertarian-Minded Texas Justice Don Willett to U.S. Appellate Court
http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/28/trump ... nded-texas

Postby **dodint** » Thu Sep 28, 2017 11:15 pm

Yeah, not complaining. Just looking at the context. Texas gunna Texas, son.

Postby **BigMck** » Sat Oct 07, 2017 3:45 am

If I have taken Slinuminumrectis, now known to cause dragging knuckle syndrome, and was unaware that a Class Action Lawsuit was filed by some Attorney group from Boston, can I, as an individual, still sue the producer of the drug?

A) not aware of any lawsuit due to no awareness.

B) aware, but not going to join the lawsuit because the offer from the settlement is well below acceptability for my symptoms that I suffer from.

Postby **dodint** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 8:51 pm

Law school, still being weird, as this is a thing I just wrote with full sincerity: "As a result of the instant case the legislature would be encouraged to draft an exception to the rule allowing adult children of step-parents to engage in sexual activity with those step-parents without fear of prosecution from the government, if they so choose."

Postby **tifosi77** » Sun Oct 15, 2017 5:59 pm

Not that I've pondered this much, but I don't understand why some jurisdictions criminalize that.