Another proud member of the irony-based community.
[F]act testimony, no matter how thoroughly contradicted or impeached, may create an issue for the jury, so long as it is not supernatural.-- The Sherwin-Williams Company v. Trellvion Gaines (Miss. Sept. 8, 2011) at ¶18.
... This decision reverses the $7M lead-poisoning verdict against Sherwin-Williams down in Jefferson County back in 2009. Worth a look for lawyers re: "gatekeeping" on expert testimony.
"Mysterious Jackson area lawyer's blog about history, literature, and whatever irks him." -- NMC
"Just a hypersensitive pantywaist probably of Gallic descent who still suffers nightmares over what Gaius Julius did to your people 2,000 years ago." -- Kingfish
And therefore, reader, I myself am the subject of my book; it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.
-- Montaigne, Essays, "To the Reader.""I shall see myself, I shall read myself, I shall go into ecstacies, and I shall ask -- Is it possible that I have so much ésprit?"
-- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.... the torturer has become – like the pirate and slave trader before him – hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind.
-- Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876, 890 (2d Cir. 1980)
Odd day yesterday. They also said that the dissent's interpretation of constitution contravened the laws of physics, and chastised a party named "Speed" for demanding that they hurry.
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