Comments on: NYC lawyer loses $100K suit over healthclub that stopped supplying yogurt and cereal

By: Benjamin Eugene NElson

Benjamin Eugene NElson — Mon, 28 May 2012 23:42:00 +0000

what does it take to be disbarred?

Ask Jack Thompson.

By: Benjamin Eugene NElson

Benjamin Eugene NElson — Mon, 28 May 2012 23:41:00 +0000

[citation needed.]

Sounds like a urban legend to me.

By: dainel

dainel — Mon, 28 May 2012 13:48:00 +0000

How many emails did he sent? What were in those emails? Given that he already paid for membership, can she just cancel his membership just like that? Did they refund the membership fee he paid?

What did she say in the email that amounts to defamation? We need more details.

You guys see this as a lawyer being a dick for suing over a small matter. But I see it differently. What if you find yourself in dispute with your club, and they suddenly just decided to cancel your membership in response?

By: elix

elix — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:32:00 +0000

This idiot is cut from the same sputtering-moron cloth as that derpface who tried to sue the dry cleaners for millions because of an incredibly minor quibble. #firstworldproblems doesn’t even begin to cover “$100,000 in damages because of a change in the snack bar menu.”

#entitledlawyerassholeproblems more like it.

By: digi_owl

digi_owl — Sat, 26 May 2012 08:02:00 +0000

Must be trying to atone for their initial sins.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Sat, 26 May 2012 06:05:00 +0000

I’ve started using “1x 2TB drive”

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Sat, 26 May 2012 06:04:00 +0000

[citation needed]

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sat, 26 May 2012 01:21:00 +0000

This is becoming one (1) boring thread. ^-^

By: Scott Bartlett

Scott Bartlett — Sat, 26 May 2012 01:06:00 +0000

I’m here looking up from my first world problems and shaking my head in disbelief.

By: ludwigk

ludwigk — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:50:00 +0000

That is not uncommon in contract drafting where amounts of things, dates, ordinals, and headings with numbers might be swimming around the document.

By: ludwigk

ludwigk — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:45:00 +0000

It’s potentially double-hearsay, since the blog is repeating what the attorney said the judge said. But really, it’s not hearsay, as it is neither being offered into evidence, nor being used to prove the truth of the statement

By: Petzl

Petzl — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:27:00 +0000

You people who are all deriding the lawyer are forgetting one thing:
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:11:00 +0000

…also work for the ACLU and the EFF.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:07:00 +0000

A group of lawyers went suing every restaurant, offering to drop the suits for a few thou. Most restaurants complied.

Gotta be one of the most infuriating things I’ve heard so far this year. Gleefully abusing the system with malice… what does it take to be disbarred?

Lets not forget that the government is full of these monsters.

Gotta be the most depressing bit of insightful perspective.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:29:00 +0000

Seven billion (7,000,000,000) to go.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Don’t be a peen.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:56:00 +0000

I do it for fun sometimes. First came across it in references to invoices from the turn of the last century and found it inexplicably charming. Norton Juster used it in The Phantom Tollbooth in the titular booth’s shipping manifest.

“One (1) genuine turnpike tollbooth,
Three (3) precautionary signs, to be used in a precautionary fashion,” etc.

It kinda emphasizes the formal legalese, I suppose. I had occasion last week to use the convention when ordering some large external firewire drives via email. To avoid confusion, I wrote that I needed “three (3) 2TB drives and one (1) 3TB drive.” I suppose I could have written “3 2TB drives and 1 3TB drive,” but I like to avoid potential embarrassment for my vendors. Call it an overabundance of caution coupled with a fusty state of outdatedness. You may have noticed that I still put two spaces after every period, too.

By: Gtmac

Gtmac — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:54:00 +0000

That’s one (1) more idiot identified.

By: ChicagoD

ChicagoD — Fri, 25 May 2012 19:10:00 +0000

You nailed it.

HA!

By: Nell Anvoid

Nell Anvoid — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:49:00 +0000

I understood him. Geez.

By: Nell Anvoid

Nell Anvoid — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:47:00 +0000

…better learn when and how to use it properly.

By: Mitchell Glaser

Mitchell Glaser — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:40:00 +0000

Exactly. Many lawyers are true terrorists, or qualify as organized criminals at the very least. Here in L.A. a group of lawyers went down main street suing every restaurant (it doesn’t matter for what), then offering to drop the suits for a few thousand dollars. And most of the restaurants complied, as putting up even a minimal defense would cost them much more. Welcome to justice in America! And lets not forget that the government is full of these monsters.

By: Ipo

Ipo — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:20:00 +0000

two (2)

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:39:00 +0000

I wonder how the first “incident” went when the person behind the register/food bar said we no longer have your usual yogurt and cereal…
Something tells me it wasn’t a calm rational reaction.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:36:00 +0000

I’d wake up my neighbors,
pounding out a rhythm,
all about you.

By: ChicagoD

ChicagoD — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:38:00 +0000

I am still trying to wrap my mind around sending so many irritating emails (about yogurt and cereal) that your membership is cancelled. That’s a long, slow temper tantrum. Suing is just the final act of throwing yourself to the floor and holding your breath.

What a jackass.

By: ChicagoD

ChicagoD — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:36:00 +0000

When all you’ve got is the phrase “when all you’ve got is a hammer . . .”

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:03:00 +0000

he still wrote “two (2) weeks.” Why do people do this?

To emphasize their temper tantrums.

By: Mark Dow

Mark Dow — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:49:00 +0000

If you haven’t picked up the habit of using the word “hearsay” yet, don’t.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:48:00 +0000

1%er wannabe.