It’s been explained at least three times in the thread already. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, you could do a search.
Heh. I’d be tempted to specify where to search.
Last in, last out, the sequential process of digestion. The third dig would have reached even the last thing he ate… dessert. Friend, your mind went in a less palatable direction?
I smell a new meme – google your ass …
City and county have settled for $1.6 million.
From that story, a lawsuit against the doctors and the hospital is still ongoing.
I’d say that the city and county got off way too easy.
The town has a population of just under 15,000. I would guess that $1.6 million is a tough pill for them to swallow. I just hope that Eckert is smart enough to move to a different town.
From the article:
Sounds like a Christmas carol to me.
I’m glad that the victim in this case was compensated but it would be better if those responsible faced criminal charges.
I currently have a case against the aliens who gave me “The Ol’ 3-2-1”, as they called it.
Looking to settle for ◊1.6 million. This thread gives me hope (but not an attorney yet. Any volunteers?).
I’m whistling past the graveyard here; my real hope is that David Eckert can get on with his life, and I wish there was jail time for those involved.
Maybe those two cops got off, too. 
Odds are the police force have insurance against compensation pay-outs, or the cost will be shared by other police forces. I doubt this money will be coming out of school funds. Otherwise people in small towns would be pressured never to sue even after extreme events like this, and they’d have no real hope of ever being compensated either.
I wouldn’t make a bet on this. A lot of cities and government agencies “self-insure” without thinking of the consequences if something actually goes bad. And I’d be really surprised if cost sharing among the local police included settlement payouts for the actions of abusive cops.
Does anyone know of updates for some of the recent, similar cases?
This is one of them:
http://www.elpasotimes.com/latestnews/ci_24750069/woman-sues-over-drug-search-after-crossing-at
I never got that kind of attention when I was in El Paso.
I thought there was one more.
The city I’m in a few years ago had a mayor and city counsel that made themselves lawsuit targets (mostly by illegal union busting and some really poor and not very legal employment decisions, but they did some other really stupid “someone should sue” shit - and you know, someone did). The city was insured and the stupid mayor and city counsel made a big deal about how this “didn’t cost us anything.”
Except an increase in premiums and the League of Minnesota cities required a new mayor and city counsel majority to RENEW any insurance. Oh, and the new mayor and city counsel was required to grovel for the actions of the old administration.
The money is nice, but those involved should still see serious jail time, not to mention loss of jobs, being banned from law enforcement anywhere, etc.
Nearly all US municipalities are self-insured. It’s not really that big a problem because their parent states guarantee their debts anyway.
How is it that cities declare bankruptcy on occasion?
I misspoke. I was under the impression that most states did not authorize municipal bankrupcties under Chapter 9, and were thus liable for municipal debts. However, it appears there are now 26 states which do allow municipal bankruptcy, so it could very well be a problem.