Corporations are “people” in a legal sense, and it’s a good thing they are, because you wouldn’t want to try to individually sue all of a company’s shareholders if the company had wronged you and you were seeking legal recourse.
Nobody told Sec. of State, Marco ‘big shoes’ Rubio someone was there to represent the US. Also attending were noted Trump remora Candace Owens and this fat boy.
Raplying to Smapti, yes I absolutely would want to sue the investors if a cororation wronged me. A limited liability corporation is a mechanism, defined by statute law, for laying off risk. So that the investors are not out anything more than what they have invested. This has both pros and cons, but it has nothing to do with the consumer at all.
And what is defined by law can also be modified by law, and it is past time to do that. Citizens United and John Roberts be damned.
Attorneys for musician Chuck Redd say a D.C. Superior Court judge dismissed a breach of contract lawsuit filed against Redd after he canceled a Christmas Eve performance at the Kennedy Center in protest of President Donald Trump’s influence over the venue.
The dismissal on Friday was granted under Washington’s Anti-SLAPP laws, which are designed to prevent meritless lawsuits intended to silence opposing points of view on matters of public interest
Something that I learned today that goes hand in hand with the bit you posted here (I cut content that wasn’t relative to this factoid) is that Trump’s attorneys are claiming that Trump could bulldoze the Statue of Liberty, and that no one in government or the judicial branch could stop him.
My wife and I are currently watching The Man in the High Castle. We’ve already seen the episode where Lady Liberty was blown up. Last night, we saw the episode with what replaced her. And, yet, that monstrosity is still not as tacky as anything Rip van Simple has managed to put up or plans to put up.
So like… never? Those magical railguns that are supposed to be mounted on the Trumpy-Wumpy class are vaporware right now. Also, I thought Trump already knew the dangers of mixing magnets and water!
Lest anyone not click that link the reason for Pete’s bloodthirst is explained below,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in September he would be seeking the execution of Nidal Hassan, who was sentenced to death for the Fort Hood mass shooting in 2009 which left 13 dead and 32 injured, according to The Hill.
“I am 100% committed to ensuring the death penalty is carried out for Nidal Hasan,” Hegseth said. “The victims and survivors deserve justice without delays.”
Since these executions require Hegseth to request and receive Presidential authorization we can be pretty sure which two on the list are getting executed,
The other three death row inmates are: Ronald Gray (Sentenced 1988): A former Army cook convicted of two murders, an attempted murder, and rape in the Fayetteville, North Carolina area. Hasan Akbar (Sentenced 2005): Convicted of premeditated murder for a 2003 grenade and rifle attack on his fellow soldiers in Kuwait, killing two officers and wounding 14 others. Timothy Hennis (Sentenced 2010): A former Master Sergeant who was convicted in 1989 for a 1985 triple murder and rape in North Carolina, acquitted, then later reconvicted based on new DNA evidence.
I’m having a hard time getting worked up about this one. The four inmates currently awaiting a death sentence are;
Ronald Gray, who kidnapped, raped, and murdered an 18-year-old private and a 23-year-old civilian and attempted to do the same to a 20-year-old private
Hasan Akbar, who fragged his own unit in Kuwait in 2003, killing two officers and injuring 14 other soldiers with four hand grenades and a riflle
Timothy Hennis, who responded to an ad for a dog up for adoption and used it as a pretense to get into a woman’s home and rape and murder her and her 5-year-old and 3-year-old daughters
Nidal Hasan, who shot and killed 13 of his fellow soldiers in an Islamist terror attack at Ft. Hood
I disagree. Some people don’t deserve to live after what they’ve done. There’s no question that any of them are guilty and the sentence was unanimously approved by a jury and by the flag officer who convened their courts-martial. They’ve received due process and the punishment fits the crime.
Timothy Hennis, a former master sergeant who worked on parachutes in the 82nd Airborne Division, was convicted in 1986 in North Carolina state court of raping a woman and murdering her and two of her daughters. The conviction was later overturned for insufficient evidence, and a 1989 retrial ended in an acquittal.
Years later, preserved evidence was retested using DNA analysis not available at the time, prompting renewed scrutiny of the case.
Although double jeopardy protections barred another state prosecution, U.S. military prosecutors can still charge a former service member if the offense was committed while the service member was on active duty. Hennis, who had honorably left the Army in 2004, was recalled to active duty and tried again in military court where he was convicted and sentenced to die.
Tried, overturned, retried, acquitted, but what’s a little forced tripple double jeopardy between friends?
Acquitted in state court, retried in federal court which provides an exception to double jeopardy, 16 years later, after DNA evidence that wasn’t testable in 1989 proved incontrovertibly that he was guilty.
