Comments on: Friday's (Com)motions

By: Clio

Clio — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:59:25 +0000

“Affects” is the correct word, Craig. To affect means to influence or to shape. To effect means to bring about or to accomplish.

I hate to be such a pedantic schoolmarm (circa 1895) with my tweed suit and hair in a bun, but someone has got to do it.

I think that the defense lawyers knew that this case, however lucrative, was a lost cause from day one, and, hence, their own self-love and self-image will not be affected by the outcome. Bernie has already moved on apparently, given his sudden lack of engagement. Will Schertler and Spag be the next ones “to check out” emotionally?

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:28:19 +0000

You got to wonder how Friday’s failure to dismiss effects the confidence of the defense.

Or is that affects? Clio?

By: David

David — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:43:16 +0000

Clio and Bea,

I think Bea is right, that it was the best shot they had, but Lynn let them know under no uncertain terms that this was settled as case law more than 70 years ago. She wasn’t going to cotton to any more of these ridiculous arguments, thus wasting her and the court’s time.

David

By: Bea

Bea — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:04:13 +0000

Without doing the research, I’m guessing it’s the best they had. These are good lawyers.

By: Clio

Clio — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:43:10 +0000

Why did the defense rely so heavily on Andrews v. United States? It’s almost as if they are NOT even trying to win. Lynn, thanks for moving this BS along to its final conclusion.

By: Clio

Clio — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:53:45 +0000

CD, thanks. Joe’s involvement in that Iran case is astonishingly ironic, at least from an historian’s perspective. The most infamous exporting-to-Iran case involved financier Marc Rich, and I’m sure Joe as a mediocre corporate cog was probably NOT involved in that one. It was above Joe’s pay grade. But as you may recall, President Clinton pardoned Rich in a last-minute move facilitated by none other than Eric Holder, former Wone lawyer and current Attorney General of the United States. Holder’s confirmation was briefly in doubt, as you may recall, because of his role in this shady pardon.

By: CDinDC

CDinDC — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:21:45 +0000

That was me, Bea. It was, coincidentally, a felony conspiracy trial. Not conspiracy related to a murder, but conspiracy, nonetheless. The company in question was charged with exporting equipment to Iran. (Which I find a very strange case to be involved with if the majority of his case experience was with civil IP cases….did he know someone involved?)

However, that was all that I could find that has Joe attached to it in any significant way other than the Miller/Jenkins case.

By: Clio

Clio — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:18:57 +0000

Well, from the latest video snippets, Schertler already has pawned Joe off onto his vassal Spag, who (as a gay man) can better feign sympathy for the disgraced bottom.

By: Clio

Clio — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:35:22 +0000

Yes, those deck chairs (or uncomfortable stools!) on the Swann’s Titanic still need rearranging: Joe, you may be as bad a lawyer as you are a friend, after all!

By: CDinDC

CDinDC — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:49:17 +0000

Makes it all the more delicious to think if they go down, he helped in crafting the sinking ship.