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Because Columbia was guilty AF. They sat on their hands as Hamas loving wackos took over their campus while intimidating, harassing and threatening Jewish students. Too weak and woke.
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I guess it's time to review the difference between civil and criminal liability.
Eventually you're going to get an entire first semester of law school here from the board. Which obviously you slept through.
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Do you genuinely think he doesn’t know?
I’m of the impression he’s a doddering troll.
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There's an obvious reason he didn't get into Harvard.
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They aren't even hiding it. Duke should tell Trump to stick it up his @$$...or there will never be the end of it.
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So, is it that you are against free speech or did I miss the news about all of the assaults and killings?
People have a right to voice their opinion. I don't recall reading about the Jewish students being assaulted, if they were then those people should have been charged with assault, the school wasn't responsible. And even worse the school shouldn't be shaken down by the President of the US.
Wasn't it trump that was whining about the justice department being used to go after personal vendettas? That's all he's done since being in office.
It's that mob boss mentality that he loves so much.
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All of these schools and law firms and tv networks should have stood up to him.
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Heck Columbia allowed two of its janitors to be held hostage by the students, then made them scrub all the swastikas off the walls placed there by the “kids.” Columbia just settled with them for an undisclosed sum.
Quite the expensive protests you got there Lions.
Quite the expensive protests you got there Lions.
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Easy for you to say, you’re a white, Christian guy living in north Atlanta. You have no idea he fear and intimidation the Jewish students felt during the “protests”
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I’ve tried two cases in the last two weeks. You play a lawyer on a message board (never practicing law in your career). Seems like you’re now mooching on your wife and being a tough guy online.
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Oh and you have emotional and mental issues. IQ ain’t everything.
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Ah, right.
The dude who lacks empathy and suckles at the teat of right-wing extremism and propaganda is now gonna lecture the board about emotional and mental issue.
You’re legit scum.
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I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN.
And I have had my share of fear and intimidation in my life.
I don't believe you know me well enough to make such statements.
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No, he knows that one. Some of the others, like concurrent jurisdiction, he didn't.
The point here is that true professionals don't use professional language carelessly even outside of work. Or at least they shouldn't. If we had an accountant on the board who would repeatedly say "evade" taxes as a synonym for "avoid" taxes -- what would you think of that person? You'd think they were maybe not actually an accountant, because no accountant would misuse language that way. It becomes so ingrained as to be second nature.
Or a physician who would refer to the antibiotic properties of Tamiflu? That's an antiviral, not an antibiotic. While laypeople might confuse the two terms, no doctor should. Never. That's a mistake for Fletch the doctor.
No attorney should ever mistake civil and criminal liability because the proper uses of those terms should be second nature. I never once had a law student refer to civil liability as "guilty." Not once. That's because, by the second year of law school, descriptors of liability have become second nature. And while I wasn't teaching at a school as dreadfully terrible as Mercer, it wasn't a top 20 law school either.
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Actually, I did practice law for a little while. First, I clerked on the DC Circuit. Then I worked at Wachtell Lipton Rosen and Katz, where I made as much $$ in two years than you make in a decade. Then I worked at Jones Day, alongside Trump SG Noel Francisco, Trump apppointed Judge Katsas and others. My name is on two more SCOTUS briefs than your name. I did not actually argue before the SCOTUS, true.
Oh, I bought real estate in Brooklyn in the early 2000s. Wanna guess how much money I made on that? It's true that my wife earns most of the income these days (except for my dividends). It's also true that she had about $75K of debt from her previous marriage, which I paid off with a check the day after we got married.
No person in their right mind would ever hire you as an attorney over me, because I could learn in one month everything you know and the reverse is not nearly true. And this is why we have bar admission requirements. It's to prevent lawyers like you from having to compete with lawyers like me, who are not licensed in Georgia.
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Quite apart from your comical terminology, it was not "liable AF." It's a complex fact-intensive inquiry that could go either way in court (based on my limited knowledge). But the remedy for that is NOT the termination of all federal funding. There are remedies provided for by law, and a single violation does not result in that sort of remedy (unless there is willful defiance, as in the case of Bob Jones U). That's why Trump had to break the law to withhold that money, and why it is so tragic that SCOTUS has decided to no longer be a judicial body.
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I should add that there is a consequence to the garbage terminology. Criminal liability is frequently (perhaps usually) binary. Like, if you're criminally liable for anything more than a trivial misdemeanor, the fact of conviction is harmful even if the sentence is light. Civil liability, by contrast, is a matter of gradation. IIRC, the USFL actually prevailed in its antitrust case against the NFL. It was awarded $1 in damages -- i.e. essentially nothing (which would have been true even for $100K or even $1M for the deep pockets of the NFL).
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Ooh, what a burn, highlighting something that I freely admit to as part of my way of dealing with my condition.
Look, if you wouldn't spout off on topics you know nothing about, I wouldn't have reason to school you. And even if I did, I wouldn't. Posters who make mistakes minus the arrogance of ignorance don't get mocked by me. It's just a mistake. Everyone makes them. It's the true bullshitters that draw my ire, and that's independent of ideology (roughly speaking). I was as hard as Ovshinsky on the old board as any right winger.
Or maybe you could at least make some effort to be factually or analytically sound. Like, if your posts were simply incorrect rather than horseshit, it changes the meaning of your posting.