Comments on: May 6 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2008/05/may-6-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=may-6-roundup Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 13:04:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Deoxy http://overlawyered.com/2008/05/may-6-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-11782 Deoxy Tue, 06 May 2008 10:09:30 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=6183#comment-11782 On the Rosenblatts: "Incredibly, the fees would come out of a common "guaranteed fund" of about $800 million that Big Tobacco put up as legally required collateral..." Um, if it was "collateral", shouldn't it be returned to the companies that put it up? Otherwise, isn't it just a fee (a huge fee just for the right to appeal a bad judgement)? Why is the judge getting to decide what to do with it?!? On the Rosenblatts:

“Incredibly, the fees would come out of a common “guaranteed fund” of about $800 million that Big Tobacco put up as legally required collateral…”

Um, if it was “collateral”, shouldn’t it be returned to the companies that put it up? Otherwise, isn’t it just a fee (a huge fee just for the right to appeal a bad judgement)?

Why is the judge getting to decide what to do with it?!?

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