So the katrina victims came up with a price

[Zok]

Katrina victim sues U.S. for $3 quadrillion :eek: - Federal government hit with 489,000 damage claims after hurricane



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22571349/

They didn't have the smiley. I think it adds something to the headline.

[Fish]

wow...the gwp (Gross world product) is only something like 60 trillion dollars...meaning that if that guy wins, he will be awarded the entire world economy, 50 times over.

...And then I'll sue him for anti-trust, for the sum of 600 VIGINTILLION dollars, and will thereafter we awarded the solar system.

[Zok]

Think he'll win? :p

[Fish]

just for the sake of argument...what do you think would even happen if he did win? How do you give someone more money than exists in all the world? Is the court allowed to tell him that he's won, but that he has to change the number? Or is that number taken into account when determining whether he wins or not? This sounds like a question for Sephiroth. Not the FF7 Sephiroth, the totse one.

[Zok]

22:03 <Sephiroth> the judge would use his discretion to control the actual damage award
22:04 <Sephiroth> he could make it something smaller, like say $33 million or something like that
22:09 <zok_> What if the judge ruled 3 quadrillion?
22:09 <Sephiroth> the award is appealable
22:10 <Sephiroth> the Courts have broad discretion in this area, it's what's known as the equity power

[Sephiroth]

just for the sake of argument...what do you think would even happen if he did win? How do you give someone more money than exists in all the world? Is the court allowed to tell him that he's won, but that he has to change the number? Or is that number taken into account when determining whether he wins or not? This sounds like a question for Sephiroth. Not the FF7 Sephiroth, the totse one.To answer another question embedded in this post, the number, in so far as I know though it may vary by state, would not be taken into account by a jury or judge in deciding whether the man's claim has merit. Merit (the actual substance of the claim) and relief (the solution proposed by the plaintiff) are severable issues in most cases. The court could decide that the case is frivolous and/or dismiss it for lack of merit generally, but only by first finding that that the plaintiff has no justiciable claim (i.e. that he has suffered no real injury that the court is empowered to correct or mollify), not by taking into account the particular relief he is requesting. They could dismiss it either because his alleged cause of action (the reason he claims he's suing) is flatly ridiculous (e.g. "I'm suing the government, because Bush intentionally blew up the levies so that the flood waters would drive the zombies from New Orleans' famous grave yards out of their mausoleums to terrorise the public and one of them ate my dog, so Bush owes me"), or because he has no standing to sue, which hangs on things like whether he has suffered a "particularized and personal injury" that the courts can correct or has suffered the same kind of harm that everybody else has by a given event, thus making the decision of his case by itself a kind of special treatment that wouldn't be proper. If the judge finds that the person's claim has enough conceivable merit, then he can allow the plaintiff to set the question before him or a jury to decide based on the facts of the case. If the jury finds that his claim is indeed true and that he deserves some kind of recompense, then the trial enters the damages phase. This is like how a criminal trial moves from the guilt phase to the penalty phase. It is not until here that the actual desired amount is presented to the jury. Because at this point, the trial court will have already found in favour of the plaintiff on the merits of the case, the proposed damage award will be treated as a separate matter, just as in a murder trial, where, ideally, a jury or judge will not make their decision of guilt or innocence based on the kind of penalty the defendant would be facing if convicted. Here, the judge can order the plaintiff to present a more reasonable request for relief before the Court and then present it to the jury for consideration. If the man has standing and a justiciable claim that he can win in this case, then that is probably how this suit will turn out.

[Fish]

Thanks for your in-depth reply, Seph. I knew we could count on you.

[Mirana]

All hail nigger!

[ComradeAsh]

Frankly, I think that all claims made should be settled for $1.

What kind of idiot builds below sea level. The dutch do that!

[Fetus-Smasher]

Omg fux0rz ban banz lolololol.

Anyone wanna bet 5 "thanks" not a fuckin thing happens?

[Drox]

Is this what Zoklet looked like before the migration? Zok and Fish and a few others being the only posters?

That's sad.

[Agent 008]

Is this what Zoklet looked like before the migration? Zok and Fish and a few others being the only posters?

That's sad.

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4923/totsecomicsio0.png

[Frank]

:mad:Wrong forum:mad:

That much money will not be given to anyone for any reason.

[The English Gentleman]

Those New Orleans black people claiming all this cash must really embarrass other black people...

[cosmo]

I like these random blasts from the past because it makes me think for a brief moment that Zok still cares.

[brandon]

thatsalot

[NamelessNom4d]

Oh wow.... lol :facepalm: