Be thankful that you don't know; I'd hate to be on a jury for a complex and long running case.
But at least none of the evidence is likely to be traumatic. Serve on a Federal grand jury and you may see things that you'd rather not. Yeah, McDonald's looks different once you know that they were warned that the coffee was well above industry standard temperature and that there were prior injuries. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 6, 2022 8:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM ordered to pay $1.6b to BMC Indeed. I've long ago concluded that I DON'T KNOW what's going on behind the scenes. For example, we love to repeat horror stories about legal decisions that have everyone exclaiming "miscarriage of justice" - but often enough when I learn of some of the background details, I realize our judgement isn't so obvious and inevitable after all. That jury decision, for instance, about the lady who sued MacDonald's after hot coffee landed in her lap. Or the infamous Klan-Nazi trial decision. Heck, I've BEEN on juries that came to decisions I felt the need to explain afterward. So nowadays when I hear of some inexplicable legal outcome, I tend to suppose there are details I didn't know about. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* The main thing we learn from a serious attempt to practise the Christian virtues is that we fail. If there was any idea that God had set us a sort of exam and that we might get good marks by deserving them, that has to be wiped out. If there was any idea of a sort of bargain -- any idea that we could perform our side of the contract and thus put God in our debts so that it was up to Him, in mere justice, to perform his side -- that has to be wiped out. -C S Lewis, "Christian Behavior" */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Monday, June 6, 2022 08:21 ....I doubt that anybody on the list is in a posiiion to make more than an educated guess about the final outcome. Even with knowledge of all the facts in the case predictions would be dicey because of, e.g., excluded evidence. The only prediction that I would make is that the appeal process will be complicated, expensive and long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
