jerrymahoney

... or, I should have said, Washington DC.

Well even though Miami-Dade County went for Biden in 2020, jury pool there would certainly be less hostile to Trump than New York City and environs.

Opinion What to look for if Trump is indicted by the DOJ We believe that the rule of law requires that Trump be charged, based on the wealth of publicly available facts and the history of the Justice Department charging people who did far less. Just last week, a former Army lieutenant colonel was sentenced to three years in prison for illegal retention of classified documents. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/07/justice-department-trump-indictment-possible-details/ no paywall https://archive.is/xQbxS

Trump seeks to stop second E. Jean Carroll lawsuit Lawyers for Donald Trump are attempting to block a long-stalled defamation suit by writer E. Jean Carroll by using her successful $5 million verdict in a different case she won against the former president. The “operative question in this case is, and has always been, whether a rape occurred in the Bergdorf Goodman dressing room," the filing said, and the jury "found that one did not.” "Faced with the Carroll II jury's rejection of her rape accusation, Ms. Carroll now sees to remove nearly every reference * of the word 'rape' in her complaint and abandon the narrative she has conveyed to the public for years," Habba said. (* approximately 71 changes 'rape' to 'sexual abuse') https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-seeks-stop-second-e-jean-carroll-lawsuit-rcna87921 ******************* NB The following is verbatim from the actual MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO AMEND (their caps) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.164.0.pdf I. PLAINTIFF’S AMENDED ALLEGATIONS UNDULY PREJUDICE DEFENDANT It is well established that “prejudice to the opposing party resulting from a proposed amendment [is] among the most important reasons to deny leave to amend.” With respect to the instant application, Plaintiff’s proposed amendment is unduly prejudicial because it seeks to fundamentally alter the nature of this action, at the eleventh hour, in response to a jury verdict that directly undercuts the viability of her claim. As such, the proposed amendment is inherently prejudicial to Defendant. II. PLAINTIFF’S MOTION SHOULD BE DENIED BECAUSE OF PLAINTIFF’S UNDUE DELAY Courts in the Second Circuit have consistently held that where a party seeks to amend after an inordinate delay, “[t]he burden is on the party who wishes to amend to provide a satisfactory explanation for the delay.” III. PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO AMEND SHOULD BE DENIED DUE TO FUTILITY. Plaintiff’s Motion should be rejected for another standalone reason: the remarks made by the Defendant during the Town Hall meeting are safeguarded by the fair reporting privilege, which consequently prevents them from being used as a foundation to enhance the punitive damages sought by Plaintiff in this case, and the amendment is therefore futile. Of the amendments proposed by Plaintiff, the most significant change to her Complaint is the sudden, ex post facto revision of what she claims occurred in the Bergdorf Goodman dressing 7 room. Indeed, in her Amended Complaint, Plaintiff seeks to abandon her accusation that Defendant raped her—which she has claimed since 2019 and continues to maintain publicly to this day—in an attempt to re-characterize the alleged incident as a “sexual assault.” Her reason for doing so is clear—she is attempting to comport her Complaint with the jury's verdict from Carroll II to capitalize on the favorable aspect of the ruling while minimizing the impact of the adverse portion. (my italics) Consequently, the Plaintiff has substituted approximately 71 mentions of the previous assault as a rape with various iterations of "sexual assault" and "sexual abuse." The Amended Complaint also sets forth a number of other substantive changes, including, but not limited to, the following: Instead of stating that it was strange for the lingerie department of Bergdorf Goodman to be empty, the Complaint now states that it was not uncommon for this to occur; Id at ¶ 34.

Actually the other 2 reasonably current topics relate to Trumps 2022 jury trial and the resulting appeal. This is the Carroll 2020 case filed when Trump was still president. But I'll be more careful next time, Mr. Interlocutor

Nothing. One guy said on this topic that all these Trump follies should be FUN and I replied that the Carroll cases will be fun long before any of the 1 criminal indictment (case scheduled in 2024) and the other 2 possible cases where no indictments have yet to be issued.

To answer the OP query: If I'm still around when my Thai wife reaches 43, I'll let you know.

As linked above. This is Judge Kaplan's 24MAY2023 Court order: ORDER: Unless otherwise ordered, any opposition to plaintiff's (Carroll's) motion to amend, and any reply in support thereof, under the Rules of this Court, is due on or before June 5, 2023 and June 12, 2023, respectively. In other words, starts TODAY US EDT time.

You said: Don’t disappear, there’s a whole lot of fun yet to be had. Sure it's not the Mar-a-lago document case but it's a civil case where the fun is going to start long before the other criminal cases including the document case where there have not yet been charges.

Well not medicine but this is the best (funniest) example I have found of what can go wrong: A lawyer used ChatGPT and now has to answer for its ‘bogus’ citations Lawyers suing the Colombian airline Avianca submitted a brief full of previous cases that were just made up by ChatGPT, The New York Times reported today. After opposing counsel pointed out the nonexistent cases, US District Judge Kevin Castel confirmed, “Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations,” and set up a hearing as he considers sanctions for the plaintiff’s lawyers. https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/27/23739913/chatgpt-ai-lawsuit-avianca-airlines-chatbot-research

Actually big doings start next week as motions become due in Court for Carroll to amend her 2020 Defamation complaint. * NB This is a separate trial from the recently concluded battery-$5miilion jury trial. The reason the 2020 case has moved so slowly is that Trump was sued by Carroll while he was the current US President. * Trump fights to keep the word 'rape' in E. Jean Carroll's remaining defamation case https://news.yahoo.com/trump-fights-keep-word-rape-002817597.html

Amorn has them.

https://thesiamsociety.org/ The Siam Society Under Royal Patronage was established in 1904 with a mission to promote knowledge of the culture, history, arts and natural sciences of Thailand as well as those of neighbouring countries.

You lose your bet. But I like the familiarity of MAKRO when it opens at 6 AM. I just don't find it expeditious to be in a country like Thailand and think that Thailand should do something different than what they are doing.

Westfield in Sydney or Stratford. Whatsamatter -- can't make up your mind? But after 20 years living here I just take it that any way they choose to run their country is OK by me.

past tense of wake.

A Central Nong Khai would not be copying the West. It would be copying Central Khon Kaen and Central UdonThani

Well if your point is that now farangs are the NIMBY * folks in Isaan, that might make sense. * Not in my back yard

My opinion has nothing to do with it. The Central site location folks will have an area growth projection and decide whether the area can support a mall even if it takes 5 or 10 years to break even.

So the locals won't have to drive or take the train to UdonThani?

Nothing in the US Constitution would prevent him from running his Presidency from a convalescent home -- although the White House could certainly be turned into one if needs be.

Joe Biden first was an official candidate for US President in 1988. As now the incumbent first term President, unless he voluntarily decides not to stand for a second term, there are few if any options for the Democrats to run someone else in 2024. And it seems Joe, after being in the Presidential politics game for almost 40 years, doesn't seem like he is going to walk away from it all now. 1988 Campaign logo:

Old film camera negatives converted to CD-ROM about 15 years ago.

My apologies. I didn't realize you had a point.