<p>Well, we can’t <em>all</em> be talking about Ron Paul or the differing merits of operations on infants now, can we? Besides, today brought 180.3 million more reasons to look at a case that has clear and continuing importance with respect to at least one college, ja?</p>
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Can you hold Hollywood off until the end of the term? S is in one of your classes!</p>
<p>I’ll have my people talk to his people. </p>
<p>Wait - I am my people. And you are his people…</p>
<p>Meantime - The Responses were filed today for several of the people and entities sued by Mr. Evans, Mr. Finnerty, and Mr. Seligmann. Shockingly,
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<p>The $180(.3)M filing did keep Nifong from having to file a response so, no word on his blame targets.</p>
<p>:D OK, so we’ll be talking!
(Just so long a S doesn’t find out. He would be mortified!)</p>
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<p>What a shock!! haha</p>
<p>Maybe a lawyer on here can explain something to me. The lawyers for Seligman and the rest say they’re gonna fight his bankruptcy filing. My question is-- why didn’t Nifong simply put everything he owned (including his house and his honda-- which are exempt from the bankruptcy filing) in his wife’s name and be done with it? The wife is not named in the suit, so wouldn’t that have been easier? They could never take his assets if everything was in her name, right? And explain bankruptcy to me. I thought bankruptcy only lasted 7 years or something. Is that not correct anymore? I’m confused. ??</p>
<p>Not a bankruptcy lawyer here, but generally you can’t just put stuff in someone else’s name after you’ve incurred a debt just to avoid paying. The debt attaches to the asset unless it was sold for fair value.</p>
<p>kluge: Okay, so he just waited too long? Seems to me a competent lawyer would have told him early on that he should automatically put everything in her name, in anticipation of a civil suit. It seems to me he could have done that before they actually brought the suit. Even if Nifong didn’t see that coming, his lawyer should have.</p>
<p>Don’t know the law in this situation, but in the case of assets counted when someone is entering a nursing home, those assets must be moved several years prior to the nursing home entry. Anyway, Nigong’s hubris is extraordinary; he would not have listened to a lawyer or finance guy.</p>
<p>My guess is that Nifong, again, has allowed his arrogance to make his situation worse. I still remember his quote about how the defense attorneys filed the motion to have him removed because they were afraid of him and that, " I wouldn’t really want to try a case against me either." Turns out it was really because no one wants to try a case against a wholly unscrupulous DA who seems to have the support - or at least the indifference - of the city, county, state, and country in which he works…</p>
<p>This filing looks as if someone bought a $19.95 Bankruptcy By Numbers kit at Office Depot.</p>
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<p>Hey - you’re not planning to give away all of our professional secrets, are you?</p>
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<p>I can only hope that these plaintiffs do not settle the case before trial. I would love to read the depositions of the Duke President and his fellow backstabbers.</p>
<p>[Duke</a> Lax Players Sue School, City](<a href=“http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UUR6BG0&show_article=1]Duke”>http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UUR6BG0&show_article=1)</p>
<p>Razor - my guess is this trial is much more about getting information than anything else. </p>
<p>As an aside - I’ve gotten to know some of the players and parents on that list. Those I’ve met are not vindictive nor are they greedy, but they are hurt and they do want the truth. They also want Duke to be a better place, so as much as all this is going to hurt in the short term, much good should come of it in the long term. I only pray that the integrity of the educational environment for those players still here is actively maintained by those we’ve charged with its care… At the very least, perhaps that lesson has been learned.</p>
<p>Meantime - Mr. Nifong wasn’t named, so I guess he won’t be refiling his bankruptcy with a claim of $1.23 billion in liabilities…</p>
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<p>Amen.</p>
<p>[Lacrosse</a> accuser faces charges - Durham County - NewsObserver.com](<a href=“http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/02/19/346659/lacrosse-accuser-faces-charges.html?storylink=misearch]Lacrosse”>http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/02/19/346659/lacrosse-accuser-faces-charges.html?storylink=misearch)</p>
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<p>Have the Duke faculty weighed in on this?</p>
<p>“Have the Duke faculty weighed in on this?”</p>
<p>Too funny.</p>
<p>Yeah, I can’t wait for the Duke faculty to issue their group statement condemning her.</p>
<p>Duke settles lax dispute with Pressler:</p>
<p>From the Duke Chronicle:</p>
<p>[Duke</a> settles lax dispute with Pressler | The Chronicle](<a href=“- The Chronicle”>Duke settles lax dispute with Pressler - The Chronicle)</p>