Re: Practice the Black Arts in class, get fired.

On Fri, 16 May 2008 00:05:56 -0700, Daniel R. Reitman
<dreitman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:25:12 -0400, Howard S Shubs <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>wrote:
>
>>But it has, and the woman involved was old enough to know it.  I have 
>>very little sympathy for her.  There's no fool like an old fool.  All 
>>that life experience and she STILL put hot coffee where she did.  What 
>>an idiot.
>
>For which she was found 25 percent at fault, and her damages were
>reduced accordingly.  But no one ever points that out when complaining
>about the case.
>
I didn't know the exact number, but i knew there had been a reduction.

There's an im****tant philosophical difference between "the verdict was
*wrong*" and "the awarded damages were way out of line."