Re: Limbaugh passed away
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 10:06 pm
I remember listening to Limpballs shows when he discussed the tobacco cases. Recall that juries made multi million awards to claimants who suffered illness from tobacco use, esp at the time when the industry was not regulated. Limpballs argued that regulation was not necessary and that the awards were excessive as people should be free to indulge in whatever activity they wanted to do without government interference. Many Republican appellate courts overturned those awards even though the Constitution gives such a prerogative to juries as per Amendment 7:
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law
wiki analysis: The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. This amendment codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases and inhibits courts from overturning a jury's findings of fact.
Somehow these Republican appellate judges (in their wicked little minds) were miraculously able to ascertain the extent of injuries even though they were not in a court examining the demeanor of aggrieved claimants. Rush applauded all this. I wonder how he feels about it all now that he has a bird's eye view from his perch in Hell.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law
wiki analysis: The Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. This amendment codifies the right to a jury trial in certain civil cases and inhibits courts from overturning a jury's findings of fact.
Somehow these Republican appellate judges (in their wicked little minds) were miraculously able to ascertain the extent of injuries even though they were not in a court examining the demeanor of aggrieved claimants. Rush applauded all this. I wonder how he feels about it all now that he has a bird's eye view from his perch in Hell.