Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "LegalEagle" channel.

  1. 18:00 - The flaw in the Supreme Court's reasoning there is that punitive damages aren't determined by the amount of money the defendant needs to give the plaintiff to compensate them for the harm suffered; they're determined by the amount of money you need to fine the defendant to deter them from doing it again. Requiring punitive damages to be proportionate to compensatory damages would defeat the whole purpose of punitive damages, which is (as the name suggests) to punish the offender, rather than to compensate the victim.
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  2. TBH Desatan is exactly the kind of person who'd kill his own descendants just to seize control of Disneyworld sooner.
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  3. One major difference between this and the Streisand case: the picture of Streisand's house wasn't labelled or distinguished in any way that would identify it as her house to a casual observer. The IG post of Jacksfilms's house was specifically called out as his and his family's residence.
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  4. I hope Judge Ho asks all the hard questions. I also hope he doesn't end up getting thrown out a window for it.
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  5. It's a shame juries aren't allowed to award "all the defendant's money" as punitive damages...
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  6.  @anonymoushuman8443  Objection: irrelevant
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  7.  @lgbtthefeministgamer4039  They voted for him. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  8. 16:23 - Apparently, the city and the police department conveniently ignored the fact that the Takings Clause itself draws no such distinction and names no exceptions to the requirement that property owners be compensated when their property is taken.
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  9. 9:10 - After the events of the past year or so, I'd hesitate to call anything "settled law that won't be overturned anytime soon".
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  10. I wonder... what's stopping the rest of the U.S. judicial system from simply ignoring this ruling? The Supreme Court has no power to compel adherence to its rulings; the only reason they're generally obeyed is that the Supreme Court is respected as a (theoretically-)impartial arbiter of the law. If the Supreme Court shatters that respect by making a ruling with no factual basis whatsoever, what stops the lower courts from acting as if the Supreme Court is incapacitated and simply defying said nonsensical ruling?
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  11. Why's the video disappeared?
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  12. Delete section 3 and you're good. Edit: Also, replace "blood or marriage" with "blood, adoption, or marriage" in section 5.
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  13. Well, if a vacancy just coincidentally were to happen to open up... (wink wink, nudge nudge)
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  14. Well, if she just so happened to have an "unfortunate" "accident" sometime in the near future... 😉
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  15. Arrange for six specific judges to have "unfortunate" "accidents"?
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  16. OBJECTION: you don't consider having an armed mob storm the Capitol to be "levying war against the United States"?
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  17. Aaaaand the Alabama Supreme Court is officially off its meds.
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  18. Why do the courts even give deference to assessments and determinations by government entities in the first place? If you're in court and the prosecutor asks why you killed your neighbor, you can't just say "I determined that it was necessary to kill them", you have to justify your decisions and actions to the court. There's no reason why government entities shouldn't have to justify their own decisions and determinations in open court. Oh, and we also need a law to prevent the government from submitting classified information as evidence in court, and to automatically declassify any classified information required as evidence by a party opposing the government in court.
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  19. Ah, politics...
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  20. 20:10 - PSA for fellow trans USians, stock up on your HRT NOW, while you still have the chance. There's no way he's gonna stop at "just" banning federal funding for gender-affirming care rather than going for a complete ban on any and all such treatment.
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  21. You don't say...
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  22. Agreed wholeheartedly. Though in my particular case there's an even more compelling reason for voting blue; Trump and his party've explicitly pledged to wipe out a segment of the population to which I belong.
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  23. 10:06 - Objection: They're a bunch of supervillains. Somehow I doubt that they care about anything more than the facade of a constitutionally-permissible trial.
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  24. 17:54 - Those aren't actually caltrops in that photo. Those are what's known as "Czech [or Ukrainian in this case, I guess] hedgehogs", and they're built to physically block or hang up vehicles (especially tanks), rather than puncture tyres.
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  25. 12:35 - "Alito wrote that overturning the precedent would not hurt women because there's no evidence that women rely on the right to abortion in living their lives." Has Alito ever met any women?
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  26.  @LegionofSH  Most of Europe had birthright citizenship until the 19th/20th centuries; its present lack of same is a historical aberration.
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  27. And nothing of value was lost.
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  28.  @chrisbeer5685  Better yet, just make it so that current and former presidents aren't eligible for federal pardons.
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  29. 0:36 - Objection: going from no lamps to one is ∞% more lamps, not 100% more lamps.
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  30. 15:33 - Translation: Alex Jones is a conspiracy theorist and certified A-hole who's butthurt about getting called out on his bovine fecal matter.
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  31. 6:58 - "We have a suspect who's armed and possibly under the influence of goodness knows what. Let's escalate the situation further!"
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  32. 14:10 - Granted, the other person might well've deserved it, but it's technically still illegal to try to murder someone.
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  33. In a sensible country, all laws would be self-executing. The United States is not a sensible country.
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  34. A.k.a. all right-wing influencers.
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  35. 4:52 - Venezuela isn't even Communist. Do some research, Ms. Powell, assuming you know the meaning of that word.
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  36. 18:27 - It should be noted that, aside from turning you a ghastly bluish-gray, silver is (relatively) harmless as far as heavy metals go.
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  37.  @Patrick-kw3on  No it doesn't. One of the core tenets of a republican (small-r) government is that no one is above the law, even those forming the government.
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  38.  @Lobsterwithinternet  Except that even with immunity, the defendant needs to go to court to get the case thrown out anyway, so giving people immunity doesn't actually save that time, energy, and money. It just means that the grounds for throwing out the case're different, and that people with legitimate grievances get screwed over.
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  39. 9:50 - Objection: the U.S. federal government has jurisdiction over intellectual-property law, including, theoretically, the ability to extinguish intellectual-property rights.
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  40. 6:42 - Not that I think Jurassic Park was a good idea, especially not as implemented, but Malcolm's actually barking up the wrong tree there.
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  41. Am transgender, can confirm that 6:28 was a major dick move by that Dutch guy.
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  42. 11:36 - Dammit, Ulbricht, use grammar properly! People are hanged, not hung! 🤦‍♀
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  43. Someone please just fine him "all his money" already!
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  44. 2:16 - Yeesh, they couldn't've simply sold the farmhouse to someone else?
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  45. 13:37 - And no, you can't use this section to sue your neighbor for their router interfering with your wifi signal, because wifi uses the ISM (Industrial/Scientific/Medical) bands, which are unlicensed and open for any use, thus failing the "licensed or authorized by or under this chapter" test.
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  46. 1:04 - <pedantry>Technically, it was a lyre, not a fiddle (the fiddle hadn't been invented yet).</pedantry>
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  47. 9:38 - OBJECTION! I'll give you endangering lives, but it's conceivable Nedry's contract was drafted poorly enough to not actually restrict what he's allowed to do with the computer system that he built and programmed.
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  48. 12:12 - "Cuomo claims that he followed the Trump administration's guidelines" Since when has that ever turned out well?
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  49. 15:53 - Objection: "best seller" and "America's favorite" can both be objectively measured by comparing sales data for the different brands on the market.
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  50. 16:58 - "He wrote that 'the nine unelected members of this court do not possess the constitutional authority to override the democratic process...'" With all due respect, Justice Kavanaugh, you are a moron.
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