Today's Trial: It Was A Dog-Bites-Dog Kind of Case

Just finished a nice half-day trial.

Yes, it actually was about an idiotic Defendant letting their pit bull roam free and attacked my client's dog, causing a few thousand in vet bills.

Not only idiotic as their city bans pit bulls and they had one anyways, nor just because you're required to control your dog, but idiotic as they refused to pay anything for the medical bills and demanded to go to trial. Most people would step up and pay for the damage their animal did, these folks decided to give it the ostrich treatment. They actually were busy claiming their dog hadn't bit my client's dog and had only gotten out that one time and nothing happened.

Witnesses who were at the scene begged to differ. Witnesses who noted the dog had escaped on multiple times also differed with their story of this being a one-off.

Their attorney did his best, but had to run with an inconsistent story - that the dog didn't bite my client's dog, and if it did then the damages weren't all that bad. This led to some strange questioning from him, including playing math and mind games with the vet bills, but in the end it wasn't nearly enough and I got a judgment in favor of my client.

It was kinda crazy to be going to trial on this as most reasonable people would have settled or offered to pay or even arrange a payment plan or something to get this resolved. Not these bozos.

Trial record remains undefeated.

Detroit Has Gone To The Dogs (And Cats)

The Detroit News: 7,500 stray dogs, 18,000 cats roam Detroit streets, MSU researcher says

Understand that the study is based on a survey the researcher sent to animal shelters in Detroit.

Other studies suggest there may be as many as 50,000 stray dogs roaming Detroit.

No one really knows the actual amount.

December 21 And Yes, We're All Still Here

Crazy end of year rush at work. I've been crazy busy trying to get everyone's rushes and emergencies done so blogging has been significantly curtailed.

So much for the Mayan prophecy as an excuse for slowing things down at all. Why the hurry? The world's ending and your case is therfore coming to a resolution.... That excuse doesn't work. btw.

In other words, no end of the world in sight - after all with 4 more years of Obama it's gonna be bad enough, Mayans or no Mayans.

Of course, we could be wrong and the hysterical and credulous could be right.....so might as well go out with a couple songs:

But it's really, really, really, not likely to happen anytime soon, hysterical and credulous people notwithstanding. Let's stick to worrying about stuff that matters and that we can do something useful about.