Loved my Amiga, fairbro, but finally tossed it out a few years ago. Now I see it's a collectors item. Oh well...

Thank you so very much for that information.
I'm going to buy that book.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c...

A surprising # of tinnitus problems are thyroid imbalances.

During the Seventies me dino a newspaper reporter was excused from the jury for a criminal case when I had the by(me)line on the story I got straight from the
county sheriff.
Just over a decade ago I with a phone call said I should not be on any jury for having developed a case of tinnitus. My ears are ringing as I type.
Now I suddenly wonder how many retired people with a hearing problem like me ever accepted jury duty to either feel important or just to have something to do.

They have multiplied like viagra-ed rabbits. I get emails from http://topclassactions.com. Average plaintiff payout is about $10 while the attorneys rake in $millions. Your claim has so many qualifying conditions, it limps through with as much validity as trying to store water in a colander.

Remember when attorneys were not allowed to advertise? Now when I near the state capitol, I see giant billboards with grinning greedmeisters: "In a wreck? Get a Check!"

It's a feeding trough for the gluttonous. They gather around the politicians. 1 in 10 people in DC is an attorney.

Good.

I only got to the jury duty process once. When It came my turn I thought I might as well be honest. I said i had written a software game (Courtroomgame Dot com) and it would be very interesting seeing how real attorneys handle Rules of Evidence in a real courtroom. They moved on without comment.

I need to update this game from 1993 (on the Amiga platform) probably lot of potential sales out there in this litigious society. LOL! I did make a PC version but it's DOS-based, pixelated and undergoes unexplained (I don't have the code, just the .exe file) runtime glitches. Plus the jury is non-woke (mostly white).

Only 50%? You got me smiling here as a decade or so ago a group of about 1000 employees filed a class action suit against a local company and the resulting settlement was $10 million. The lawyers claimed $9 million leaving $1 million to be divided up for everyone else (it was a union thingy so I'm sure the union management got most of the $1 million). I wish I could remember more details, but the gist of the newspaper article to me was the 9 to 1 divvy-up.

I know the judgement was roughly that amount.
No idea what his contract with his attorney was.

Attorneys are as productive as termites. They claim a pile of money from one person, take 50% for themselves, and transfer the other half to another person. They are even more socially destructive than (Leftist) politicians.

Did he get the $300,000?

I have been screwed over by real estate attorneys more than once.

That was precisely my point in another response on this thread. People with relevant experience are not permitted on juries.

Unfortunately that 'trial' wanted no one with any valuation experience on the jury, just people who disliked all things 'Trump.'

Trump needed you in the evaluation of Mar-A-Lago!

I was "excused" from all four cases (in three calls to jury dury) because I knew too much. What has to change about the jury system is the ability for lawyers to pick and choose jury members.

I got called to jury twice. Once I was working in China and got excused. The second was a firearms ownership case and after I said I was a card carrying member of the NRA and believed in every Americans right to keep and bear arms, I was ushered to the door and that was the end of that.

Thanks for sharing that, jb.
I have only had one experience as a juror.
Out of about 100 prospective jurors interviewed by the lawyers, I was chosen in a trial to determine the amount
of damages owed to a land owner by the local utility who had used eminent domain to seize an acre of land.
A previous trial had already determined that the utility had not fairly compensated the land owner.
I think I was chosen because I had worked for some years in land development, and I was the only one on
the jury with any such experience.
The utility had offered about $4,000 for the acre of land (for a sub-station, iirc) which fronted on a 4-lane road
about 2 miles from the center of a small city. City growth was pushing toward the land parcel. The utility used a
"comparable" value equivalent to an acre in flood plain with no road access. The fair value was determined
in the trial to be about 75 times that offered amount using testimony from several real estate brokers and
actual similar land sales nearby.

The author is definitely right about the jury system being involuntary servitude. Every jury (three total) that I have been called to has been a civil medical malpractice case or one in which an electrical contractor's non-English-speaking employee sued the customer for shocking himself while working on faulty wiring. Well, duh, the faulty wiring was why the contractor was called out (after a lightning strike has caused damage).

We have too many lawsuits in this country. Non-patent lawyers are like locusts feeding on productive citizens like us.

Casey may be on to something here, but I wonder what his privatized "justice system" will be like after it becomes as bought and corrupt as the government version.