Newyorkinsq

    >Hey sorry I sounded so crazy there, just trying to help.

David
No hard feelings then; but a heads up - including the words "Stop bugging
everyone .... I suggest you drop it right now." in an attempt at helping
someone is unlikely to leave them feeling particularly grateful.

Newyorkinsq

I said
    >> Can I take it, from the somewhat oblique nature of your
    >> response...

You wrote
    >I did not make an "oblique answer." I simply didn't answer the
    >question at all.

Since you seem to delight in pettiness I'll indulge your foible by pointing out
that I never uttered the words you quoted and therefore impliedly assign to me
(all in the cause of a contradiction of someone simply asking for help with a
serious problem, I might add). You certainly made a "response", as I said, in
that your post followed mine which initiated the thread, and quoted it in its
entirety.

Further my awareness that you did not answer the question at all was amply
illustrated in the rest of my post ("no lawyer would actually answer it without
payment?") - which you will note asked if the question could be reframed in a
way that you *would* answer it.

When next you choose to indulge your fixation on always being right, I gently
encourage that you ought to take a little more care to first find someone who
is wrong, and then address the point of that wrongness. Instead it seems you
just invent words for other people and then gleefully contradict them - picking
holes in people's posts on Usenet is like shooting fish in a barrel. But you
seem the kind of person who enjoys such sport and yet lacks the ability.

From the tone of your responses I can at least infer with some certainty that
if you knew much of anything specific in answer to my question - e.g. of a case
involving a prosecution on the lines I mentioned - you would not have missed
this opportunity of parading such knowledge. In that highly limited sense your
assistance has been of help.

    

Folinskyinla

Don't remember Murphy at all. I DO remember Peeveyhouse v Peabody Coal on the measure of damages for breach of contract. My contracts professor had retired from University of Cincinatti Law and was outraged at that case -- and he briefed it himself in very dramatic fashion. In fact, a classmate of mine went back the next year and taped the lecture.

In talking to people at alumni functions, it makes me sad that "The 65 Club" of law professors is really no more -- I caught the tail end of something fantastic.