Judge Alito will be so pleased

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Let's assume Bruce's plumber-friend mentioned above is a licensed plumber and the system he installed has a problem.
The owner of the building doesn't know whether it's the fault of the plumber or of the architect or both,
so he sues both and asks the court to decide proportional guilt.

Actually, relatives of fire victims sued the plumbing contractor, but not the building owner, architect, City, Underwriters, bank, or insurance company. A judge with half a brain would have said this is not right, but it dragged through the courts for years, with the plaintiffs finally winning millions. Not because the contractor did anything wrong, because he had the money.

[Lamplighter]

At least one federal judge understands that rendition and torture are not American values...

LosAngeles Times
U.S. civilian court acquits ex-Guantanamo detainee of all major terrorism charges

The verdict involving a suspect in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa
may complicate efforts to try Sept. 11 defendants in nonmilitary U.S. courts.
But Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani may still face life in prison without parole for his conviction on a lesser count.

The verdict could presage trouble for President Obama's plans to close the U.S. military prison in Cuba
and bring its remaining detainees to the United States for trial.
Officials who want military commissions to try the men argue that terrorism suspects
would get too many rights and protections in civilian court.

In Ghailani's monthlong trial, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan refused to allow a key government witness
to testify after finding that the information had been produced by torture at an undisclosed CIA foreign detention site.