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Originally Posted by BreakfastBurrito
Acquittals R Us could not exist because there would be no market for a blantantly biased private court.
I appreciated your attempt to address the question, but opening your post with the above sentence did put a damper on it for me.
No market for the services of Acquittals R Us? How about every defendant in a criminal or tort case? Think maybe that's enough of a customer base on which to run a business?
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Originally Posted by Zurvan
I can't imagine any situation where insurance companies don't make agreements with each other regarding which courts they'll use when they are involved in a case with each other.
Which of course creates an exploitable market niche for services to those who require a court free to acquit their own clients without constraining preexisting agreements.
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He does not need to consent. The non aggression principle clearly states that you cannot initiate force against another. If you steal from me you have initiated force against me. I am free to defend myself, which includes taking you to court to recover damages incurred by your initiation of force against me.
The problem you're having is that, in the eyes of the law, no one has stolen anything from you, or therefore owes you anything including voluntary participation in the court proceedings of YOUR choice, BEFORE a due process finding of liability has occurred.
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Originally Posted by Rubeskies
Yes, that was implied. BUT, surely you can see how making the guilty criminals pay for their legal costs hugely helps defray the costs of catching criminals.
Overlooking for now the practical collectability of such judgements from the typical defendant, and more especially organized crime, as a reliable revenue stream on which to run a business, I don't dispute this in principle.
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This is the main reason why Bob will need to have his own security firm. Without one, he's kind of at the mercy of his criminal catchers.
at the mercy of his criminal catchers /= due process of law. More like frontier justice.
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But IF Bob has a security firm, the two security firms will negotiate for a mutually acceptable trial and venue.
Unless he hires an ad hoc no-negotiations-with-terrorists firm for just such emergencies whose venue of choice is exclusively Acquittals R Us.
Last edited by Strawn; 04-30-2009 at 10:45 PM.