Sanity Prevails
Well lookie here (no link for anti police haters at WTTW):
A Cook County jury determined Chicago police officers were not liable for the death of a 55-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a driver being chased by officers, records show.
The Chicago City Council refused in February to pay $8.25 million to resolve the lawsuit filed by the family of Dominga Flores Gomez, who died in the crash that ended the chase launched by two Chicago Police Department officers just before 9 p.m. on Sept. 28, 2022.
After a three-week trial, the jury determined that the fatal injuries suffered by Flores Gomez, who was survived by five children and eight grandchildren, were the fault of the driver who refused to stop for police, records show.
The verdict represents a major victory for members of the Chicago City Council who contend the city’s lawyers are too eager to settle cases before trial, which they say encourages those guilty of criminal wrongdoing to sue the city in the hopes of an easy payday.
Back when J-Fledgar was supernintendo, he somehow got Corp Counsel to start fighting a bunch of these cases....and wonder of wonders, Corp Counsel won a bunch of them, saving taxpayers millions and dozens of Officers' reputations.
Of course, the plaintiff attorneys couldn't have that. How were they going to max out their political contributions to Rahm and the Machine if they couldn't use taxpayer dollars? They weren't about to dip into their own pockets. So they threatened to withhold the money.
Rahm told Corp Counsel to stop fighting these cases, settle them quietly and generously, and political contributions resumed, abetted by media tools who pushed the "innocence project" bullshit and claimed taxpayers were being saved money by not risking bigger jury verdicts.
The trouble was (and always has been) two-fold:
- that if a jury got the correct information presented professionally and competently, they often found that Police followed the Law as written and it was the criminal that was to blame, and
- Corp Counsel was mostly connected, poorly accredited, pre-DEI hires who were there to fulfill quotas and work a five-hour day while waiting to see if their phone call could land them a judgeship or private law practice gig.
Or, like Shortshanks, a mayoral spot.
For the most part, juries are easily led sheep. But that works both ways if you have a decent Corp Counsel leading the way - a rarity in the best of times, and almost unheard of nowadays.
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posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
36 Comments:
Wow guess the alderman mayor and democrats who back door rob taxpayers via campaign donations and Manila envelopes won’t be getting da cash! Surprisingly they didn’t get to give more of our money away in order to share in the award,
Or farm these cases out to incompetent law firms, who have never won a case, or ever been in a trial.
Welcome to ejection er election season. Hopefully, we'll see more of this behavior. But, don't anyone hold your breath.
I wonder if the city's insurance premiums are too high? Where does the money come from, a city insurance plan or the actual budget?
Plus, crimesha helped the ghetto lottery bigly.
Somehow we’re at a time where it’s the fault of the police for doing their job and the criminal bears no responsibility.
Nice start now keep it up.
Corp counsel is anything but DEI. The unfortunate times I have been there, it’s been suburban whites or whites originally from out of state that came from money. Liberal and scared to fight their own shadow. I even told them that they were scared and should take my case to trial instead of paying the shit bird out. It’s not DEI incompetency, it’s that they’re scared to put in the work and FIGHT!
fight every case , start filing law suits against people that make false accusations against our police officers . File law suits against the incompetent,COPA investigators.
Totally true, I was a supervisor in a meeting when JFled said "Why don't we fight these cases. There are cases you look at and say, Hmmm, maybe we should settle, but most of these are winnable." The City started fighting the cases and won 98% of them. Rahm came in and your right, his lawyer buddies were complaining they weren't making any money.
Good. Fight and win.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
If "Grandma just got run over by a reindeer" had happened in Chicago it would have resulted in a twenty million dollars payday for the lawyers. Santa would be fucked. The two industries that thrive in Cook County are the lawsuit industry and weed industry.
Campaign donations is legalized bribery, campaign donations should be banned especially law firms that sue the city for a living. They throw Police Officers under the bus to ensure campaign/bribery donations continue to flow into their re-election accounts.
Good job Tobias. Now demand they put you back on the street
The hack politicians just want to save those dollars to spend on their fraudulent personal slush funds
I had a couple of lawsuits filed against me, not bad ones, and both were settled for under $10K. In each case I never was contacted by a Corporation Counsel or asked anything about the case. Just were settled.
Let the ghetto lottery ticket holders go after the fleeing criminal for their payout... Few of those attempts to get blood out of a turnip and this "milking the Taxpayers" bullshit comes to a swift end...
WTTW's Heather Cherone took a beating on this story on their X (TWITTER) account. The legacy media where THEY controlled the narative by stifling letters to the editor pointing out their biased reporting is dead. Now they can be corrected and their bias pointed out in real time. FOP Lodge 7 should have a staffer devoted to that full time
OK, Gentleman, Start your engines! And, they’re off. Oh boy I can’t wait to get back to work. I’m finna to put my black leather half-fingers gloves on and get after them traffic related scofflaws. The chase is on.
Hey wait look over here more cameras to ticket more people wow we’re worried about flat cameras. Look at what brand is up to now along with the 50 idiots more tax money is gonna be spent. How much more is gonna take from the tax payers?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-smart-street-cameras-brandon-johnson-veto
Some comes from the general fund, but the majority comes from Insurance
Time for some wood shampoos! woo hoo!
Hey rahm? EAT SHIT!
that happens all the time we only hear about the big payouts however, the CC settles almost every case it receives. You will be surprised on how many cases they settle for under $100,000.00. I had a relative working there as an attorney, when she told me how many cases they settle I almost fell over.
Wrong. i was sued for $24 million on a wrongful conviction case. The city farmed my case over to Pugh, Jones, Johnson, & Quandt. After a 8 day trail, we won the case, Just prior to the case went to the jury, James Montgomery,, the suing attorney, sent a note to Walter Jones who was handling the case. He asked Jones if he would settle for $3 million. Jones told him, "Hell No, let it go to the jury". The trail did go to the jury and we won. This firm was a minority law firm with 3 out of the 4 principles African American. Unfortunityly, Walter Jones died several years ago. However, the firm is still practicing and the C.C. still gives this firm cases. There are some very competent firms defending the city but we don't always hear about the cases they win.
Hold my beer son, I had one in the millions and the city fought it back in the 80's anyway cat food isn't that bad with crackers and hot sauce.
Maybe JCat has a cousin who could do that job.
It's all about preserving their win/loss ratios. If you try a case and lose, not good. But if you negotiate out, you can brag, get jobs, etc., because you've never lost a case. They're terrified of losing and messing up their numbers.
Back in the eighties the general aviation industry was what's for dinner. Ludicrous settlements for at fault small plane crashes. Drunk pilot banned from small airport. Told to leave by car. They blocked the runway with trucks. Ole cletus tried to take off and t boned a truck and got dead or unalived as the cool kids say. Who's at fault you say ? Otis the town drunk or the airport owner who blocked the runway ? Nope. Piper aircraft company who built the plane 50 years earlier to the tune I'd I recall 15 million. Slick lawyers got juries of grandma's and showed them pictures of burned and battered bodies and convinced these dumb old ladies that 1500 lb aluminum flying machines should be able to withstand a crash and should be made outta concrete or lead or kryptonite and these poor souls died from bloody capitalism. Anyway, the airplane manufacturers got together and said fuck this,damn lawyers gonna bankrupt us anyway, let's go down fighting. They fought every suit despite merits. They quit building small planes for 10-15 years while they lobbied for tort reform and got it. Every lawyer I ever met was dick lazy. Agreed motions and 500.00 phone calls. I'm retired and slip and fall commercials pay for day time tv. Make them go to trial and spend money and work for it and nuisance suits go away. This is real money that belongs to other people they so casually give away. There's a message there for the useless cretins that run this depressing burg, but I doubt they care. Ps. Private planes may not be important to most people of course but it's the farm team for the military and airlines and air freight so it's important they don't get sued out of existence by people like Saul the lawyer. We used to make the world's airplanes we only have Boeing left and the democrats would love to see them destroyed.
As much as settling sucks. You know what sucks more? Punitive damages against the officers. So ask them if they would have rather settled or taken it to trial. Some cases are dogs and the officers are liable. Some are totally winnable but a typical police hating jury was picked and now the officers are screwed
No, Charlie, Incompetent law firms. If you saw ours, you would know. This wasn't from 40 years ago. Different time..Bet they didn't go up against Jon Loevy. I have.
Ready to gamble $20k, $50K, $100K of YOUR money on the outcome. Remember punitives come out of YOUR pocket. Some people talking here have np idea what they're talking about. I wouldn't give a shit if the city pays out a billion dollars, as long as not one penny comes out of my pocket. If the city actually gave a shit they wouldn't have had the law passed that they CANNOT pay punitive damages. They made it so the only one with money to lose is YOU.
Oh, and BTW, Charlie our judgement makes yours look like a tip at Starbucks.
Definitely wrong on this accusation. I was sued for millions after a conviction was overturned (Judge Hooks). The City of Chicago brought in a private attorney who did a great job. He found new information we didn't even know during the original criminal trial. The City did try to settle multiple times for 150K. Shithead and his shithead attorney wanted 7 figures. City told them to pound sand. We went to trial and won. I talked to my attorney and the Corp Counsel on a regular basis. They were beyond happy to win my case as it was a complete farce!!!!!!!! The Corp Counsel told me the number 1 reason they settle cases is far too many Officers have amnesia once a civil action is started against them. I didn't have any amnesia and fought like a mother fucker!
Gamble $20k-$100k of MY own money? Sounds like YOU are the one that has no idea what you’re talking about. Local public entities and public officials acting in their official capacities are legally exempt from paying punitive or exemplary damages.It’s called the Tort Immunity Act. So yes, go take the fuckin case to trial because we all are acting within our legal and official capacities. Now those being reckless and breaking policy, they’re on their own.
Not if you lose the case retard, I've been there personally.
The trial lawyers are responsible for all the warning and safety labels on consumer products today. It seems some drunk good ole boy decided to lift his lawn mower over his head and attempt to trim his hedges. He was severely injured and the lawyers sued Toro and won big. (Circa 1980s) The lawyers reasoning was the manufacturer was negligent because they didn't specifically indicate that a lawn mower shouldn't be used to trim one's hedges while drunk! We live in dumb times!!!
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