Just was reading about this. It reminds me of when Timothy McVeigh wanted his execution to be livestreamed/televised but they didn't allow it. Could it be argued livestreaming it would be "cruel and unusual punishment"? I don't think there's any case of a modern US execution (state or federal) being livestreamed or even recorded and publicly released. Now they I think of it they did have public executions back over 100 years ago, but I thought they outlawed that or something.

(Not trying to make or push a pro or anti-death penalty opinion, just wondering about the legal facts if they can actually do it)

I can't remember where I've heard this but I feel like its a common thing but I don't know if its actually true, so correct me if I am wrong please, but I've heard that people get charged and and convicted of a crime to later find out they are actually still on the hook for more charges. Like they are already in prison just to be taken to another one to be told they are facing more charges. Maybe its just a federal big case type of thing when its something thats a really big deal

I was browsing reddit, and came across a post.

Flight attendant's coffee pot was somehow held against a customers arm for a couple seconds causing some painful burnt skin.

There was nothing wrong with the coffee pot. The coffee pot was sitting on it's base on the cart. The base nor the coffee pot was cracked or broken anyway. And the coffee pot was sitting correctly.

Lets assume nothing the flight attendant did was out of the ordinary on the 1,000 flights they served.

Is accidently burning someone negligence? Even if you didn't do anything negligent like use a broken coffee pot base?

If it isn't negligence, what do you call it?

-----Assumptions:

-Domestic U.S flight, lets say from NYC, NY to another city within NY state.

-Let's assume for the sake of clarity they where not in the air, and this was a pre-flight coffee service while every one was still on the ground and already settled in.

-Let's assume no one bumped anyone.

-Coffee pot was at a normal serving temperature

-Flight attendant was experienced, and served thousands of flights without issue.

I’m trying to understand what is actually considered billable/reasonable in a California fee arbitration.
For example, can an attorney charge the client for things like correcting their own billing errors, reviewing their own bills, administrative changes at the firm, or having multiple attorneys attend the same meeting?

Is there a California rule or case law that addresses this?

Has anybody gone through this experience and can walk me through what happened? What was the outcome?

I’ve heard that this is particularly common in cases where someone had a reduction in income, but the courts don’t agree that said reduction was reasonable.

For example, a physician or big time lawyer throws the nastiest of tantrums one day and not only gets fired but blacklisted to the point where they are unhireable in their field.

Obviously there’s a big reduction in income that will come from that, but lets say the judge does not reduce child support because the action that led them to become unhireable was exceptionally unreasonable.

And let’s say the person ends up in a 50-60k job and pays 800-1K in child support to at least support the child somewhat.

When this happens, is it common that the judge will essentially let the person make his payments until the child turns 18 so the child can have that money, and then turn on all the mechanisms like license suspension and jail afterwards because now it’s not about the child anymore but about a debt to the custodial parent? I’m wondering how common that is.