"[B]anned before trial" isn't the best way to phrase the summary judgment standard. The Federal Rule governing the granting of summary judgment states the standard as: "there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law." This rule is largely designed to prevent frivolous claims or to resolve before trial claims that are clearly erroneous in a legal sense.
Ever wanted to keep stray dogs or neighbors from trampling your backyard, but just couldn't find the system to really deter them?
Careful, as this sort of mechanism to defend your property might subject you to civil and/or criminal liability depending on your jurisdiction. Even though you are protecting your own property, you are not supposed to set traps to do so. . . . .
Were these devices to be installed in a majority of vehicles, they would be the first thing that the lawyers would seek to obtain in pre-trial discovery proceedings. Any recording device like this would become invaluable to either the plaintiff or the defendant - depending of course on what the data revealed. Considering the number of insurance defense cases that result in litigation, this device might produce an interesting result for parents who clamor for them: conclusive proof that their teenage drive was indeed negligent and thus the cause of the accident.
D.A. Pennebaker is best known for his first musician documentary, the wonderfully interesting "Don't Look Back," which profiled the then young Bob Dylan on tour. If memory serves, it was this documentary which heavily influenced the "mockumentary" style of "This is Spinal Tap" and particularly "Bob Roberts." As someone observed, Pennebaker produced "Startup.com" but he also received a great deal of acclaim for "The War Room," the documentary about the 1992 Clinton campaign which helped make James Carville and George Stephanopoulus a bit more famous. All in all, one of the better documentarians in film . . .
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"[B]anned before trial" isn't the best way to phrase the summary judgment standard. The Federal Rule governing the granting of summary judgment states the standard as: "there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law." This rule is largely designed to prevent frivolous claims or to resolve before trial claims that are clearly erroneous in a legal sense.
Ever wanted to keep stray dogs or neighbors from trampling your backyard, but just couldn't find the system to really deter them? Careful, as this sort of mechanism to defend your property might subject you to civil and/or criminal liability depending on your jurisdiction. Even though you are protecting your own property, you are not supposed to set traps to do so. . . . .
Were these devices to be installed in a majority of vehicles, they would be the first thing that the lawyers would seek to obtain in pre-trial discovery proceedings. Any recording device like this would become invaluable to either the plaintiff or the defendant - depending of course on what the data revealed. Considering the number of insurance defense cases that result in litigation, this device might produce an interesting result for parents who clamor for them: conclusive proof that their teenage drive was indeed negligent and thus the cause of the accident.
D.A. Pennebaker is best known for his first musician documentary, the wonderfully interesting "Don't Look Back," which profiled the then young Bob Dylan on tour. If memory serves, it was this documentary which heavily influenced the "mockumentary" style of "This is Spinal Tap" and particularly "Bob Roberts." As someone observed, Pennebaker produced "Startup.com" but he also received a great deal of acclaim for "The War Room," the documentary about the 1992 Clinton campaign which helped make James Carville and George Stephanopoulus a bit more famous. All in all, one of the better documentarians in film . . .