[email protected] (Paul Gilmartin) writes: > Anyone can take anyone to court. That's not the question. As [a] Civil > Procedure professor said, "You can sue the Bishop of Boston for > bastardy. But can you collect?" (Origin obscure.)
when I first moved to boston area and joined the ibm science center, a parish north of boston was about to sue the cardinal, they had a bond for something like $26M for building new catholic high school. As soon as it was built, cardinal sells off the new high school and keeps the money (leaving the parish still on the hook for the $26M bond). The parish was about to sue the cardinal for the money, when the cardinal has late night, backroom (described as cigar smoke filled) session with the legislature ... which passes special law allowing cardinal to keep the money (and immune from civil liability). It was explained to me that such things go on in the boston area all the time. recent posts mentioning ransoms: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#84 Time to sack the chief of computing in the NHS? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#90 Ransomware on Mainframe application ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017e.html#91 Ransomware on Mainframe application ? -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
