Month: April 2023

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You might have noticed that more and more I am linking to https://courtlistener.com. There is a very good reason for this. They are doing a great job.

I’ve talked about how hard it is to find case documents and how expensive it is to get them from the government. CourtListener is a sort of crowdsourced legal document repository. If you want to help out CourtListener all you need to do is to download their “RECAP” browser extension and signup for a PACER account. They have instructions on the site.

When you are looking at a case, on CourtListener, it will either tell you that they already have the document, and you can just read it on their site. If they don’t, they will have a link to buy the document on PACER. When you buy the document on PACER, the RECAP add-on automatically uploads that document to the RECAP archive.

While it is expensive to download PACER documents, the big cost is doing searches on PACER. By using the links supplied by CourtListener, you don’t do any searches on PACER. It takes you directly to the page to purchase the documents you are looking for.

In addition, if you buy less than $30 worth of searches and downloads per quarter, PACER doesn’t charge you. This means that if you only download a couple of documents for RECAP from PACER, no charges.

Anyway, go give them a look if you are interested in looking at or for court documents.

CourtListener is a project run by the Free Law Project. To quote them:

Started in 2010, Free Law Project is the leading 501(c)(3) nonprofit using software, data, and advocacy to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.

We do this by:

  • Curating and providing free, public, and permanent access to primary legal materials
  • Developing software useful for legal research and innovation
  • Fostering and supporting an open ecosystem for legal research
  • Supporting academic research in the legal sector

A number of major projects exemplify this approach:

  • The RECAP Suite — A collection of tools to open up federal court data.
  • CourtListener.com — Our fully-searchable and accessible archive of court data including growing repositories of opinions, oral arguments, judges, judicial financial records, and federal filings.
  • Bots.law — A collection of bots that help attorneys, journalists and the public keep up with court cases.

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Lethal force in defense of property

I keep saying ot, but it is time that Red states legalize the use of lethal force in the defense of property.

We’ve seen far too many videos like this of shoplifters carrying loads of products out of a store.

 

These people are never arrested or prosecuted.

Crime expands along with our willingness to put up with it.

The tolerance for shoplifting has allowed mass looting to become popular.

 

But I think the worst story I’ve seen on this recently is this one.

Florida retiree says lesbian squatters with ’15’ pit bulls trashed rental property she owns to tune of $38,000 after lying to cops they’d paid deposit and showing fake receipt

A Florida retiree said lesbian squatters, who own up to 15 pit bulls, caused $38,000 worth of damages at her rental property after lying to police saying they paid a deposit and had been scammed by the landlord.

Patti Peeples and her co-owner Dawn Tiura discovered they had two people illegally living in their Jacksonville rental home more than 40 days ago and believe the unidentified squatters had been there since March.

They discovered the female couple – who haven’t been named, and who were evicted on Tuesday – living in their home after Peeples sent a handyman to carry out routine repairs after their previous tenants left.

When she did confront the two women, they presented her a receipt, showing that they had paid their first and last months’ rent and a pet fee for a total of $3,330 after finding the home on Zillow and signing a rental lease.

‘I said: “This is a fraudulent lease, the house is not for rent,’ Peeples told Fox News’ Lawrence Jones Cross Country.

Peeples and Tiura would confront the women several times and on one occasion, one of the women would shove Peeples out of her own home. One also threatened ‘break your phone’ if Peeples didn’t leave, and a clip showed the woman threatening to call the police.

It took more than a month before they could evict the women the from the home, but what they found inside was much worse. The two women had left around $38,000 of damage behind as they ripped down drywall, smashed tiles, and ripped doors off its hinges.

The two homeowners face even more complications as their insurance might not cover the damage if it is ruled that the squatters hadn’t occupied the home. If a property is not occupied for 60 days, owners need to have vacancy insurance and if it is ruled the squatters were not actually occupying the home – despite living there – insurance would not have to cover the extensive damage.

Two squatters were illegally living in a woman’s home, and due to the law, the homeowner couldn’t evict them for a month.

During that time, the squatters did $38K in damages to the house and the insurance won’t cover it.

The law has slid so far in the direction of favoring criminals and thieves that honest citizens can’t function.

We need to legalize lethal force in the defense of property.

Walk out of a store with an armful of merchandise and the store manager can shoot you in the back.

Squat in a house and the homeowner can put two in your head and get enough put of your estate to replace the carpet.

Am I advocating for murdering thieves?

Yes.  We need more than a reaction, we need an over reaction.

Watch as this shit dries up and law enforcement goes back to enforcing the law.

 

 

Orwell 2024

“In the end, the Party would announce that trans women are women, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that a dick and two balls makes a man?” – George Orwell, 2024

Tennessee Mayors of Top Cities want gun control.

Let’s see:

Nashville Mayor is John Cooper, a Democrat.
Knoxville Mayor is Indya Kincannon, a Democrat.
Shelby County (Memphis) Mayor is Lee Harris, a Democrat.
Chattanooga Mayor is Tim Kelly, an “independent” and a co-chair of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

And the other thing they all have in common? They are running the cities driving violent crime in the Volunteer State.

Maybe it is not the guns after all, huh?