{"id":4919,"date":"2004-07-26T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2004-07-26T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/07\/26\/was-this-fair-balanced\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:35","slug":"was-this-fair-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/07\/26\/was-this-fair-balanced\/","title":{"rendered":"Was this Fair Balanced?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1864'><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/therrmometerhot.gif\" alt=\"thermometer hot\" \/>&nbsp; Although warned by the <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/Metro+East\/4985AB6C4C9761C986256EDA004AAB5E?OpenDocument&amp;Headline=In+a+crowd,+all's+fair+for+tort+reform+backers++&amp;highlight=2%2Cmadison%2Ccounty%2Cfair\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">Post-Dispatch<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">, Evan and Andrea (of&nbsp;<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.riverbendlaw.com\/\">Schaeffer &amp; Lamere, P.C.<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">)&nbsp;braved <\/FONT><\/SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">the <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">Madison County Fair<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"> yesterday.&nbsp; As described in Evan&#8217;s <EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.legalunderground.com\/2004\/07\/tort_reformers_.html\">Notes<\/A><\/EM>, they <\/FONT><\/SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><SPAN>encountered hogs <EM>and<\/EM> tort reformers. <\/SPAN><SPAN><EM>You decide<\/EM> <\/SPAN><SPAN>whether Baby Sam is being <\/SPAN><SPAN>attacked or protected by the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.riverbendlaw.com\/sharkattack.htm\">lawyer shark<\/A>.<\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><\/FONT><\/SPAN>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">He&nbsp;may have never met a trial lawyer in early 19th Century Japan, but <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/webusers.xula.edu\/dlanoue\/issa\/index.html\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">Master Issa<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"> seems to know <\/FONT><\/SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\">a thing or two about sharks and children under attack:<\/FONT>&nbsp; <\/SPAN><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><\/SPAN>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><\/SPAN>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Helvetica\" size=\"2\">looking at the shark skin<BR>of a cactus&#8230;<BR>a cold night<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Helvetica\">&#8220;shark tiny&#8221;<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Helvetica\"><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Helvetica\" size=\"2\">from the willow<BR>a ghost attacks!<BR>the child<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Helvetica\"><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\"><FONT size=\"1\"><EM>[translator <\/EM>&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/webusers.xula.edu\/dlanoue\/issa\/abouttran.html\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#42aac8\" size=\"1\"><STRONG>David G. Lanoue<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Arial\"><FONT size=\"1\"><EM>]&nbsp;<\/EM> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"1\"><SPAN><SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"1\"><SPAN><SPAN><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\"><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><EM><STRONG>one-breath&nbsp;pundit&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">See John <STRONG>Stossel<\/STRONG> on <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/2020\/GiveMeABreak\/GMAB_edwards_040723-1.html\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">Lawyers, Edwards and The Little Guy<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">.&nbsp; And <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/forums.go.com\/abcnews\/forum?start=0&amp;forumID=17&amp;byThread=true\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">opine<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">. [via <A href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/2004\/07\/john_stossell_o.html\">Prof. B<\/A>]<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/07\/25\/opinion\/25ehre.html?ex=1248494400&amp;en=21cbeda26aa1ebba&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland\">Ehrenreich<\/A> in <EM>NYT<\/EM>: &#8220;by the year 4004, every square inch of the United States will be covered by [Wal-Mart] supercenters&#8221;<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><br \/>\n<LI><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">update (July 30, 2004): I wonder&nbsp;what <A href=\"http:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/archives\/001370.html\">MedPundit<\/A> thinks about that shark attacking <A href=\"http:\/\/www.riverbendlaw.com\/sharkattack.htm\">Baby Sam<\/A>.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/LI><\/UL><\/UL><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Although warned by the Post-Dispatch, Evan and Andrea (of&nbsp;Schaeffer &amp; Lamere, P.C.)&nbsp;braved the Madison County Fair yesterday.&nbsp; As described in Evan&#8217;s Notes, they encountered hogs and tort reformers. You decide whether Baby Sam is being attacked or protected by the lawyer shark. &nbsp; He&nbsp;may have never met a trial lawyer in early 19th Century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1hl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13715,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions\/13715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}