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Usurious loans to plaintiffs: An ugly “business”

Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the early generations of mankind, works his ancestral acres with oxen of his own breeding, from all usury free. — Horace, Epodes Once again the New York Times provides a thought-provoking … Continue reading

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Why sue? Because a hospital overradiates your brain.

From the New York Times: W. Virginia Hospital Overradiated Brain Scan Patients, Records Show – NYTimes.com.  

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Retainers and legal fees: Costs and expenses from the lawyer’s POV

The financial accounts he kept in these early years of manhood reveal a meticulous man much given to recording every detail of his expenditures. If, when traveling on legal business, he had his clothes washed and paid a shilling to … Continue reading

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