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To: Carl R. who wrote (289)	12/8/2000 1:42:14 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 644

Carl, I take it back--Sauls is technically a Democrat. According to a NYT story today, he is from a political family in FL. His father was a county clerk, family had many political connections. His wife is a Republican, and, allegedly, most people who don't "know" assume he is a Republican. He has a long-standing feud with the FLSC, who removed him as Chief Judge of the Leon County Circuit Court in 1998 for his allegedly "autocratic", arbitrary and unfair management style which helped to create a divided court and staff. All of this was rebutted by others in the article (especially by his wife), but in any case, apparently he has not changed his political affiliation. So I stand corrected. Sam Even more OT---> P.S. On the other point in this post, <<Juries consider the wealth of a defendant in setting damages, especially punitive damages. By my way of thinking judgements should be meted out based on principles of law and the chips should fall where they may.>> Well, the idea is that the defendent, if guilty, should be punished. In one of the pioneering lawsuit cases against Delta Airlines (which was found to have illegally bumped a vacationer from a plane, causing him to miss a connection and lose a vacation!), the attorney argued that making Delta repay him for the cost of his vacation wouldn't sufficiently punish them, and wouldn't make them change their ways, so he managed to get millions of dollars in punitive damages for his client. I forget what the settlement was, but it was huge and, to a lay person's mind, outlandish. But it got the message across, and we have our current way of "bumping" overbooked flights as a result.