Comments on: Rocket Goes To Court

By: Texas Gal

Texas Gal — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:40:22 +0000

Oh, and “Tractor Teeth” would make a great band name.

By: Texas Gal

Texas Gal — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:37:32 +0000

Discovery = lawyer play time. The best is when discovery includes a request for email records– going through and reading everyone’s private and often quite embarrassing emails, only because they were dumb enough to send personal stuff out on the company email account.

Note to everyone: do not EVER send anything out using your business email account (a) that you wouldn’t want a room full of junior lawyers reading and snickering at, or (b) that you wouldn’t want read in open court. Because chances are the company you work for has been sued umpteen million times, and your emails will be subject to discovery.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:04:16 +0000

Clemens must really believe that there is no evidence against him in any form aside from McNamee’s deposition. Seems unlikely to me, but…

I worry that in his actions trying to prove his own innocence, Clemens may find himself in even more hot water. Defamation suits are not fun for either party, since the defense, in trying to prove its case, will naturally try to prove that the statements in question were true.

And, if this lawsuit pans out in Clemens’ favor, it means McNamee lied to Mitchell’s crew about at least one player.

In short, this is going to get REALLY, REALLY ugly. This is the kind of story I stop following eventually because I get so disgusted with everyone involved.

By: starr4

starr4 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:50:57 +0000

Oh yeah, Clemens has now opened himself up to a host of new risks, not the least of which is the discovery process. This is not a step to take if you wanted to mitigate the risks and issues.

Strap in, is right. Go on, start pulling tractors with your teeth (my favorite quote from the interview last night.)!