by If you didn’t receive an email with my latest posts, that is because I’m still working out the kinks in MailPoet. That is the app that is supposed to automatically send full text updates of all my new blog posts once a day.
It would have done it this morning if I had linked it to the correct mailing list. As it was, the list was linked to a default list with zero subscribers and not the real list.
Oops.
Maybe tomorrow it will work properly.
Software. You can’t live with it and you can’t live without it.
John I’m getting your emails just fine except they’re attributed to “Volokh Conspiracy” ?!?
I can send you screenshot…
I can’t imagine why they are attributed to Volokh Conspiracy. I have the utmost respect for Eugene Volokh and the writers there but I have no connection to them. So, yes, please send me a screen shot.
Off topic, I read this with my mouth agape today:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/remington-offers-33-million-families-sandy-hook-school-shooting-victims-2021-07-27/
If Remington settles this lawsuit, I dont GAF how many green and white boxes show up on the shelves, no matter how cheap. They can go into bankruptcy a third time for all I care.
more
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sandy-hook-families-offered-33-million-settlement-by-gun-maker-remington-11627503045?mod=mhp
Evidently, the settlement is being funded by the insurers.
Funded or driven? Doesn’t a company have to agree to a settlement before their insurance company has to step in and start making payments? When are these companies (not just firearms) going to realize that settling is a sure path to destruction? Yes, lawsuits are expensive. But settling and paying is seen by and will be spun as “admission of guilt” by the average person and by the left respectively.
By “funded” I mean that two of four of Remington’s insurers have agreed to the settlement. “Ironshore and James River are funding the proposed settlement, a person with knowledge of the case said. Chubb and Swiss Re haven’t agreed to put money into a proposed settlement, this person said.”
Based on the WSJ article, it looks like the settlement is happening between the bankrupt entity and the Sandy Hook families. Remington already sold the ammo brand to Vista and Sierra, and sold the firearms brand to some other entities (Ruger and Roundhill Group LLC).* The bankrupt entity apparently has no stake in any of these**, so the bankrupt entity doesn’t care about either brand – they can damage it all they like with no financial repercussions.
If I were Vista, Ruger, et al legal dept, I would object to this (I think that the bankruptcy court has to approve this settlement). I think its clear that people (like me) will be pissed and boycott Remington. However, Vista, Ruger, et al likely have nothing to do with this settlement. Not being a bankruptcy attorney or IP attorney, and with no access to the sales agreement, I am not sure that they would have any legal standing to object to the settlement either. They could argue it damages the intellectual property that they bought (the “brand”). Or, in the sales agreement, they may have stipulated to broad terms of a settlement. Depending on what kind of marketing information they have from Remington, they may have made the calculation a trial would do more damage that bad press from a settlement.
Personally I have a huge problem with the whole industry of risk management insurance. This is case in point. I am pretty pissed about this settlement, but I am not sure anything can be done other than ranting on the internet.
* https://www.wsj.com/articles/bankrupt-gun-maker-remington-outdoor-to-be-broken-up-and-sold-11601246175?mod=article_inline
**As far as I can tell, Vista paid cash, and did not grant an equity stake, which would have been smarter.