@trashmonkey to News • 1 year agoJohnson & Johnson is trying to file for bankruptcy. They are taking it to the Supreme Court for protection against the litigation results of their products potentially causing cancer.www.thestreet.commessage-square43arrow-up1501arrow-down18
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink31•1 year agoIANAL but I believe there is significant legal precedent against this. Most notably the recent order preventing Purdue Pharma, and the Sackler family from that very protection.
minus-square@ytsedudelink21•1 year agoThere’s gotta be a better way to rephrase that and end up with a different abbreviation than “I ANAL.” 😂
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink26•1 year agoDoes I Literally, Obviously, Vociferously, Emphatically Am Not A Lawyer work better?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 year agoYou’d think so, but that’s been a standard abbreviation around the Internet for at least 5 years.
minus-squareares35linkfedilink10•1 year agoit’s a lot older than that. dates back to usenet, so three decades at least.
minus-squaremars296linkfedilink3•1 year agoQuestion is when it became “the standard”. We need an internet historian to weigh in.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoI figured it was longer, but I couldn’t be bothered to research it, so I could only speak from my own memory.
minus-squareThe Pantserlink7•1 year agoINAL would be less ANALy, I’m Not A Lawyer but I love IANAL because I have to stop and think about butts.
minus-square@xkforcelink8•1 year agoPurdue mostly got away with what they did though. Half a million dead and just a relative slap on the wrist by comparison.
IANAL but I believe there is significant legal precedent against this. Most notably the recent order preventing Purdue Pharma, and the Sackler family from that very protection.
There’s gotta be a better way to rephrase that and end up with a different abbreviation than “I ANAL.” 😂
Does I Literally, Obviously, Vociferously, Emphatically Am Not A Lawyer work better?
ILOVEANAL has a certain catchy thrust to it, yes.
Just slides right into place with little resistance.
Just the tip.
You’d think so, but that’s been a standard abbreviation around the Internet for at least 5 years.
Closer to 15
it’s a lot older than that. dates back to usenet, so three decades at least.
Question is when it became “the standard”. We need an internet historian to weigh in.
I figured it was longer, but I couldn’t be bothered to research it, so I could only speak from my own memory.
INAL would be less ANALy, I’m Not A Lawyer but I love IANAL because I have to stop and think about butts.
Let’s be honest: ever met a non-anal lawyer?
Definitely true
Purdue mostly got away with what they did though. Half a million dead and just a relative slap on the wrist by comparison.