Typical Georgia

[Gatoringa]

UGA lawsuits over fatal crash likely delayed for months

A pair of lawsuits that arose following fatal crash that stunned the University of Georgia football program appears to be on hiatus through April, a delay the lawyer for Devin Willock’s father says benefits defendants Jalen Carter and the UGA athletic association.

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[unfrozencvmanvol]

It's what the law is down here, has been for decades. If you are a member of the State legislature your job is to attend the legislative session. It applies to all legislators, regardless of where they went to school. Nothing crooked about it in the sense that it wasn't written to benefit UGA athletics, it was written to make sure that the people elected to the General Assembly were able to put their focus there.

 

[OrangeVolMan]

It's what the law is down here, has been for decades. If you are a member of the State legislature your job is to attend the legislative session. It applies to all legislators, regardless of where they went to school. Nothing crooked about it in the sense that it wasn't written to benefit UGA athletics, it was written to make sure that the people elected to the General Assembly were able to put their focus there.

I’m not sure how involved you are in politics but I can ensure you it was passed to benefit legislators. it allows them to get more clients and use a law to delay their client’s cases. If it was passed for the reason you state then it should apply to all occupations.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

I’m not sure how involved you are in politics but I can ensure you it was passed to benefit legislators. it allows them to get more clients and use a law to delay their client’s cases. If it was passed for the reason you state then it should apply to all occupations.

You will notice, I said:

"Nothing crooked about it in the sense that it wasn't written to benefit UGA athletics"

It wasn't written to benefit UGA athletics. That said there are certainly two inherent biases in the law, the first is in favor of the government, especially the IRS, and the second is in favor of lawyers. That any law incidentally benefits lawyers is never surprising (and I say that as a lawyer), because lawyers write them.

You also have to note that the ability to actually postpone things is different across different professions, the State has the power to postpone legal matters for lawyers, whereas they don't have the power to postpone patients getting sick for doctors, etc., that's going to happen regardless of what the legislature says. And I didn't say it was applicable across all occupations, I said it was applicable no matter what school you went to. There's quite a few lawyers down here who went to Tennessee, and if one them gets elected to the legislature, they can do this too.