Comments on: SNAP Abuse Victim Shocker: Settlement Lawyers ‘Took the Money and Ran’

By: Publion

Publion — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:33:06 +0000

It's a funny thing. To hear the SNAP folks tell it it was the bishops and 'pedophile priests' who were running nothing but an international conspiracy ring to abuse kids; and that there was a 'culture of rape' (that term has a familiar ring to it) in the Church. You could imagine the bishops and priests doing chest-bumps over champagne and single-malt, talking about whom they had raped and whom they planned to rape (like warlord soldiery bragging over brews about how many (fill in the blanks) they had offed recently.
And all along it was the well-remunerated tort attorneys – aided and abetted by 'feeder' organizations supposedly working for persons claiming to have been abused – who were treating this whole thing as a sly but lucrative game.
The 'New York Times' recently ran an article (April 17; 'Disabilities Act Used By Lawyers In Flood Of Suits') about disability-access cases where attorneys quietly targeted offending businesses (even small ones) for this or that offense (no ramps, ramps too narrow and so on). Then the attorneys trolled among disability advocacy groups for 'plaintiffs' and brought their cases (the law as written allows attorneys to collect their fees from the Defendants).
But the 'Times' – can you imagine? – did not connect the dots to the game as it is played for far higher stakes in the Catholic abuse lawsuits.

By: Don S.

Don S. — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:53:08 +0000

…And so it goes. You may notice that the sexual abuse in the public schools is ignored, because (according to the laws that the teachers' unions got passed) you can't sue the public schools.

By: Mike Malone

Mike Malone — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:54:16 +0000

What a shock…oooooohhhhh myyyyyy. I'm betting David Clohessy ain't doing chest bumps now. Before this is done SNAP will be exposed for the money grubbing, ambulance chasers they really are.

By: Tony de New York

Tony de New York — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:58:00 +0000

Why is it that i am NOT suprise?

By: Dai Yoshida

Dai Yoshida — Wed, 02 May 2012 12:37:28 +0000

Oh come on. It has always been about the money. Men like John C. Manly, dispite the ironic name, would never have taken the case if this was involving Bob's Storefront Church. The ambulance chasers only goes after deep-pocket organizations.

By: Uwe

Uwe — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:01:09 +0000

Is this a surpise to anyone that contingency lawyers are really only interested in the money?
But good to hav ethem outed here.
When they say it is about "justice" it is really about the money.