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TexasTowelie

(120,718 posts)
Tue Feb 5, 2019, 04:48 AM Feb 2019

Rand Paul won big in court, but he doesn't think you should [View all]

Whew, buddy.

I’m betting Rand Paul has never been happier to have Democrats around than he was Wednesday afternoon.

That’s when a jury in Bowling Green ordered his neighbor and archenemy to pay him $580,000 for the blindside tackle that broke six of his ribs and collapsed his lung.

If not for those litigious, leftist, liberal lawmakers who have for years kept Kentucky from passing legislation that would limit how much money people can collect when they sue somebody, Rene Boucher might owe Paul a heck of a lot less.

Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky and an eye surgeon, has long favored laws that limit how much a jury can award people in noneconomic damages.

Read more: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/joseph-gerth/2019/02/01/rand-paul-thinks-you-shouldnt-win-big-like-he-did-court/2733882002/

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