Don't they have to reinsert the tube if legal action is ongoing (though they haven't done so yet)?
I'm not a civil procedure maven or anything, but what the parents attempted in the federal court was to get an injunction (temporary restraining order) for the tube to be reinserted. I *think* granting a TRO is the only circumstance under which it would be re-inserted during litigation.
But in order to get a TRO, you have to demonstrate, among other things, a substantial likelihood of success on the merits, which the parents were not able to do, and probably still couldn't do.
Kathy Astrom is the coolest.
That is all.
ita, I don't understand what you're arguing here. Yes, Weevil
knew that the Neptune player who placed a large bet against his team was probably fixing the game, but why would he have any sort of motivation to tell
Veronica?
My initial question was
"Surely he knew who was rigging bets?"
Tom, and I wasn't arguing against you on that -- what you said that I disagreed with was
him not losing out if the game wasn't rigged.
I'm still convinced that he set
the line, and that he was complicit with the rigging, and that's where he was making his money.
So, if I understand it correctly, what T.S.'s parents are now asking is for the
federal
courts to determine that the
state
courts
wrongly interpreted
state
law?
It's certainly possible that Weevil
was fixing the game, but I tend to think that if he was, he would have had a better plan, like braeking Wallace's kneecaps right before the game.
Ooof! =) Nice to see you Trudes! I should be working but I don't wanna.
The smart way for
Weevil to set the odds is to go entirely by the money - as long as he has equal bets on both sides, he doesn't care who wins as long as no one welshes (or is that welches?). What's important isn't who has the better chance of winning, but how lopsided the bets are going (ie, what the betters' perception of the odds is). Good luck to him to get his money with the game not thrown, though.
I'm not saying he was. Just that he wasn't
as innocent as he was acting. I'm not sure he ever said he didn't know who was to blame, but the vibe I got off the story was more like he was just standing there, as opposed to majorly involved in a fix -- I mean, no point rigging the game if bets aren't being laid.
