Wedding Redo

Dan7312Dan7312 Registered Users Posts: 1,330 Major grins
edited November 5, 2011 in Weddings
This is weird, couple divorces but groom wants 'tog to pay for redo because the flower toss was missed.

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  • ShimaShima Registered Users Posts: 2,547 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2011
    That dude is psycho. I could see complaining if you were still married but a) why did he wait 6 years and b) why even bother when it ended in divorce and he has no idea where his ex-wife lives overseas. Seriously, the dude has problems, lol.
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2011
    Opps!! I just posted this in business thread. :D

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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2011
    Shima wrote: »
    That dude is psycho. I could see complaining if you were still married but a) why did he wait 6 years and b) why even bother when it ended in divorce and he has no idea where his ex-wife lives overseas. Seriously, the dude has problems, lol.

    Shima,

    While the "dude" has problems the bigger problem is ours. We have to put up with brain dead unaccountable judges. The poor photographer has spent $50,000 to defend the absolute nonsense the judge is supporting. Now I don't know about you but I don't have $50,000.

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  • heatherfeatherheatherfeather Registered Users Posts: 2,738 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2011
    That is CRAZY! Remind me not to work for nutjobs. Wow.
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  • TenThirteenTenThirteen Registered Users Posts: 488 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2011
    He's only doing it because he's out of work and wants money. He doesn't even know where his ex-wife lives! lol

    Makes me sick.
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  • ShimaShima Registered Users Posts: 2,547 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2011
    Sam wrote: »
    Shima,

    While the "dude" has problems the bigger problem is ours. We have to put up with brain dead unaccountable judges. The poor photographer has spent $50,000 to defend the absolute nonsense the judge is supporting. Now I don't know about you but I don't have $50,000.

    Sam

    I don't either, that's why I pay for liability insurance.
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  • rpcrowerpcrowe Registered Users Posts: 733 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2011
    Nuts in front and behind the bench...
    heatherfeather wrote: »
    That is CRAZY! Remind me not to work for nutjobs. Wow.

    There was a lawsuit a couple of year ago in California in which a self-proclained psychic sued her doctor because she said that she lost her "psychic powers" due to brain surgery....

    AND SHE WON THE CASE!
  • babowcbabowc Registered Users Posts: 510 Major grins
    edited November 4, 2011
    Laughing.gif.. What are these judges thinking...

    But does the statue of limitations take effect here? Something along the lines of 5yrs, no?

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  • Matthew SavilleMatthew Saville Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,352 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2011
    My slightly heated post from another community:

    People do desperate things for money, these days. That waste-of-air has been unemployed since 2008, I wonder why. Maybe because morals and logic are completely absent from his self-entitled little brain?


    The insane part is, unfortunately, ...they're allowing court hearings to proceed for a breach of contract issue. OUCH. This whole thing is, as they said, a huge abuse of the legal system. This is what is horribly wrong with America today. My wife told me the other day, that she saw a video or heard someone BLAMING MISTER ROGERS for telling everyone that they're all special, because that created a sense of entitlement. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

    How about we get up off our asses, stop blaming others for our problems, and stop looking for scapegoats and loopholes to solve our financial problems, and GET A JOB, SIR! (This aggression will not stand, man!) As much as I love "the dude", this scene really says it all quite well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq0QJOLbl2E

    Bottom line- I'm sick of this crap. The more this happens, the more we will strangle our own society into a crippled state of quasi-socialism. We're screwed.


    I dunno, maybe the contract clearly stated that the photographer would be there for unlimited time, or that they would get X hours of coverage, but did in fact leave early. And according to "wedding lawsuit guy", he was treated very poorly and yelled at. And what sucks even more is, this punk-ass is a lawyer's son, so I'm assuming he wouldn't do something this insane unless he KNEW he could win on the breach of contract issue. And the studio is paying $50K for their own legal fees? That's insane, that's so completely unfair. You walk out of a wedding 15 minutes early, and six years later you get nailed for tens ouf thousands of dollars? WTF.... Do you realize, that if he had won the whole suit, the studio would be hit for probably 0.1 million bucks? Over 15 minutes of missed coverage. I'm sorry, but even if I knew I had a rock-solid case against a photographer, I wouldn't do that to them. Maybe my flaw is that I feel obligated to BUST MY ASS for the money I use to pay my bills?

    Either way, that still sucks. It just goes to show, DELIVER WHAT YOUR CONTRACT SAYS YOU WILL!
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  • WillCADWillCAD Registered Users Posts: 722 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2011
    Obviously, since his ex-wife is unreachable, he won't be able to re-create the wedding. So instead, he'll probably ask for the cash value.

    The plaintiff is a lawyer's son. He's not nuts, he's a judicial scam artist, and I believe he knows exactly how crazy this suit sounds and is doing it solely to scam some money out of the studio.

    I think he figured that the studio would simply settle out of court for a few grand, to avoid bad publicity, but they haven't, and this has blown up in Mr. Scam Artist's face. He's engaged in a legal form of extortion: "give me money or I'll ruin the reputation of your studio with these scurrilous assertions."
    babowc wrote: »
    Laughing.gif.. What are these judges thinking...

    But does the statue of limitations take effect here? Something along the lines of 5yrs, no?

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    I'm not sure, but I believe that statutes of limitations only apply to criminal charges, not to civil suits.

    I could imagine that some states might have some sort of time limit on civil suits for breach of contract, however.
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  • Matthew SavilleMatthew Saville Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,352 Major grins
    edited November 5, 2011
    WillCAD wrote: »
    Obviously, since his ex-wife is unreachable, he won't be able to re-create the wedding. So instead, he'll probably ask for the cash value.

    The plaintiff is a lawyer's son. He's not nuts, he's a judicial scam artist, and I believe he knows exactly how crazy this suit sounds and is doing it solely to scam some money out of the studio.

    I think he figured that the studio would simply settle out of court for a few grand, to avoid bad publicity, but they haven't, and this has blown up in Mr. Scam Artist's face. He's engaged in a legal form of extortion: "give me money or I'll ruin the reputation of your studio with these scurrilous assertions."



    I'm not sure, but I believe that statutes of limitations only apply to criminal charges, not to civil suits.

    I could imagine that some states might have some sort of time limit on civil suits for breach of contract, however.

    "Judicial scam artist"... Wow, that' the perfect term for this low-life! It perfectly captures everything that I feel is wrong with society today...

    I believe the article said something about filing the lawsuit before the statute of limitations expired. SO yeah, New York probably has something around the 5-year mark for civil cases...

    Again, I cannot emphasize how much I loathe this kind of behavior. We're flushing our self-motivation and work ethic down the toilet with crap like this. I would go so far as to say that t's idiots like these that prompt more government regulation and communist-like intervention in our financial and legal rights...


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