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[Charlie]

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/dani...-149758275.html

I think this deserves the biggest settlement in the history of lawsuits.

After days of being ignored, Chong said he tried to take his own life by breaking the glass from his spectacles with his teeth and then attempting to carve “Sorry mom,” on his arm. He said nurses also found pieces of glass in his throat, which led him to believe he ingested the pieces purposefully.


Chong said he could hear DEA employees and people in neighboring cells. He screamed to let them know he was there, but no one replied. He kicked the door, but no one came to get him.
By the time DEA officers found Chong in his cell Wednesday morning Chong was completely incoherent, said Iredale.

“I didn’t think I would come out,” Chong said.

He said when employees discovered him in the cell that they looked confused and nervous. A DEA employee rode with him to the hospital, where they paid for Chong’s visit.

He spent three days in the intensive care unit at Sharp Hospital and his kidneys were close to failing.

Source: DEA Ignored All My Cries: Student | NBC San Diego

[jburns]

Pain and suffering is an actual damage.

[SorryaboutthatWh...]

Pain and suffering is an actual damage.

How do you assign a number to that? It's completely arbitrary. How do you decide one persons "pain and suffering" is more or less than someone else?

This post has been edited by SorryaboutthatWhoa: May 3 2012, 01:50 PM

[Beamer]

Pain and suffering is an actual damage.

How do you assign a number to that? Now it's a punishment instead of a fair recouping of loss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages

[SorryaboutthatWh...]

Pain and suffering is an actual damage.

How do you assign a number to that? Now it's a punishment instead of a fair recouping of loss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages

In that very article it mentions that punitive damages are normally brought about when you can prove intent as opposed to negligence, and there are already cases out there that show only a certain level of punitive damages can be accepted. Again, by my count your probably realistically at about 2 million. I don't think any court is going to assign an arbitrary lifelong salary to a student based on potential, this isn't MLB. The fact that the kid could've gotten a job at Target after school needs to be considered.

If the information in the article you linked is correct, you can go back to case law where a ratio of 4:1 in punitive damages is considered fair, which brings us to about 8 million, which is pretty close to what I was saying before. 10:1, which is 20 million, is largely considered unconsistutional.

Unless the article you linked to is incorrect. It is wikipedia after all so it's a pretty shitty source, right?