Comments on: The Other Shoe on the Port Deal? http://poliblogger.com/?p=9422 A rough draft of my thoughts... Mon, 08 May 2024 19:45:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2 by: Honza Prchal http://poliblogger.com/?p=9422#comment-449404 Thu, 23 Feb 2024 16:03:43 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=9422#comment-449404 On the other hand, having papers of a company that helps it's government actually fight terrorism available for civil discovery in the USA may be a very rational thing to avoid. That would particularly be the case in a situation where the political stink began to waft after complaints by the attorney for the firm that just lost the management contract. That said, I am a trial lawyer, so I like having documents where the can be seized. I simply expect that if the cost of comliance were too high, the shipping company would simply allow every adverse inference to be drawn against it rather than reveal really secretive information. On the other hand, having papers of a company that helps it’s government actually fight terrorism available for civil discovery in the USA may be a very rational thing to avoid. That would particularly be the case in a situation where the political stink began to waft after complaints by the attorney for the firm that just lost the management contract.

That said, I am a trial lawyer, so I like having documents where the can be seized. I simply expect that if the cost of comliance were too high, the shipping company would simply allow every adverse inference to be drawn against it rather than reveal really secretive information.

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