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    I once saw a "No Horseplay" sign at a swimming pool in Texas, so I assume that the term has some legal significance in the United States.

    Wonder what other gradations of horseplay that might exist.

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      This is good, though it has a baffling headline which bears no relation to the content of the article

      https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/o...gn-policy.html

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        Here's an example of how "horseplay" can be used in California law

        [A]n injury suffered by an employee while engaged in horseplay is not compensable as not arising out of employment. (Hodges v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (1978) 82 Cal.App.3d 894, 901 [147 Cal. Rptr. 546] [43 Cal.Comp.Cases870], citing Dalsheim v Industrial Acc. Com. (1932) 215 [C]al. 107, 111-114 [8 P.2d 840].) While neither statute nor case law defines the term "horseplay" (also known as "skylarking"), it has been distinguished from the term "altercation" by an absence of animosity or a willingness to inflict body harm. (Matthews v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (1972) 6 Cal.[]3d 719, 726 [493 P.2d 1165, 100 Cal. Rptr. 301] [37 Cal.Comp.Cases 124].)

        Webster's Dictionary defines horseplay as "rowdy or unruly behavior." (Webster's II New College Dict. (1995) at p. 534.) Examples of horseplay include hotel bus boys throwing hard rolls at each other (Pacific Emp. Ins. Co. v. Industrial Acc. Com. (1945) 26 Cal.[]2d 286 [158 P.2d 9] [10 Cal.Comp.Cases 89]), ranch trainees chasing each other around a bunkhouse (Argonaut Ins. Co. v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (1967) 247 Cal.App.2d 669, 672 [55 Ca. Rptr. 810, 32 Cal. Comp. Cases 14]), tenant of a company housing diving off a balcony into a swimming pool on a bet (Leffler v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (1981) 124 Cal.App.3d 739, 741-741 [177 Cal. Rtpr. 552] [46 Cal.Comp.Cases 1135]), and workplace sparring. (Hodges, supra, 82 Cal.App.3d at pp. 898-899.)

        Thus, both the dictionary and case law suggest horseplay requires some form of physical activity.
        It also sometimes comes up in assault cases, where engaging in horseplay is equated with consent to a certain degree of physical contact, but it certainly isn't an important or clearly defined element of our criminal law, nor does it have any application to the case at hand.
        Last edited by ursus arctos; 19-09-2018, 12:00.

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          ad hoc, thank you for linking that.

          It is good, but I had avoided it because of the stupid headline.

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            Horseplay.

            R v Aitken [1992] 1 WLR 1066 Court of Appeal

            The appellants were RAF officers. During the course of celebrations on completing their training, as a practical joke, they had taken to setting fire to officers wearing their fire resistant clothing. They had done this to two officers and on each occasion the fire had been extinguished without injury. However, on the third occasion the officer sustained serious burns. The appellants were court martialled and convicted of GBH under s.20 Offences Against the person Act 1861.

            Held:

            Appeal allowed. If the officer had consented or the appellant’s believed that the officer had consented it was open for the judge to find that no offence had been committed.

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              I've always thought of horseplay as being in the same realm as roughhousing, messing around, goofing off, wrasslin', and grab-assin'.

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                Is 'court martialled' good English? We wouldn't say someone who appeared in court was courted, would we? But in the old days a dashing you man would 'court' a maiden, and years later I suppose they might say they 'courted.' But in 'court martial' the 'martial' bit it is functioning as an adjective, or a noun, not a verb, so it can't really have a past tense.

                ** Worries **

                PS don't look at the would court too long otherwise the combination of letters becomes bizarre and repugnant.

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                  It’s standard in American (sometimes with a hyphen)

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                    I think court-martial is both a noun and a verb, but court-martialed is a verb only.

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                      They are professionally courteous with Thomas.

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                        They're also courteous to potted plants...

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                          Court martialled sounds fine to me too

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                            Fort trump anyone?

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                              You are just trying to break my spirit.

                              On the same day that Law and Justice got 49+ percent in the latest poll.

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                                El Trumpo came to town.

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                                  So, do you have a boat now?

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                                    It never rains, but it pours...

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                                      I wonder how far €2 bn goes when it comes to the costs of building a military base, and supporting a permanent armoured division.

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                                        You would have some change left over from the massive sign in "gold" letters.

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                                          BTW an armoured division is a very large number of soldiers. It would have been a lot of soldiers during the cold war.

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                                            Is it wrong of me to think that the best case scenario for Democrats is for the Kavanaugh nomination to get shoved through after a perfunctory and incomplete hearing?

                                            If there's a full hearing, either Kavanaugh comes through looking cleaner, or his nomination gets pulled - in which case Trump just nominates a different terrible justice who is going to get confirmed anyway.

                                            But with Kavanugh getting into the court, it creates terrible optics and questionable legitimacy to the supreme court (and, as noted by Ursus upthread, the outside possibility of him being impeached). Meanwhile, with the Federalist Society having a majority on the court, all those conservatives who hate the Republicans but vote for them because of Roe v Wade will have far less incentive to go out and vote. Meanwhile, all those women who hate Trump might be even more angry at someone being accused of sexual assault just getting a completely free pass by the 51 Republican senators.

                                            Kavanaugh on the court is definitely not good for America, but it might be very good for the Democrats.

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                                              Highly cynical, but not wrong if one assumes that the Democrats will not take control of the Senate in the midterms. Having a replacement for Kennedy that would have to get Democratic votes would mean an at least somewhat more progressive candidate.

                                              This story helps explain one of the reasons why so many establishment men responded to Blasey Ford's accusation in the way they did

                                              https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1042754824431915009

                                              https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/s...54824431915009

                                              And in the unlikely event that you needed additional evidence that Amy Chua is a piece of work.

                                              Amy Chua, a Yale professor who wrote a bestselling book on parenting called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, was known for instructing female law students who were preparing for interviews with Kavanaugh on ways they could dress to exude a “model-like” femininity to help them win a post in Kavanaugh’s chambers, according to sources.

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                                                Did you read the WSJ article she wrote about Kavanaugh? Order of the Brown Nose stuff, with added crassness.

                                                https://www.wsj.com/articles/kavanau...men-1531435729

                                                These days the press is full of stories about powerful men exploiting or abusing female employees. That makes it even more striking to hear Judge Kavanaugh’s female clerks speak of his decency and his role as a fierce champion of their careers.

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                                                  You may remember that we were colleagues for a brief time.

                                                  She is a profoundly unpleasant person.

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                                                    Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
                                                    Highly cynical, but not wrong if one assumes that the Democrats will not take control of the Senate in the midterms. Having a replacement for Kennedy that would have to get Democratic votes would mean an at least somewhat more progressive candidate.
                                                    I'm assuming that even if Kavanaugh gets pulled, the Republicans will shove through Amy Barrett or Thomas Hardiman in the lame duck session.

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