As they passed a construction site, skirting mounds of dug-up sidewalk, Mr. Figueroa cheerfully called out his version of a warning to tread carefully: "This is a good sue!" he yelled.
But good luck suing a rosebush.
What good will suing his doctor do? (Oh, yeah -- help with the rent).
Law faculties have long sent their students to gain practical experience by giving free advice to the poor a worthy pursuit, but it often means learning how to be good at suing businesses, especially private landlords.
Mr. Olson has good experience suing governments, and is the lead lawyer representing the bondholders in the big sovereign debt litigation going on in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan.
Reactive may feel good - suing or prosecuting guys like Mozilo - but that won't bring back the hundreds of billions of dollars lost in the process, let alone the disruption and pain to American homeowners.
(If this one doesn't, Walgreens would have a good case for suing its lawyers for malpractice).
An eclectic group bound together only by their common dislike of being spied on for no good reason is suing the NSA and several federal officials in northern California.
"I won't suggest that it's a good idea or not a good idea to sue the city in the next year," he continued.
Just last Friday, 10 of them thought it'd be a good idea to sue for the right to prevent kids from using facilities: Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming.
But Sessions said there was a "concern" that the Justice Department could sue "good departments" just because there were "individuals within the department" who had done wrong.
