Hi, Texans. Thought this might help make your day! h/t to kpete for originally posting it.
Sometimes I think there just might be a God
Bob and Jane Cull bought a house in suburban Ft. Worth, Texas in 1996 for about $233,000. It promptly started falling apart on them. They sued the builder. An arbitration ruling went for the Culls in the amount of $800,000.
The builder spent $1 million fighting the $800,000. And yesterday, a lower court in Texas awarded the Culls $51 million.
The builder is Bob Perry, the chief financial backer of the 2004 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and of various other right-wing outfits.The story is actually even worse than the above. The case originally worked its way up to the state supreme court. The supremes -- every one whom received a campaign contribution from Perry, according to news story I linked to above -- vacated the arbitration award and kicked the matter back down to a lower court. And it was that lower court that produced the $51 million ruling.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky