collections hands it off to a lawyer who files in court

Lawyer sends the collections agency a bill for 10x the collections amount.

Kroger recently announced plans to close around 60 stores across the US over the next 18 months

Sorry. No more money to close stores. Only money to shoot rubber bullets and throw tear gas at the newly unemployed.

And we aren’t allowed to question if the grand jury made a mistake?

You can do whatever you want. Speculate, guesstimate, do spirit fingers until you commune with the deceased.

Do you think the situation you are describing sounds like it might be manslaughter?

I’m not an attorney or a judge, so I’m not equipped to make this decision. Off the cuff, it feels like involuntary manslaughter. You’d have to ask the GJ why they decided otherwise.

But the social media posts and associated click-bait articles are describing it as capital murder. Nothing in the actual details of the case supports this.

anyone could shoot someone and claim it as an accident if no witnesses are present

Her husband was in the house when it happened, along with the rest of her immediate family.

All that to say, hospitals aren’t always acting intelligently or legally.

Right. Which is why I’d like to see the actual story and not some vague anecdote by a novelty account.

As soon as I read “glock”, I could have told you what happened.

Lots of these redneck yahoos get their weapons modified for a lighter trigger pull. And without a manual safety, that means misfiring a glock becomes incredibly easy. Absolutely possible he was trying to do a finger spin with his new lethal toy and killed his daughter.

The IRS withholds taxes from your paystub based on your W2. You can technically zero out your withholdings from the IRS, but this can incur penalties and it exposes your employer to annoying audit requests, so its discouraged at the HR level.

Paycheck withholds that come through a court order are something different entirely. And you’d really need to sit down with an actual Employment Law expert to get the fine details, as they can vary by state and county as well as by how you get paid (salary versus contractor, etc). Which agent actually gets to deduct money from your paystub, how it is escrowed, when the collector can access the money, how that deducts from your total debts, etc isn’t federalized.

But I can say with some degree of confidence that unless you owe money to the IRS, the IRS isn’t involved.

I mean, it blows my mind that people were excited to watch the Super Bowl at all. The advertisements are often the best part, given that the game itself is so mired in interruptions - often to deliberately increase the amount of air time for ads.

The eternal pestilence of physical advertising. Our world will not truly be clean until Linux purges the sins of marketing from this Earth.

Incidentally, you might be interested in Cidade Limpa

Federation is easy. BlueSky is federated, ffs. You think Jack Dorsey would be shy about selling his Twitter knock-off a second time?

They ended up only getting a few hundred Bucks, how could that possibly have been worth it for them?

If the debt collector bought the debt for pennies on the dollar, there are edge cases. Even then, it’s an expensive process to try and only works as long as you’re rooted in a particular job. As soon as you leave, the collectors have to go back and refile all their claims against you against the new employer.

So it generally isn’t worth the time, which is why the post is sus.

my cool new gun that is loaded with the safety off

Glocks don’t have manual safeties.

Wage garnishment happens at the end of a long series of legal filings and claims against the debtor.

And, again, you can avoid it by changing jobs. Which is easy enough for someone in a low wage service sector that very few debt collectors bother trying.

You tend to push for wage garnishment when the person is in a job they can’t easily leave - partner at a law firm, manager at a Fortune 500 company, tenured professor - not someone who can walk across the street and land a new job doing the same work at the same pay over the weekend.

Not according to the grand jury.

There was a heated argument prior to the shooting.

Is false right out of the gate.

Sam Littler, Lucy’s boyfriend, who was with her on the trip, told the inquest she had become upset earlier that day after having “quite a big argument” with her father about Trump, who was due to be inaugurated as president later that month.

Lucy had asked her father: “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?”

He responded that it would not upset him that much.

She was upset. He was cavalier.

He said his girlfriend’s father had spoken in the past about taking the gun out of the box and walking around with it “like James Bond”.

He treated his gun like a toy and his daughter paid for his childish attitude with her life. There’s a story here, but nobody on Lemmy seems to want to read it. They want to believe this house became some kind of war zone. The biter truth is that he fucked up because he didn’t take gun ownership seriously.

He had to watch his daughter die right in front of him, because he fumbled a weapon that was supposed to keep them safe. Idk how anyone can see that as inconsequential.

The state isn’t pursuing criminal penalties for his gross negligence. But that’s wildly different from how the story is being pitched - a guy gunning down his daughter in cold blood and escaping a criminal verdict because MAGA voters are above the law.

This is the USA, and Texas to boot…

This is British tabloid news and people misquoting articles on social media.

As opposed to a private for-profit company run by friends of the people in government?

The prosecutor, if they want, can get an indictment out of a GJ.

The prosecutor can present evidence to the GJ selectively. They can’t just demand the GJ issue an indictment. If there’s not enough selectively revealed evidence to convince a GJ, the case is almost certainly too weak to survive trial.

You are arguing with me, a random asshole on the internet, when you should be arguing with the DA and the grand jury, which did not find the evidence in the case gathered by a professional investigation team compelling enough to indict on.