Still others, mostly first year students, work on the victims friends, betraying a complete misunderstanding of the concept of loss of consortium. No one stops them. In fact, one tort professor from BC actually encourages them, mouthing off some drivel about a logical extension of existing legal principles and a case of first impression. A small group of students stop what they re doing to take notes, and a few raise their hands because they ve heard that class participation counts toward the final grade. Pandemonium takes over.
Fights break out.
Jury consultants fly in from San Diego. Others hang glide from Minneapolis. Platoons of personal injury lawyers from points as far as Anchorage and Honolulu airdrop onto the field, a few plummeting to their deaths when their parachutes fail to open. The crowd cheers those who don t make it, and disembowel those who do. Torn Federal Supplement pages litter the air like somber confetti.