BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky judge has denied a request for a new trial from a man who a jury said should pay more than $580,000 to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul for injuries Paul suffered when he was tackled by the man.
The Daily News of Bowling Green reports Special Judge Tyler Gill rejected a motion Thursday from Rene Boucher’s lawyer and said the jury award wasn’t excessive considering Boucher’s conduct and Paul’s injuries.
Gill presided over a civil trial between the two neighbors in January in Bowling Green.
The Republican senator suffered multiple broken ribs and contracted pneumonia after being tackled in his yard in 2017.
Gill also rejected arguments that Paul tried to provoke Boucher over yard waste and that Paul failed to quantify the amount of damages he sought.
Announce he’s running against Rand for senator, collect millions, no worries.
I have no idea of the ‘rationality’ of these damages seems like a lot but I don’t get why the neighbor did not sue Paul in the first place, it seemed like he had a beef but never pursued it until he was just FURIOUS.
So yeah, the guy is to blame but I don’t get that amount.
It’s like the huge settlement Hulk Hogan got over his ‘reputation’ (like, WHAT REPUTATION, you know?) which was just a way to crush somebody.
This pisses me off for so many reasons, the worst of which is that Paul has spent his career trying to keep the average citizen from getting these kinds of judgments against big companies. It’s just another example of his extreme hypocrisy. I’m also fairly certain that if this were the average person suing a neighbor who’d done the same for even lesser reasons they could expect a whole lot less. It’s all very gross.
Maybe now Rand Paul can afford to buy working toilets for his house:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6psADVKIDEYAlso some black market 100 watt incandescent bulbs and a seventies model refrigerator that makes his electric meter go around faster.
Judges routinely reduce these awards on appeal.