Return-Path: Sender: "Marvin Kaye" To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:00:29 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from andromeda.email.starband.net ([148.78.247.124] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c2) with ESMTP id 751232 for lml@lancaironline.net; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:53:41 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=148.78.247.124; envelope-from=hwasti@starband.net Received: from starband.net (vsat-148-64-23-255.c050.t7.mrt.starband.net [148.64.23.255]) by andromeda.email.starband.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1KCqqcX013864 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:52:54 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <42188819.4020705@starband.net> X-Original-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:52:41 -0800 From: "Hamid A. Wasti" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List Subject: Re: [LML] Lycoming's Future? References: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/130/Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 clamav-milter version 0.80j on andromeda X-Virus-Status: Clean Gary Rodgers wrote:

But this may be a legitimate claim.

I never said that this was an illegitimate claim or that the jury verdict was incorrect. It may well be correct -- just like a broken clock shows the correct time twice a day.

My point was that the issues at trial here are very complex engineering questions with no clear cut answers. Maybe a group of smart engineers with a background in the relevant areas could hear what experts with competing opinions (and competing financial interests) have to say and make their own judgment based on their technical knowledge. However, I do not trust juries of lay people to make such judgments. Someone with no technical background can be very easily bamboozled by irrelevant data, or data that appeals to their "common sense" while actually supporting exactly the opposite conclusion than what the application of common sense would suggest.

Hamid