• What is a... transit agency?

    From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Thu Jan 15 13:34:33 2026
    Nothing is obvious anymore!

    There is a doctrine of interstate sovereign immunity. When New Jersey
    Transit, a state agency, operates buses in Pennsylvania and New York
    that get into accidents, does it retain sovereign immunity or must it be treated as a business for the purpose of a P.I. lawsuit?

    Is it self identifying to cheat justice?

    https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/justices-wrestle-with-what-exactly-new-jersey-transit-is/

    This amused me.

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  • From Rhino@3:633/10 to All on Thu Jan 15 12:11:10 2026
    On 2026-01-15 8:34 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Nothing is obvious anymore!

    There is a doctrine of interstate sovereign immunity. When New Jersey Transit, a state agency, operates buses in Pennsylvania and New York
    that get into accidents, does it retain sovereign immunity or must it be treated as a business for the purpose of a P.I. lawsuit?

    Is it self identifying to cheat justice?

    https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/justices-wrestle-with-what-exactly-new-jersey-transit-is/

    This amused me.

    Definitions are foundational to understanding pretty much everything.

    Did you know that the discovery of vacuum caused a huge religious
    controversy? Vacuum was described by the scientists as the absence of absolutely everything. The clergy were horrified and insisted God was everywhere so the concept of vacuum was essentially heresy by its very definition.

    That's why I - sort of - sympathize with Ketanji-Jackson in her
    reluctance to answer the question "what is a woman?": she'd be doing the equivalent of judging an issue before she'd heard the arguments. Then
    again, the answer *does* seem blindingly obvious just as it is
    blindingly obvious that the Senator who asked the question thought he'd
    found the ultimate gotcha to torpedo her nomination.

    I don't expect the definition of a transit agency to be QUITE as
    controversial though ;-)

    --
    Rhino

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Thu Jan 15 17:51:47 2026
    Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
    On 2026-01-15 8:34 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Nothing is obvious anymore!

    There is a doctrine of interstate sovereign immunity. When New Jersey >>Transit, a state agency, operates buses in Pennsylvania and New York
    that get into accidents, does it retain sovereign immunity or must it be >>treated as a business for the purpose of a P.I. lawsuit?

    Is it self identifying to cheat justice?

    https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/justices-wrestle-with-what-exactly-new-jersey-transit-is/

    This amused me.

    Definitions are foundational to understanding pretty much everything.

    Did you know that the discovery of vacuum caused a huge religious >controversy? Vacuum was described by the scientists as the absence of >absolutely everything. The clergy were horrified and insisted God was >everywhere so the concept of vacuum was essentially heresy by its very >definition.

    Eh. Thomas Aquinas philosophised about the space-time continuum; the
    universe was created for us to exist in. Since when is God material?

    That's why I - sort of - sympathize with Ketanji-Jackson in her
    reluctance to answer the question "what is a woman?": she'd be doing the >equivalent of judging an issue before she'd heard the arguments. Then
    again, the answer *does* seem blindingly obvious just as it is
    blindingly obvious that the Senator who asked the question thought he'd >found the ultimate gotcha to torpedo her nomination.

    I don't expect the definition of a transit agency to be QUITE as >controversial though ;-)

    The legal opinion in this case will determine billable hours for P.I.
    work. Nothing is more controversial in the law.

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Thu Jan 15 20:16:07 2026
    On Jan 15, 2026 at 9:11:10 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

    On 2026-01-15 8:34 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Nothing is obvious anymore!

    There is a doctrine of interstate sovereign immunity. When New Jersey
    Transit, a state agency, operates buses in Pennsylvania and New York
    that get into accidents, does it retain sovereign immunity or must it be
    treated as a business for the purpose of a P.I. lawsuit?

    Is it self identifying to cheat justice?


    https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/justices-wrestle-with-what-exactly-new-jersey-transit-is/

    This amused me.

    Definitions are foundational to understanding pretty much everything.

    Did you know that the discovery of vacuum caused a huge religious controversy? Vacuum was described by the scientists as the absence of absolutely everything. The clergy were horrified and insisted God was everywhere so the concept of vacuum was essentially heresy by its very definition.

    Imagine how they would have felt about the concept that nothing exists beyond the limit of the expanding universe, not even space itself.



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  • From Adam H. Kerman@3:633/10 to All on Thu Jan 15 20:32:55 2026
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jan 15, 2026 at 9:11:10 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> >wrote:

    On 2026-01-15 8:34 a.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    Nothing is obvious anymore!

    There is a doctrine of interstate sovereign immunity. When New Jersey
    Transit, a state agency, operates buses in Pennsylvania and New York
    that get into accidents, does it retain sovereign immunity or must it be >>> treated as a business for the purpose of a P.I. lawsuit?

    Is it self identifying to cheat justice?


    https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/justices-wrestle-with-what-exactly-new-jersey-transit-is/

    This amused me.

    Definitions are foundational to understanding pretty much everything.

    Did you know that the discovery of vacuum caused a huge religious
    controversy? Vacuum was described by the scientists as the absence of
    absolutely everything. The clergy were horrified and insisted God was
    everywhere so the concept of vacuum was essentially heresy by its very
    definition.

    Imagine how they would have felt about the concept that nothing exists beyond >the limit of the expanding universe, not even space itself.

    What's beyond the galactic rim? A big honkin' Taco Bell.
    -- J. Michael Straczynski

    Yes, not beyond the universe, but it's all the improperly disposed of
    trash from said Taco Bell.

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