Re: [Leica] Current Events

["James Harrison" <leica@wf.net>]

I was raised in Louisiana,(my grandmama DeBarbarius family left/were kicked
out of Marseilles in 1861, settled in the Quarter, in New Orleans).  May I
add that the French aren't really practicing what we call Civil Law, it is
as in Louisiana, "Napoleonic Code".  Close but not exactly the same.

 Jim Harrison
Wichita Falls TX
N 34.01.650
W98.29.990
- -----Original Message-----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, September 06, 1999 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Current Events


>At 03:12 PM 9/6/1999 -0700, Bryan Caldwell wrote:
>>At the CNN website you can read excerpts from the French Magistrate's
>>report. I won't re-copy them here because they are copywritten. However,
he
>>expressly found that the photographers did not resort to "ruse or
violence"
>>nor was there any failure to render assistance on the part of the
>>photographers.
>
>Bryan
>
>You are misreading the Decision, as did the American press.  The reason for
>these conclusions was a certitude that the government would be unable to
>prove these things.  It is different than in a Common Law system such as
>yours and mine.  This is sort of like a default judgement.
>
>Civil Law is quite a bit different from the Common Law.
>
>Marc
>
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
>