Is the law just? Well you can't even get your appeal heard!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080108/od_afp/usjusticeoffbeat;_ylt=AqlLSNVIvITg04JUCAj5xWUuQE4F
For the man in the article, he may have won the girl, but at a hefty price.
Can you really charge a man with wooing a woman away from her husband? Another civil liberties violation?... How can there be a law against human nature? The convicted man is being forced to pay his wife's ex-husband $750,000 because she got pregnant and left her husband for him. For me, the most shocking part of the article was the following:
"But armed with the admission of adultery, betrayed ex-husband Johnny Valentine decided to sue Fitch, based on an antiquated Mississippi state law permitting a cuckolded spouse to seek damages for "loss of society, companionship, love and affection," as well as "the loss of sexual relations."
About a half dozen US states have similar "alienation of affection" laws on the book.
The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld a jury verdict awarding some 750,000 dollars to Valentine."
Six states have thisw law??? In my opinion, it's not even Constitutional. What do you think?
Stephanie
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