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>And this giant market, of course, lives almost entirely outside the civil justice system or any other mechanism for peaceful resolution of disputes. It's not
by Arizhel 10y ago
>And this giant market, of course, lives almost entirely outside the civil justice system or any other mechanism for peaceful resolution of disputes.
It's not just people in the drug trade who don't have access to the civil justice system for peaceful resolution of disputes; anyone who's lower than upper-middle-class is priced out of the justice system by the insanely high fees and lawyer costs involved.
- bitwize 10y agoThat's why small-claims court exists. You don't need a lawyer and in some places are forbidden from retaining one to sue or defend yourself in such a court. The drawback is that there's a cap on actual damages in order for small-claims court to have jurisdiction, but most disputes between individuals are likely to fall well under that cap.