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Could we create a service that automates most of the work required to sue in SCC?
by mlrtime 9y ago
Could we create a service that automates most of the work required to sue in SCC?
- X86BSD 9y agoWhy not? Wouldn't it be the same as the kid that automated fighting a speeding ticket or traffic infraction ticket?
- pc86 9y agoTraffic tickets aren't generally resolved in SCC. Traffic tickets are very specific. As the actual attorney pointed out, if you make a generic "file a SCC claim here" app its resultant documents will be pretty quickly discarded as insufficient. SCC is not hard, it's cheap, and it's designed to be easy to do and not require legal assistance to do so.
- leesalminen 9y agoI'd pay $20 for a service that can walk me through what to do/say, templates legal forms, etc. I would absolutely take the time to sue Equifax in small claims court.
- fillskills 9y agoI would pay 20% of every penny that I win in the lawsuit
- esMazer 9y agosame here, heck I'd pay $99
- Veratyr 9y agoCalifornia has a convenient free web page that tells you most of the steps: http://www.courts.ca.gov/1007.htm http://www.courts.ca.gov/1007.htm This has all the forms and a link to what to do with them: http://www.courts.ca.gov/9744.htm http://www.courts.ca.gov/9744.htm
- ethanwillis 9y agoI will also crowdfund taking down EQ. Give me a service and I'm ready to pay.
- kelvintran 9y agoAm an attorney. You could create a system that'd help you file SCC complaints quickly, but to have it detailed enough to pass the defendant lawyer's complaints about the deficiencies in your documents would be difficult. The size of that problem, however, decreases with the narrowness of the subject matter you want to cover/make claims about. If it were a 'Sue Equifax For The 2017 Data Breach' service, then it might work (the whole point about class actions being that they're similar - commonality, typicality etc - enough)
- DenisM 9y agoIt's small claims we're talking about, the defendant will not have a lawyer, right?
- pc86 9y agoIf you sue a corporation, who do you expect to defend it? It will be an attorney.
- rrix2 9y agoI think the point of doing this in SCC is that the cost of defending against small-claims is usually greater than the cost of just settling the SCC. Lawyers aren't cheap, and folks going to SCC are banking on them being more expensive than their claim.
- ars 9y agoActually, at least where I live the law is that it can not be an attorney. It must be a regular staff member or manager. I did not check how many states have a law like that.
- apayan 9y agoI don't know about other states, but in California if you sue a corporation in small claims court, they can NOT send an attorney: Corporation or other legal entity — A corporation or other legal entity (that is not a natural person) can be represented by a regular employee, an officer, or a director; a partnership can be represented by a partner or regular employee of the partnership. The representative may not be an attorney or person whose only job is to represent the party in small claims court. An attorney may appear to represent a law firms as long as that attorney is a general partner of the law firm or is an officer of the corporation. However, in both instances, all the other members of the partnership and all the other officers of the corporations have to be attorneys as well.[1] [1] http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/small_claims/basic_info.shtml http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/small_claims/basic_info.s...