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Costs, start there. In Rome, you'd have a better chance to seek justice if poor (if a citizen, and most people weren't.) But you'd have been better off decades
by Nomentatus 9y ago
Costs, start there. In Rome, you'd have a better chance to seek justice if poor (if a citizen, and most people weren't.) But you'd have been better off decades ago as what counts as "small claims" has been totally trashed by inflation.
- torstenvl 9y agoThe most readily available state historical summary of small claims limits I could find is from CT, where the 1981 limit was $1,000 (approx. $2,623 in 2017 dollars) and is now $5,000. https://www.cga.ct.gov/2017/rpt/pdf/2017-R-0166.pdf https://www.cga.ct.gov/2017/rpt/pdf/2017-R-0166.pdf In California, the small claims limit was set at $7,500 in 2005 (approx. $9,695 in 2017 dollars) and is now $10,000. http://www.personalinjury-attorney.com/california-small-claims-court-limits-rise-to-10000/ http://www.personalinjury-attorney.com/california-small-clai... Is there a jurisdiction you have in mind where the small claims limits increases have been outstripped by inflation?
- Nomentatus 9y agoYou're right, I don't live there.
- vanderZwan 9y ago> In Rome, you'd have a better chance to seek justice if poor (if a citizen, and most people weren't.) Maybe I misunderstand what you are trying to say, but isn't that's equivalent to "before women's suffrage, if you were a man..." or "before the civil rights movement, if you were white..."? I find it a bit hard to see how that is an argument suggesting that things used to be better? EDIT: Wait, was that your whole point? That a woman or an ethnic minority seeking justice was much worse of a few generations ago?