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Wait, why is your court date ten YEARS after the offense? Did you file suit 10 years ago and not get a court date until just now?
by 55555 8y ago
Wait, why is your court date ten YEARS after the offense? Did you file suit 10 years ago and not get a court date until just now?
- lowercased 8y agoFiled august 2008. This case isn't in michigan, but an attorney friend of mine in michigan said "if this case was in michigan, you'd be at least 5 years waiting". This is in NYC - even longer. The company filed against is no longer in business, so I'm not even sure what to do at this point. It was a small individual LLC, may not be anything to do, but he was so shitty about it - couldn't pay me, but screwed over multiple other contractors I found out about around the same time, I drove up to NYC and filed a lawsuit. I didn't think it would take an entire 10 years to get a court date.
- badpun 8y ago10 years to get a court date in the US? Is this common?
- lowercased 8y agoagain, per my comment re: michigan attorney, he'd indicated it might be a 4-5 year wait, as things were backed up there. NYC seemed to be 10 years. but i don't know how common it is. I've had people say "you should have gone to small claims court!" Except, the claim exceeded small claims limit ($5k). Perhaps I could have rounded it down and tried for small claims, which supposedly is somewhat faster, but how do you know ahead of time this will take 10 years to even appear in court?
- notatcomputer68 8y agoThat's so dysfunctional I bet it pushes a lot of people to ask the mob for help with collecting.
- warent 8y agoNot for me. I had a small claims case in San Francisco with a court date set about a month from when I first filed, and the entire thing was resolved in less than a year.
- dragonwriter 8y agoSmall claims is often much faster than regular court (that's one of the reasons it exists.)