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They already won a $289 million judgment in California and were threatening to leverage that result into more lawsuits. I imagine that because their the CA cas
by pnw_hazor 6y ago
They already won a $289 million judgment in California and were threatening to leverage that result into more lawsuits.
I imagine that because their the CA case had some unusual facts, they must have thought it would be easier to switch-sides for a small fee rather than trying to catch lightning in a bottle again.
- zenexer 6y agoIt’s hard to be sure, but it sounds like they were lower-level lawyers at the firm that won the Johnson case and wouldn’t have directly benefited monetarily from winning additional cases. Seemingly, they were offering to ruin the case by deliberately botching the tasks that their firm assigned to them, presumably without the firm’s knowledge.