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Things like this show there really should be a significant cost to wasting the courts time and that it simply doesn't exist right now.
by BelenusMordred 5y ago
Things like this show there really should be a significant cost to wasting the courts time and that it simply doesn't exist right now.
- medstrom 5y agoLet's be clear that there is, for individuals. For firms maybe not, but they could also rely on just never going to court - because it costs too much for who would take them to court.
- JI00912 5y agoThe costs are the same for companies. Large companies like rich individuals do OK, small companies and poor people go under. It's pay to win.
- Hamuko 5y agoIn sensible places, they'd at least be on the hook for both sides' legal fees.
- astrange 5y agoThey are in the US. Not that you need a lawyer to file a counter claim.
- willyt 5y agoIn Britain there’s the concept of a ‘vexatious litigant’ a person or other entity who makes frivolous legal actions for purposes other than seeking redress for a wrong that has been done to them. You can be put on a register which makes it much harder to bring legal actions in future. There is a broad civil law legal principle that damages paid to you should put you back to where you started before the bad thing happened. So you can’t take out a legal action to get revenge on someone or to frighten them. This is also why we don’t have punitive damages here.