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> That was litigated in Pennsylvania, and when it got to the level that Amazon was looking at a major lose, Amazon settled to avoid a precedent. That seems lik
by Nextgrid 3y ago
> That was litigated in Pennsylvania, and when it got to the level that Amazon was looking at a major lose, Amazon settled to avoid a precedent.
That seems like a problem in our legal system though. It basically means you can force your opponent through a long & expensive legal process (hoping they'd give up or run out of resources in the meantime) and still not risk anything yourself as you can abort the whole thing the second the tide starts turning against you.
- Majromax 3y ago> That seems like a problem in our legal system though. The civil legal system is designed to settle essentially private disputes between parties. It is not really a matter of public interest whether my neighbour or I bear the liability for the tree branch that hits my parked car during a storm. Your discomfort arises because the actions of large companies are matters of public interest, such that a notionally 'private' dispute can still affect hundreds of thousands of people. Class-action lawsuits are one way to shoehorn this sort of dispute into the court system, but the other way is regulation. Depending on the framework, regulators can issue orders themselves or bring court cases for the sake of public interest. Unfortunately, good, timely, and competent regulation is its own hard problem.