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Because only the rich are able to buy their way out of justice. No one wants to go to trial indeed.
by soraminazuki 2y ago
Because only the rich are able to buy their way out of justice. No one wants to go to trial indeed.
- paulddraper 2y agoBut $2.3M is the justice. (Unless it should be more, and then that DoJ will sue for the full amount.) Are you suggesting we ought to let overpaid lawyers battle it out, then get fined $2.3M?
- soraminazuki 2y agoI have a hard time convincing myself that evading jury trial "because of their technical and often abstract nature" of tech is justice.
- lsaferite 2y agoThey are 'avoiding' a a jury trial in lieu of a bench trial. The prosecution tried to pull a fast one to get a jury trial by bundling a charge with monetary damages. Google's lawyers simply paid the claimed damages (tripled by law) and interest to remove the forced jury trial component in lieu of a bench trial. Just to be clear, they are still going to trial for the antitrust charges.
- paulddraper 2y agoSorry... What is justice? Surely it's not paying overpriced layers to argue back and forth in a courtroom for years? That's just sometimes prerequisite to get to the actual justice.
- nozzlegear 2y agoI agree, but that’s not what happened here. Google was being sued for not paying that money; now they paid the money they owed, thus justice has been served.
- soraminazuki 2y agoGoogle was sued for anti-competitive practices, not for skipping for their bills. If you're claiming that justice has been served, could you also point us to any remedies that were taken for all the people they've wronged?
- lsaferite 2y agoThey are still going to trial for that though.
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- hierophantic 2y agoImagine actually reading the article before commenting.
- soraminazuki 2y agoImagine reading the title.