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See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42601569 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42601569 Specifically this subthread: https://news.ycombi
by lotsofpulp 2y ago
See this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42601569 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42601569
Specifically this subthread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612782
Of course, all those comments could be fake, as could mine, but if you have any experience with the courts in the US, then you know going to trial means a lot of uncertainty.
- drawkward 2y agoIn the context of this discussion, i suspect a good lawyer could say: look at the correlation between avian influenza and the price increases... Unless there were evidence that would come out in discovery that in fact there was price gouging going on.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoI would hope even a bad lawyer (or a non lawyer such as a random HN commenter) could make the case that, absent evidence of illegal behavior, one should assume prices change due to shifting supply and demand curves.
- drawkward 2y agoMy evidence is the settlement. A settlement is not evidence of absence. On the contrary, a settlement suggests just the opposite.
- freejazz 2y ago>Of course, all those comments could be fake, as could mine, but if you have any experience with the courts in the US, then you know going to trial means a lot of uncertainty. I'm an attorney, I stand by exactly what I said. You pointing out there is uncertainty doesn't change my point at all. The majority of the uncertainty is the extent of the risk faced by the corp for its bad deeds. Don't be too obtuse.