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This happened in 2019. The wheels of justice turn very slowly.
by rappatic 8mo ago
This happened in 2019. The wheels of justice turn very slowly.
- lazide 8mo agoJustice delayed is justice denied.
- ddtaylor 8mo agoTwo people for six years in that industry they probably lost a lot more than $600k.
- IshKebab 8mo agoI doubt they were out of work for that whole time.
- tptacek 8mo agoThey were held for a total of 20 hours.
- rockskon 8mo agoNot relevant to the reputational damage which is particularly punishing in their line of work.
- Scoundreller 8mo agoI wonder how much stigma contractors carry for being successful at filing lawsuits, no matter how legitimate the claim.
- tptacek 8mo agoWhat reputational damage?
- sudobash1 8mo agoParticularly not with the free advertising they got from this.
- otikik 8mo agoExcept for the wealthy, who can dial it up or down
- tptacek 8mo agoCertainly the wheels of civil suits do.
- giantg2 8mo agoMy state, like many, defines a speedy criminal trail as the trial commencing any time within 5 years of being charged...
- dmix 8mo agoIn Canada there was a big court case in 2016 over the civil right of "right to a speedy trial" where the courts said it had to be within 18 months for charges in provincial courts, which is where most crime ends up. During COVID there was a giant backlog of trials created and a criminal lawyer I know told me half of her clients in recent years got their cases stayed (thrown out) because of this backlog. This apparently happened all over the country and included tons people who were charged for violent crimes. https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/16057/index.do https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/16057/i...
- Scoundreller 8mo agoOnly applies when it’s the state vs you. Whether a crime or a parking ticket (the real kind, not the extrajudicial “administrative penalties” they’re all moving to) If you want to sue someone in Canada, it can still take years.
- giantg2 8mo agoI'd call that working as intended. The government is the one who shut down the courts. They could have implemented safety precautions and staffed up to handle the backlog.
- dmix 8mo agoAgreed, but it is not a well known fact sadly.
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- giantg2 8mo agoWhen they turn this slowly it's disingenuous to call it justice. Spending 10% of your adult life locked in legal battles is a ridiculous price to pay for something that should be resolved in under a year.
- tptacek 8mo agoThey weren't "locked in a legal battle". Their criminal charges were dismissed within 6 months of the incident happening. What resolved recently was a civil suit they themselves brought for damages from defamation and emotional distress.
- giantg2 8mo agoYes, civil suits are also legal battles. There's no reason it should have taken more than a year to resolve. By the way, I dont know who you are quoting as that is not my exact wording.
- tptacek 8mo agoI think this is the kind of thing that sounds reasonable until the first time you've sued someone. Resolution in one year? Don't even fantasize about it.
- defrost 8mo ago"We" (here in W.Australia) got sued by a US company for doing math once - took six years of legal back and forth to "win", eight years out of people's lives from disruption, and essentially destroyed a company that innovated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LizardTech,_Inc._v._Earth_Resource_Mapping,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LizardTech,_Inc._v._Earth_Reso....
- tptacek 8mo agoI don't think these are crazy timelines for civil litigation here. I mean, is it worth criticizing? I guess, sure. But: civil suits take for-ev-er. A case is an indeterminate but fairly large number of steps, each of which includes 1d8+4 month next check-in date.