4 ms·
When 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 someth
by giantg2 9mo ago
When 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 9mo 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 9mo 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 9mo 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 9mo 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 9mo 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.
- defrost 9mo agoI'm not disagreeing on the time frame, just bitching about the impact and the cold truth that often no one wins (save for lawyers).
- tptacek 9mo agoNo, of course, believe me I understand viscerally.
- ryandrake 9mo agoI'd like to see an hour-by-hour breakdown of what labor is actually being done, by which judges, lawyers and clerks, during the course of a 6 year trial, and see how much it adds up to. I wonder if it would even amount to a single, cumulative person-month of work?
- tptacek 9mo agoI assure you they are doing a shitload of work. They're just not doing it on your case.
- giantg2 9mo agoThe cases to judge and cases to lawyer (government side anyways) is extremely high. I think this is actually a negative a creates waste through context switching with all the delays. Nobody wants to pay to appropriately staff the court system. And frankly they waste money on fancy ornate buildings when they could make them much more plain and efficient.