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> I also learned that our justice system, while slow and imperfect, does work. How does this follow, when this story clearly demonstrates that the average comp
by tripzilch 14y ago
> I also learned that our justice system, while slow and imperfect, does work.
How does this follow, when this story clearly demonstrates that the average company is not able to get their justice, unless they get VC funding for the lawsuit?
In my eyes, this demonstrates the exact opposite: In the US, most companies cannot afford to get justice when faced with a large corporation doing whatever it wants.
It's great that these guys got funding and did finally win in the end, but to me it underlines all the companies that probably do get screwed by large corporations because they cannot afford spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers.
What use is a confidentiality agreement if the only power it gives you is to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make the other party stop ignoring it?
In which case, some people might get the idea to come up with a whole lot more fun and creative ways to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to make Best Buy stop ignoring a contract. Now substitute "fun" with "quicker and more definitive", and you get something the justice system is supposed to prevent, and one of the reasons why it should not only function for those with sufficient wealth.
- saraid216 14y agoThe justice system is not supposed to be driven by the market. In theory, they could have done this entirely without paying any lawyers: I doubt the paperwork by itself would have cost too much for a normal company. In practice, the problem with the justice system is that it's too large to navigate without lawyers, and lawyers must be paid. That's an indictment of the market's inability to force lawyer fees down to a reasonable level, not the justice system.