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"rules make it a snap, and potentially quite lucrative, for people to file civil lawsuits" "One suit against us, a proposed class action, came from an elderly

• rquantz 14y ago
  And his proposed remedy, to make the loser of a suit pay all the costs, would make it effectively impossible for an individual to ever sue a large corporation.
• AnthonyMouse 14y ago
  >Seems like I'm in the minority on this, but I'm always amazed by the rage some people have for other people using the courts to redress wrongs. Call me naive, but the U.S. justice system is for all Americans, not just for the rich and powerful. The trouble is that the court system has ceased to be a forum in which it is cost-effective to obtain justice for ordinary people. If you're a small business, anyone can file a lawsuit against you for millions of dollars using lawyers working for "free" on contingency that they get a large chunk of the judgment if they win, and the cost of defending against that lawsuit in court even if it's totally without merit is enough to bankrupt the large majority of small businesses. Which converts the primary consequence of filing a lawsuit from "redress grievances" to "impose large unrecoverable costs on ultimately victorious defendants" and makes unjust settlement of specious claims the norm since it costs less than fighting them. That said, the jackass in this particular instance got only a part of what was coming to him and no one should have any sympathy for him.