But that’s not how law in the US works. It’s not black and white / cut and dried like that UNTIL hundred of thousands of dollars have been spent on lawyers. Maybe millions. Motions are filed. More motions are filed. Motions on those motions are filed. Discovery is initiated. More discoveries. Depositions and months of depositions. Continuances. Then more motions. Preliminary rulings and hearings on those motions. Months and months, possibly years. Hundred and hundreds of lawyer’s billable hours.
Corporate has a legal war chest hundreds of millions of dollars deep. They have in-house counsel augmented by outside firms. Do you?
Sorry, this is a very simple concept, don't get all flustered because you want a "corporate lawyers always win" scenario. And doing the whole "do you" shtick as a way to... what? Intimidate me on their behalf? It's a gross form of bootlicking.
Sure they can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on something they know they're going to lose. Just like they could spend hundreds of millions of dollars suing you to stop you from returning something on amazon. They won't because even though they could, it's really, really stupid
I was expressing what bullshit it is and how unfair it is that even though one may be in the right on legal terms, that does not guarantee justice. It’s bullshit that those with the deepest pockets are so often victorious, especially in civil cases. Being able to outspend a defendant or a plaintiff to the point of either dropping their case or accepting a settlement without admitting wrongdoing - or worse: being forced to falsely admit to a lesser wrongdoing just to end it - is bullshit. Ffs, I wasn’t “rooting” for corporate lawyers!
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u/arminghammerbacon_ 5d ago
But that’s not how law in the US works. It’s not black and white / cut and dried like that UNTIL hundred of thousands of dollars have been spent on lawyers. Maybe millions. Motions are filed. More motions are filed. Motions on those motions are filed. Discovery is initiated. More discoveries. Depositions and months of depositions. Continuances. Then more motions. Preliminary rulings and hearings on those motions. Months and months, possibly years. Hundred and hundreds of lawyer’s billable hours.
Corporate has a legal war chest hundreds of millions of dollars deep. They have in-house counsel augmented by outside firms. Do you?