Is anyone else sick of seeing eight, nine, and ten figure settlements accompanied with statements strongly denying any wrongdoing?
One has to love how a corporation can use its considerable financial muscle to file intimidation lawsuits against nuisance individuals, forcing people who do not have the funds to defend themselves against a large multinational to settle on terms which are favorable to said multinational (kind of like how Monsanto wages legal war against competitors like individual seed cleansers).
But when the company does wrong they can just throw money at the problem until they get a signed document stating that they didn’t do anything wrong (but despite “not doing wrong” they’re gonna pay out a couple billion in penalties!).
Our system of justice has devolved to the point where each party piles money on lady liberty’s scales. Whoever has more money to pay for endless appeals and experts, wins.
Great response Matt. This should give everyone something to think about. Unfortunately our government likes the big businesses that can intimidate you and I, yet have unlimited funds to defend itself (thanks to our government).
In my opinion, these class action lawsuits are a scam- it seems the only ones who really benefit are the attorneys. I’ve heard the payouts to the writers are very small and also read that the studios cannot be sued again in the future if they don’t hire older writers which doesn’t seem to help writers in the future. In class action lawsuits, the attorney’s get a substantial chunk of the settlement and plaintiffs can’t even opt out before they see what they are going to get. So they might be signing their rights away for a few dollars and not be able to do anything about it once they learn this. It seems like the lawyers sit down and negotiate a sum where they get paid well then give the defendents protection in exchange. And the government just sits by and yawns, allowing this to happen. It’s unbelievable.
Is anyone else sick of seeing eight, nine, and ten figure settlements accompanied with statements strongly denying any wrongdoing?
One has to love how a corporation can use its considerable financial muscle to file intimidation lawsuits against nuisance individuals, forcing people who do not have the funds to defend themselves against a large multinational to settle on terms which are favorable to said multinational (kind of like how Monsanto wages legal war against competitors like individual seed cleansers).
But when the company does wrong they can just throw money at the problem until they get a signed document stating that they didn’t do anything wrong (but despite “not doing wrong” they’re gonna pay out a couple billion in penalties!).
Our system of justice has devolved to the point where each party piles money on lady liberty’s scales. Whoever has more money to pay for endless appeals and experts, wins.
Great response Matt. This should give everyone something to think about. Unfortunately our government likes the big businesses that can intimidate you and I, yet have unlimited funds to defend itself (thanks to our government).
In my opinion, these class action lawsuits are a scam- it seems the only ones who really benefit are the attorneys. I’ve heard the payouts to the writers are very small and also read that the studios cannot be sued again in the future if they don’t hire older writers which doesn’t seem to help writers in the future. In class action lawsuits, the attorney’s get a substantial chunk of the settlement and plaintiffs can’t even opt out before they see what they are going to get. So they might be signing their rights away for a few dollars and not be able to do anything about it once they learn this. It seems like the lawyers sit down and negotiate a sum where they get paid well then give the defendents protection in exchange. And the government just sits by and yawns, allowing this to happen. It’s unbelievable.