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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (102153)4/5/2000 12:38:00 AM
From: SteveC  Read Replies (2) of 1570952
 
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"The whole justice system is a racket to separate people from their hard earned money."

I suppose trial lawyers are also responsible for El Nino, athlete's foot and road rage. Have you considered that most trial lawyers in U.S. are actually working for one corporation that is suing another corporation? That is the defining characteristic of patent, copyright and commercial litigation. Consumer class actions, while they grab the headlines, are a much smaller percentage of suits.

And what hard earned money are we talking about? Take one of the biggest judgment in U.S. history against a corporation -- the $5 billion judgment against Exxon for the Valdez oil spill. The jury award was largely for fishermen and other small businessmen whose livelihoods were destroyed by the spill. They and their families lost their hard earned money because Exxon allowed a drunk to operate one the world's biggest oil tankers.
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