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Re:I am an Uber survivor by DannyBee on Monday February 27, 2017 @10:01PM (#13750776)
"Why is this being modded down? It's the truth. Big companies almost always come out on top in trials because they can afford the best lawyers, and they can afford to game the system to bankrupt their opponents by filing never-ending motions to delay and other tactics which increase the legal costs to the opponent. You're almost never going to get a positive result if you're a rank-and-file employee; your best course of action is to leave the company and find something better. "

You claim this is the truth. On what do you base any of this, other than TV?

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Re:I am an Uber survivor by roystonvassey on Monday February 27, 2017 @11:08PM (#13751081)
It probably is quite different in the States but in my country, this is very true. If you are a lone individual fighting a legal case against a large organization, chances are you will be worn down by years of litigation that often appears endless. To dissuade litigants even further, cases are filed in far-off remote outposts that make such endeavors cost-prohibitive even further [1, for e.g.].

[1] http://www.livemint.com/Specials/13TE2UEtexMf1GDeEt5rCP/Mahe...

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Re:I am an Uber survivor by balladeer on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @07:03AM (#13753118)
Add on top of this how easy it is to buy law enforcements here (including judges). It's like a very fair and open market. Whoever pays more gets the favour. That's exactly how he got that order passed in a district court (which is not even a high court - apex court of a state, let alone the Supreme Court - nation's apex court) by a judge who probably heard the word Internet for the sixth time in his entire life and the term "webpage" I am sure for the first time and was paid well for issuing the order.
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