My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won

Re:My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won by danielvinson on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:04PM (#14607396)

IANAL, but he should have revised his damages for the second case to account for his expenses, including time. He probably could have won closer to $6000 without a problem.

The author comes off as deeply uninformed about how legal proceedings in the U.S. work, for example talking about how he had to refute arguments in court and such, which is just not how things work at all at that level. Some basic Googleing would have taught him all he needed to know about defending himself in small claims court without stress.

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Re:My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won by erroneousfunk on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:47PM (#14607796)

You can't usually get your own time costs back. Even suing for real actual legal fees (that you can document, such as payments to lawyers) is tricky and usually demands that an existing contract is in place to enforce this, or that the suit is frivolous, and a judge has to rule on the frivolity.

You can't just go to small claims court and say "I make $50/hr, and I've spent 20 hours on this, so I also demand an extra $1000"

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Re:My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won by danielvinson on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:30PM (#14608514)

This heavily depends on the judge, which court, and where. All of my cases which have been heard by a court I've been awarded money for my time.

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