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Re:Chatbot lets you print lawsuit forms for suing Equifax fo... by ransom1538 on Monday September 11, 2017 @09:37PM (#15224090)
US Judges are pretty ruthless too, esp. in their own courtroom -- if they see this is just a spam law suite / mocking the courtroom I wouldn't be surprised to see people getting tossed into contempt. If they feel like the courts' time is being wasted they get really pissed. Don't mess with judges. [i][ii]

[i] http://www.gainesville.com/news/20170227/gainesville-man-get...

[ii] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssujwibxOlA

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Re:Chatbot lets you print lawsuit forms for suing Equifax fo... by throwawayjava on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:00PM (#15224178)
I mean, it sounds like he was trying help intimidate already fidgety witnesses. That's not just wasting the court's time.
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Re:Chatbot lets you print lawsuit forms for suing Equifax fo... by foota on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:28PM (#15224282)
What? I don't have context for what else has occurred, but it sounds like the lawyer in this case was objecting to the bond that the judge put on his client?
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Re:Chatbot lets you print lawsuit forms for suing Equifax fo... by throwawayjava on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @12:35AM (#15224838)
Person A was on trial for (attempted?) murder. Person B posts to InstaFaceGram that Person A will be free soon. Person B then shows up to court and starts live-streaming the court proceedings, included of witnesses, to a sketch-sounding Facebook group.

Person B then lies to judge about what he was doing and so the judge throws him in jail for 6 months for contempt.

The probable witness tampering probably had something to do with the harsh contempt punishment.

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Re:Chatbot lets you print lawsuit forms for suing Equifax fo... by foota on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @01:30AM (#15225020)
Ohhhhh. I see where I was wrong. I had only watched the second reference in op's post. Thank you for explaining.
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Re:Chatbot lets you print lawsuit forms for suing Equifax fo... by pooloo1 on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:38PM (#15224344)
Would it really be the people getting on the judges nerves or the corporation at fault?
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Re:Chatbot lets you print lawsuit forms for suing Equifax fo... by jlgaddis on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:34PM (#15224625)
Even if a judge decided your lawsuit was completely frivolous, I'm pretty sure most would just throw it out -- not throw you in jail for contempt. Now, if you filed dozens of similar frivolous lawsuits in the same court...
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