Re:Winning the Blackbird Battle
by rossdavidh on Thursday February 14, 2019 @06:53PM
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...and yet, as I understand it, other countries just don't have this problem, not at anything like this scale, anyway. It cannot be the case that a fix is impossible, and yet every other country on earth has managed to fix it. We have to be doing something wrong.
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...and this is the obvious difference that seems reasonable to blame, yes - if frivolous lawsuit is low-risk, low-expense action, why not do it.
In reality, looser-pays is usually more subtle, the winner is typically awarded only some standard rate that good lawyers don’t charge, but it seems sufficient for deterrence nonetheless.