Re:Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its s...
by coldtea on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:55PM
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>I wonder if theres any danger of walmart being declared a vexatious litigant, since this amount is clearly nonsense.
What amount sounds like nonsense? I'd sue someone if they stole $100 from me, or sold me $100 of bad goods and wont do anything about it, even if I make 200K!
And what part of "fires at stores" (regardless of amount) sounds comforting, legal, and acceptable?
Re:Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its s...
by porknubbins on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:31PM
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I don’t know what the standards are for that but pretty much zero chance. First their shit burned up on your roof, thats a pretty solid prima facie reason to sue IMO, even if you later lose. Second 100k+ is not nothing, federal jurisdiction only requires 75k and to my knowledge there isn’t any kind of test of the money of the plaintiff as to whether the amount matters to them.
Re:Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its s...
by egdod on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:29PM
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That's not what a vexatious litigant is. Hundreds of thousands of dollars is a real loss.
Re:Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its s...
by kryogen1c on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:44PM
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Is it? Wal-Mart's revenue is 500billion. 500 thosand is .0001%. If you make 200k, thats like suing someone over 20 bucks
Re:Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its s...
by egdod on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:45PM
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Totally, like why does Wal-Mart even bother selling items that cost less than a million dollars?
Re:Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its s...
by kryogen1c on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:09PM
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This lawsuit could drag on for years and cost a significant portion of the amount being sued over because the value is so small. Hardly an equivalence.
Re:Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its s...
by egdod on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:52PM
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Tons of lawsuits are brought for under 100k. This argument applies to all of them. The fact that Wal-Mart is a big company doesn't change anything.
Re:Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its s...
by MertsA on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @01:06AM
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Especially Walmart, which routinely prosecutes shoplifters even over trivial amounts to curb theft.
Re:Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its s...
by function_seven on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:44PM
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The alternative is that Wal-Mart establishes a policy of allowing vendors to damage them for 6-figure amounts with little consequence. That’s probably not the right strategy. Kind of like Newegg spending more defending patent lawsuits than settling with the trolls. (Do they still do that?)
Re:Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its s...
by coldtea on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:56PM
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$20 bucks, and the fact that he sold you something as safe, that can burn down your business and kill people...
Re:Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its s...
by vageli on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:48AM
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> Is it? Wal-Mart's revenue is 500billion. 500 thosand is .0001%. If you make 200k, thats like suing someone over 20 bucks
So we just accept violations of the law because of some arbitrary scale you made up? Can you cite any laws that grant amnesty for thefts _under_ a certain dollar amount?
As is probably obvious to those with any legal knowledge, IANAL