Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock
by Paul_S on Saturday September 10, 2022 @03:31AM
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The only people who win are the lawyers who pocket money from both sides. And then money the state has to pay also come from your pocket in the end. Brilliant system, isn't it?
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Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock
by azmodeus on Saturday September 10, 2022 @04:49AM
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Well it's a last resort but pretty effective due to bad PR and costs
Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock
by mike50 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @09:28AM
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The people who oppose development thrive on what normal people consider bad PR.
Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock
by mistrial9 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:21PM
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many attorneys are part of some company of attorneys, which has side effects a.k.a. specialization; in some of the more contentious legal specialties there is public profiling of attorneys who represent certain sides of the argument.
So .. perhaps the profession itself could be said to take money from both sides, but many times, in practice, an individual attorney does not or cannot...