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but who pays...but who pays...Posted Jan 29, 2004 19:17 UTC (Thu) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)In reply to: Naive comments by jharding Parent article: HR 3261 and the ownership of facts Yes, but under the US legal system the person/company being sued has to pay their own bills, so fishing expeditions (threatening to sue in order to get a out-of-court settlement) are routine. In Chile, I expect the loser had to pay the legal bills, meaning that this type of shake down doesn't happen nearly so often.
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but who pays... Posted Jan 29, 2004 22:16 UTC (Thu) by hingo (subscriber, #14792) [Link] So you are really saying that the US legal system is flawed *in general* and that even a good law can be abused by the rich. I'd have to say I agree. But from that does not follow, that this law is bad, unless you propose that the US in its current state would be better off without any laws at all.henrik
US going lawless? Posted Feb 6, 2004 0:17 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] There's a case to be made for this.In fact it's being made now at the western end of Cuba...
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