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- From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Subject: Re: legal question re anonymity online
- In-Reply-To: Shawn.K..Quinn@f7550.n106.z1.fidonet.org's message of Sat, 09 Jan 1993 04:56:19 -0600
- Message-ID: <BZS.93Jan10160650@world.std.com>
- Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
- Organization: The World
- References: <726629212.AA00538@f-454.fidonet.org>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:06:50 GMT
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- From: Shawn.K..Quinn@f7550.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Shawn K. Quinn)
- >I wonder if anyone has ever sued a soap factory for that... But
- >seriously, this touches on another point I've wondered about: how are
- >we going to stop abuses of the legal system in these instances? The
- >late 80s and early 90s are almost becoming the "age of the lawsuit."
-
- As the word gets out that the only ones who ever make any money on
- these silly suits are each party's lawyers the public will lose
- interest. With luck someone, someday will realize to what extent the
- legal profession by its total failure to self-regulate encouraged this
- abuse of the public and something will be done. But I think the
- natural back-pressure I mentioned first will help.
-
- If you (anyone) ever get the urge to pursue one of these silly suits
- (or even not-so-silly), as you walk into an attorney's office who's
- broad-beamed smile welcomes you in and you are plied with fresh coffee
- and donuts and your outrage empathized with and encouraged, repeat
- these words to yourself over and over again:
-
- Step into my parlor, said the spider to the fly...
-
- You are the merchandise, you are today's lunch, your chances of ever
- seeing a nickel versus your chances of paying this attorney thousands
- (or just turning it all over to the attorney if they, not you, happen
- to win something) are about as good as that fly's chances of getting
- home on time tonight.
-
- If lawyers were doctors then hospitals would be places where one of
- them injects your arm with a disease and the other with the cure, and
- both will expect to be paid.
-
- --
- -Barry Shein
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