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From: gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Liability Lawsuits Getting Out of Hand (ha!)
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 20:00:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 20:00:17 1985
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When asked about inmates filing destructive lawsuits from prison,
a lawyer friend of mine made the offhand comment:

"They (the people on the outside) have to defend themselves,
whether or not the lawsuit is valid,
otherwise their lives are ruined from debt.

When they go to court, they have to spend up to $10K for lawyers
fees and time-off from work.  The criminal that initiated the suit
has paid nothing but filing fees (and sometimes not even that).

The suit usually (but not always) ends in the criminal getting
nothing, but causes the defendant spending a large sum of money.

...

The lowest-cost thing to do would be to pay another inmate a
couple-hundred bucks to kill the guy initiating the lawsuits.

-- not that I'd tell a client that!  No, that'd be illegal!"

Hmmm...