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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Liability Lawsuits Getting Out of Hand (ha!)
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 14:01:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 14:01:33 1985
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Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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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!"

That's not why he'd fail to tell a client that!  He wants the $MMMK, rather
than having his clients pay $n00 to some inmate! :-)

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John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101
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