Trial Judge: Stop Suing over Every Little Thing
January 11, 2016
Modern American culture is way too quick to sue and waste years of everyone’s life slogging it out in the sluggish court system. Sometimes even those who make their living from this system agree.
The trial judge in a recent case in West Virginia, on “what is essentially a boundary dispute” that eventually took at least a year and a half of litigation to resolve:
Loser-pays Can Win in America?
June 24, 2011
Today I read that under Governor Rick Perry, Texas has adopted a loser-pays system!
In America, if someone sues you, you pay for a lawyer. Even if you ultimately win the lawsuit and aren’t held liable for any damages at all, you’ve still lost thousands of dollars in attorneys’ fees (not to mention the time taken out of your life, which you can never get back). A lot of the theory behind tort law revolves around making people “whole” for the wrongs they’ve suffered. Who will make you whole? Read the rest of this entry »