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Comment by giantg2

11 hours ago

Yes, civil suits are also legal battles. There's no reason it should have taken more than a year to resolve.

By the way, I dont know who you are quoting as that is not my exact wording.

I think this is the kind of thing that sounds reasonable until the first time you've sued someone. Resolution in one year? Don't even fantasize about it.

  • "We" (here in W.Australia) got sued by a US company for doing math once - took six years of legal back and forth to "win", eight years out of people's lives from disruption, and essentially destroyed a company that innovated.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LizardTech,_Inc._v._Earth_Reso....

    • I don't think these are crazy timelines for civil litigation here. I mean, is it worth criticizing? I guess, sure. But: civil suits take for-ev-er. A case is an indeterminate but fairly large number of steps, each of which includes 1d8+4 month next check-in date.

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