Comment by tptacek

12 hours ago

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.

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defrost  12 hours ago

"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....

  • tptacek  12 hours ago

    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.

    • ryandrake  11 hours ago

      I'd like to see an hour-by-hour breakdown of what labor is actually being done, by which judges, lawyers and clerks, during the course of a 6 year trial, and see how much it adds up to. I wonder if it would even amount to a single, cumulative person-month of work?

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