Comment by defrost
13 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....
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.
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?
I assure you they are doing a shitload of work. They're just not doing it on your case.
I'm not disagreeing on the time frame, just bitching about the impact and the cold truth that often no one wins (save for lawyers).
No, of course, believe me I understand viscerally.