Comment by bell-cot

16 days ago

Ideally, her home state might have some laws (consumer protection, criminal neglect, whatever) which allowed her to sue Cash App for a very large sum.

IANAL - might any such care to comment?

A related angle is trying to get such laws passed, to discourage similar cases in the future.

> A related angle is trying to get such laws passed, to discourage similar cases in the future

Who is going to sponsor such a law? The same representatives that are paid by the lobbyists of the corporations the laws are targeting?

  • Some legislators - perhaps honest idealists, perhaps those being paid more by lawyers specializing in such lawsuits - do work at getting such laws passed.