Re: Trial of the Century: US vs Philip Morris, et. al

From: JulieW8 (seemysig_at_netscape.net)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:30:26 GMT

On 06 Oct 2004 11:56:03 GMT, sanditypes@aol.comshazbot (SANDITYPES)
spilled the contents of his/her brain by saying:

>There is no gatekeeper deciding you can't bring a suit, but there are ways to
>sanction those who bring purely frivolous suits. Not to mention the costs
>involved in doing so; while you may be able to file the thing just for the
>filing fee, how likely are you going to do that successfully on your own? No,
>you are going to go (if you are smart) and hire a lawyer. Then the person or
>entity you sued is going to go and get a lawyer. Then the process begins, and
>it's not like you just file the suit and a judge glances at it and says
>"frivolous" nor not. There are huge costs involved with these "discussion
>starters."
>
>Sandi

And those costs not only pass to the taxpayers, they hold up
legitimate lawsuits.

I was kind of waiting for you or Eli to explain the process of filing
a lawsuit and how it costs so much to the taxpayers just to dismiss
it.

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