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Re: Getting new rules locked in by FCC better than lawsuits ....
said by jc100  :TK JUNK, We all recognize this but you miss the big picture. While the lawyers WILL GET RICH, consumers will have laws protecting them on the books. Companies will no longer be able to get away with this crap. It has to come at someone's expense. Sure the lawyers will be the real winners monetarily, but the consumers will finally get protections in place. But they get the legal protections anyway when the FCC implements the new rules. So where is the need for the lawsuits? All the lawsuits do is raise the costs to the cell companies - which WILL be passed on to the customer in higher fees.
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| Tk you are very very wrong. It usually takes lawsuits to spur the action of agencies. Do you think worker protections, safety measures, and many of the luxuries we enjoy were done on their own? If you say yes, you are by far mistaken. Most changes only came after legal battles occurred. While I hate that the lawyers get rich off this, it's a fact of life. |
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said by TKJunkMail :But they get the legal protections anyway when the FCC implements the new rules. So where is the need for the lawsuits? All the lawsuits do is raise the costs to the cell companies - which WILL be passed on to the customer in higher fees. Because of course, if we know something from all your posts, is that your real concern is always how this will affect the customers.  |
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| said by jhboricua :said by TKJunkMail :But they get the legal protections anyway when the FCC implements the new rules. So where is the need for the lawsuits? All the lawsuits do is raise the costs to the cell companies - which WILL be passed on to the customer in higher fees. Because of course, if we know something from all your posts, is that your real concern is always how this will affect the customers. I'm a customer. I care too.
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said by jc100 :Tk you are very very wrong. It usually takes lawsuits to spur the action of agencies. Do you think worker protections, safety measures, and many of the luxuries we enjoy were done on their own? If you say yes, you are by far mistaken. Most changes only came after legal battles occurred. While I hate that the lawyers get rich off this, it's a fact of life. Yep. How many lawsuits have changed the law, enforced it, or made it a precedent? Almost all of them. A lawsuit filed today is deep-rooted in a lawsuit filed 10-20-50-100 years ago. Read a lawsuit (the complaint) and see how many citations of case law there are--a bunch.
Example: XYZ, Inc. sues ABC, Inc. over predatory pricing. XYZ, Inc. wins setting precedent.
Actuals:
Florida capped the interest rate title loan companies could charge so they moved to Alabama.
A lawyer sued an Airline over airline safety in the 1970s. He won. It changed airline safety forever. Laws came forward to cover the airline safety procedures.
Miss. - A lawyers sues State Farm and other insurance companies saying that wind damage from hurricanes caused water damage and the insurance company had to pay. LA. then did it. Florida was doing it. Insurance companies lost big time. In Florida (absent Crist as Insurance Commish), now State Farm is dropping Wind Damage from policies this year. My question: WHAT THE HELL IS IT GOOD FOR NOW?
Did you know that class action lawyers put ALL the money out to sue, take depos, gather evidence, etc.? Class actions are complex litigation that can take 10-20 years to finish. Lawyers suing over breast implants 18 years ago have yet to see a penny even though they won.
Medical malpractice lawyers (you're best friend since State Departments of Health won't discipline a doctor if he left an Altoids box in someone while being drunk and snorting cocaine in the OR) spend $100,000 or more putting a case together.
Old saying: You hate lawyers till you need one.
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