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Already $24,000 in debt before the trial even began
This is an outrage, and only more proof that we need a loser-pays system (limited only to requiring a losing plaintiff to pay for the legal costs of a winning defendant) for our civil courts. No one should ever have to pay legal expenses if they are the victims of a frivolous lawsuit.
We also should extend the protections of 5th Amendment to the civil law system. Anyone who files a civil lawsuit should be require to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they were indeed wronged.