I said 10,000,000 not 10,000. If 10,000,000 is not enough to cover 'damages' then I think there are bigger issues. I have no issue with making companies pay for wrong doing, but I think suing a dry cleaners for $5,000,000 because they lost your pants or suing McDonalds because the coffee they served you was hot and you spilled it while trying to drive and drink it at the same time is just a tad bit over board.
Also, I don't think what I said would be considered 'whining'. I merely was trying to state that maybe our tax dollars could be better spent than muddling through obviously frivolous lawsuits like the 3 quadrillion dollar lawsuit, like maybe rebuilding the levees the right way. But I guess its better that we cower to these lawsuits than actually try to fix the problem. Anyone who willingly (key word there is WILLINGLY) lives in a coastal city that is, on average, 6 feet below sea level and has their house flooded will get no sympathy from me and should only be able to sue Mother Nature for their losses. On Jan 9, 2008 7:12 PM, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what happens when the damages inflicted are over $10,000? It seems to me > what this would do is tilt the courts (which are already biased towards > money interests) towards whomever has the most money. > > All a corporation or a very rich person would have to do is to keep > delaying until its no longer worth trying to sue them. Consider the victims > of some massive environmental damage suit, all what the company would have > to do is delay and delay. > > >OK, how is this for a solution. > > > >No matter what the injury/travesty/emotional scarring or whatever other > >'injury' you want to label it, a person can sue for no more than $10,000, > >000.00, unless it is a child under the age of 18, then you can sue for > >$20,000,000. But, if you lose, you have to pay the person you were suing > >the amount you tried to get from them. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:250363 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
