So a few thoughts on this. Lawsuits seem like a generally bad way to resolve things. 1/11 (thread)
Breaking: @SenateGOP to vote tomorrow to take away your legal rights against companies like @Equifax & @WellsFargo. Here's what's at stake.
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Lawsuits are expensive, and they're also pretty random, especially where decisions are made by juries. 2/11
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But now they seem to be the only way for many individuals to fight a big company over a little money for each of them that adds up. 3/11
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The need to address this sort of thing through class-action lawsuits seems like a workaround for our legal system being broken. 4/11
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What if the judicial branch had neutral advocate/investigator roles rather than being completely adversarial? 5/11
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Or regulators in the executive branch who could sue for damages to citizens without requiring the citizens pay legal costs? 6/11
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What if legal services could be provided through forms or automated systems rather than requiring an expensive lawyer for everything? 7/11
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Lawyers are *fantastic* at using occupational licensing and other laws to keep the cost of legal services high and inaccessible. 8/11
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This makes lawyers rich, but it also makes the legal system almost unusable as a way to defend the rights of ordinary Americans. 9/11
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... but still granted rights to a more expensive appeal process when such a process was wanted? 11/11
Oct 24, 2017 · 3:41 AM UTC
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