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by icebraining 2689 days ago
What's your point? Nobody is criticizing the existence of the civil courts.
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Attorneys who work in civil and criminal law can be defending the powerless, keeping the powerful from facing justice, or somewhere in between. It depends on the particular case.
> Attorneys who work in civil and criminal law can be defending the powerless, keeping the powerful from facing justice, or somewhere in between.

In this case, the lawyers were representing themselves. They not only represented the troll business, but actually are the troll business.

> It depends on the particular case.

I think that's what this thread has been saying.

I responded to a particular comment in the thread.