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by vtail 1817 days ago
Could you please clarify what do you think is horrible? Anyone can sue anyone in the US, for any reason, and allege a lot of bad things. It also true that cost of litigation is often much, much higher than a settlement - e.g. the 3 employee suing asked for $200k in damages, which I assume is just an opening offer. A reasonable lawyer can easily cost upwards of $500/hr, and require many, many hours of work even if the process never gets to the court.

My close friend is been sued for ridiculous reasons by ex-partners. It already costed him $750k in legal fees,and although he is very likely to win the case, it’s expected to take another 2 years before the case is resolved, at which point he will be allowed to file for recovering his costs (easily anothe couple of years).
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Rantenki 1817 days ago
It's not a mere allegation, they lost a similar suit about hispanic employees, and had a HUGE settlement ruling against them: https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-and-b-h-reach-43-million-...

They've been proven to discriminate, in a court of law. I'd give this new lawsuit the benefit of the doubt.

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vtail 1817 days ago
Thank you, this is important context I was not aware of, although to be fair, these events happened 10 years prior to the new case.
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DetroitThrow 1817 days ago
>Could you please clarify what do you think is horrible [about an employee discrimination lawsuit]?

I wonder why so many forum users frame statements they want to make as questions which challenge innocent comments.

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gilrain 1817 days ago
There is a term for it: JAQing off. Just Asking Questions. It's used to put forward a distasteful argument without actually standing behind it.

As in, "Why are you getting heated? I'm not condoning [whatever], I'm just asking questions."

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vtail 1817 days ago
You may well think so, but I was asking an honest question. I don’t think it’s distasteful to doubt any allegations, esp. when missing some context, in this case, 10 years old judgement against B&H.
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spoonjim 1816 days ago
But you should probably examine why you were so quick to assume that the allegations were baseless.
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vtail 1816 days ago
As I tried to point out, a mere fact that someone is suing someone is not enough to conclude anything about which side is right; that’s why I was asking someone who seemed to have more context.

I’m not sure why people are reading too much into my honest question.

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