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by bleah1000 1008 days ago
But that assumes that Google would settle. Without that happening, you are looking at years before getting a result, thousands of dollars of attorney fees and a high likelihood that if they lost they would appeal.

This might be more of an emotional lawsuit than a logical one.
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dragonwriter 1008 days ago
> But that assumes that Google would settle.

Which is a not unreasonable assumption. It doesn't take much before Google's cost outstrip the cost of settlement, and even if it were to prevail in court it probably wouldn't recover costs

> Without that happening, you are looking at years before getting a result, thousands of dollars of attorney fees and a high likelihood that if they lost they would appeal.

Yes, it will take time if the other side doesn't settle, that's rather the norm in lawsuits. But its reasonably likely there is a contingency fee arrangement in olace, meaning the lawyers get paid with and out of any settlement or judgement.

> This might be more of an emotional lawsuit than a logical one

That's always possible, but you haven't really done much to argue for it being likely.

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pixl97 1008 days ago
>> But that assumes that Google would settle. >Which is a not unreasonable assumption

Not sure about Google, but companies like Walmart never settle. For them it's better to have the lawyers tell you "Oh, you're going after Wally, well, that's going to be the next 10 years of your life wasted", then it is to worry about the per litigation costs.

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dragonwriter 1008 days ago
> Not sure about Google, but companies like Walmart never settle.

This is simply false. While Walmart is aggressive, they do settle. What Walmart does which masks this is, where they have they have the leverage to do so, as they usually do with individual plaintiffs that actually are concerned about financial compensation, insist in strict confidentiality terms in settlements which makes them unlikely to be reported. But even that doesn't cover everything, and there are noteworthy publicly reported settlements.

https://www.millerandzois.com/wal-mart-injury-settlements.ht...

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ajdude 1006 days ago
> But that assumes that Google would settle.

See also: Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf] (ca.gov) 174 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37582565

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Yeul 1008 days ago
No cure no pay lawyers fix that. Some ambulance chasing law degree scumbag will take the bet.
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