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by 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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> 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...