Comment on Google loses $314 million lawsuit over data transfers when Android phones are idle

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I hate that this is how our legal system has evolved. Trial courts mean nothing when a corporation loses, because invariably an appeal is filed, and if the district court upholds a ruling, well, time to talk to SCOTUS.

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  • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’d prefer to lose the right to appeal?

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not at all … it’s just that corporations, unwilling to take no for an answer, have functionally unlimited funds to throw toward several rounds of escalating court cases while defendants … don’t. It creates an inherently lopsided situation the legal system wasn’t explicitly designed for, but now this is just standard.

      Companies walk into these trials essentially seeing the first round as a rehearsal.

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      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Doesn’t the appellate court only accept the case if there’s an issue with the ruling in a lower court? It’s absolutely loaded, but it’s hard to see an alternative without giving up the right to appeal.

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