Comment on Google loses $314 million lawsuit over data transfers when Android phones are idle
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 days agoI 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.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 days ago
You’d prefer to lose the right to appeal?
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 2 days 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.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 days 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.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Not the ruling itself, but corporations file all sorts of motions before and during the initial trial specifically so that if a motion is denied, voila! Now the jury verdict and compensation decision isn’t what they’re challenging, but rather technical aspects from rulings by the judge overseeing the trial court … admission or inadmission of evidence is always a popular one.
To suggest that anyone else has the sort of law firms on retainer to play this game all the way to the top is folly. It’s just another way in which the system is rigged.