The Judicial System

Anticrombie0909 · 12-13-2003, 08:38 PM

Lately especially, I've noticed a flurry of frivolous lawsuits pulled against people for no logical reason. I've begun to lose my faith in the legal system, really. It seems like if someone gets hurt, they'll sue, even if it wasn't anyone's fault. They're pissed off and sad, and need a scapegoat, they want repentance from someone. So they sue. And sympathetic Juries, thinking the same way, award people with money and benefits they don't deserve. Beyond that, professions are being targeted, doctors being the most noticable. Lots of doctors are abandoning more risky branches of medicine such as Vasectomies and Obstetrics, because the price for malpractice insurance is too high, and they are too scared of a lawsuit. Nowadays, anything but perfection means malpractice. Here are some examples of actual cases (ongoing or recent) that are absolutely absurd.

Betty Bullock was awarded $28 million (original verdict was $28 billion) from Phillip Morris tobacco for not warning her of the addictive qualities of tobacco, after losing a lung.

Phillip Morris payed an additional $100 million to Richard Boeken who was also a longtime smoker.

In Kentucky, a girl (willingly) performed oral sex on another boy in the back of a bus. The mother is suing the school for not keeping a close watch on them.

In Florida, a soccer mom picking up a pizza drove over the foot of an unattended child who was in the road, out of her sight. A policeman came and did not even give her a ticket. But the parents of the child tried to sue the mother, the soccer league, the city, the refs, and the sponsors of the league.

In Maine, cops searched for three days for a convicted sex offender. When they finally found him in the snowy woods, he had frostbite and lost two toes. The man threatened to sue the city for not finding him faster. (True, I kid you not).

A girl was awarded $5 million from the city when the car she was riding in swerved to avoid an ambulence, smashed into a tree and broke her leg.

A women who was on the Statten Island Ferry when it crashed was unharmed, but is suing the city and/or the ferry company for $200 million- for emotional trauma. I ask you, if you were emotionally traumatized, would you be in the state of mind enough to sue?

Something needs to be done. People are making a mockery of the legal system and it is an outrage. These needless, insane lawsuits have to stop, or eventually you'll have to have a lawyer with you full time to remind you of your rights and defend you wherever you go. Who has thoughts on this?

12-13-2003, 08:38 PM	#1
Anticrombie0909 FFR Player Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4,683	The Judicial System Lately especially, I've noticed a flurry of frivolous lawsuits pulled against people for no logical reason. I've begun to lose my faith in the legal system, really. It seems like if someone gets hurt, they'll sue, even if it wasn't anyone's fault. They're pissed off and sad, and need a scapegoat, they want repentance from someone. So they sue. And sympathetic Juries, thinking the same way, award people with money and benefits they don't deserve. Beyond that, professions are being targeted, doctors being the most noticable. Lots of doctors are abandoning more risky branches of medicine such as Vasectomies and Obstetrics, because the price for malpractice insurance is too high, and they are too scared of a lawsuit. Nowadays, anything but perfection means malpractice. Here are some examples of actual cases (ongoing or recent) that are absolutely absurd. Betty Bullock was awarded $28 million (original verdict was $28 billion) from Phillip Morris tobacco for not warning her of the addictive qualities of tobacco, after losing a lung. Phillip Morris payed an additional $100 million to Richard Boeken who was also a longtime smoker. In Kentucky, a girl (willingly) performed oral sex on another boy in the back of a bus. The mother is suing the school for not keeping a close watch on them. In Florida, a soccer mom picking up a pizza drove over the foot of an unattended child who was in the road, out of her sight. A policeman came and did not even give her a ticket. But the parents of the child tried to sue the mother, the soccer league, the city, the refs, and the sponsors of the league. In Maine, cops searched for three days for a convicted sex offender. When they finally found him in the snowy woods, he had frostbite and lost two toes. The man threatened to sue the city for not finding him faster. (True, I kid you not). A girl was awarded $5 million from the city when the car she was riding in swerved to avoid an ambulence, smashed into a tree and broke her leg. A women who was on the Statten Island Ferry when it crashed was unharmed, but is suing the city and/or the ferry company for $200 million- for emotional trauma. I ask you, if you were emotionally traumatized, would you be in the state of mind enough to sue? Something needs to be done. People are making a mockery of the legal system and it is an outrage. These needless, insane lawsuits have to stop, or eventually you'll have to have a lawyer with you full time to remind you of your rights and defend you wherever you go. Who has thoughts on this?

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