Friday, May 2, 2008

Judge and Jury

For the past six days, I have been sitting in a jury box, referred to as juror #1. This took place downtown in federal court. It was a civil suit filed by a lady that looks like the girl in this picture who was suing her employer for descrimination for being a woman and also descriminated for getting hurt on the job. We had to endure six days of intrrogation and defense battling back and forth arguing timelines and documents. To sum it up , the defense did a fantastic job in defending a major company. The girl was also looking for monetary settlement to the tune of $250,000.
When the defense rested, it only took us 12.5 minutes to say No you weren't descriminated because of gender or because you got hurt. The company actually went out of its way to accomodate her and she still works there making$ 75000/year. There was zero dollars awarded.
Why are these cases even allowed in court? Why should't the plaitiff who loses, like this case, be required to pay all the legal fees that were necessary for the defense to spend on this frivolous lawsuit?This is one of the problems of our legal system.

Case Closed,
Steg

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