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[SplashJacket]

You don't settle unless you know you're going to lose.

That is so insanely wrong.

The same logic applied to both sides means both sides know they would lose.

 

[Prince-1]

You don't settle unless you know you're going to lose.

Sounds good in theory but that is 100% totally incorrect. Businesses and people settle lawsuits for a variety of reasons.

 

[Prince-1]

That is so insanely wrong.

The same logic applied to both sides means both sides know they would lose.

His logic is ridiculously flawed.

 

[flynnibus]

You don't settle unless you know you're going to lose.

Not true.

Lawyers navigate lesser of evils as part of their mondus operandi

 

[SSG]

Attorney in real life here. Meritorious cases settle all the time. The vast majority of cases settle. You factor in what you could get by having your best day in court, and what you could lose by having your worst day in court. Settling removes the uncertainty of what 12 randos off the street might decide, or what an overburdened judge thinks is the best outcome before they get to the 40 other cases on their calendar. Settling removes the burden of ongoing legal costs. Most of all, settling lets people move on with their lives.

Settling is good.

 

[Disney Irish]

You don't settle unless you know you're going to lose.

Tell me you don't understand the legal system without telling me you don't understand the legal system.

 

[Karakasa]

It's well known that money rules the legal system in a lot of ways, and not even from a "corruption" angle, but perfectly legal, in-the-open ways. Perps will walk free if they have the money and the crime isn't that serious because prosecutors know they'll be wasting taxpayer money trying to ding someone who isn't worth the cost to bring to justice. This is even more true in civil court, where in general, the average American can't afford to go up against goliaths like Disney. Or, flipside, where Disney going to legal battle with Trump could lead to them winning... but would also cost them millions or billions in legal fees and could cost them Trump voters buying their product - the latter being a more serious concern given he actually won the popular vote this time. They're betting on the reason for him winning being "majority of Americans want him" and not "a lot of people who didn't want him didn't like Harris either and stayed home".

The idea that people only settle or do plea deals if they're going to lose is based in an idea that the legal system we have is perfectly unbiased. That's not the reality we live in. As long as money determines who can argue what on behalf of who and for how long, it can't be.