re: Prosecutorial Misconduct Reform

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"Legitimately frivolous suits"

In the eyes of the legal community legitimately frivolous suits are nonexistent.

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Juries can be very dumb indeed. That's how John Edwards made millions of bucks presenting bullshite cases.

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Hence why I said legitimately frivolous. If you're going to claim every case that had a result you don't like is "frivolous", then the word has no meaning and neither does this discussion.

The jury returns in those Edwards cases shows they were, by definition, not frivolous.

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Otherwise, why would an ambulance chaser take the case up?

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Again, this is exactly why loser pays would be bad.

If you got sued by one of these guys and lost, would you want to pay the attorney's fees on top of the damages?

Ambulance chasers don't typically take cases without clear liability. That means in loser pays, they make more money.