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Irenes (many)

@mcc we're also deeply distressed that the legal defense appears to be that it's the wife's estate, not the husband, who is the plaintiff, and that she wasn't the one who signed up for the now-long-expired free trial

and not, for example, that the argument has no merit due to its obvious absurdity

15 August at 0:04 | Wall-to-wall | Open on adhd.irenes.space
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mcc

@ireneista Typically lawyers work every angle available to them simultaneously. But…

Yeah.

15 August at 0:07 | Open on mastodon.social
Irenes (many)

@mcc yes, absolutely. we're glad there's a solid argument that this bullshit can't work because of a technicality, but we wish there were a solid argument that it can't work because it's evil supervillain shit.

15 August at 0:09 | Open on adhd.irenes.space
Resuna

@ireneista @mcc

If evil supervillian shit was illegal that would cut into employment opportunities for the law profession.

15 August at 0:13 | Open on ohai.social
kouhai, resolver of merges

@ireneista and more specifically, there’s also the shrink wrap argument, which i think is roughly “no reasonable person can be expected to believe that clicking this agreement will lead to waiving rights in the context of this specific service […]” etc

15 August at 0:47 | Open on social.treehouse.systems
Irenes (many)

@kouhai oh good. yes. we remember the shrink wrap contract law stuff, thank you very much for pointing out the connection.

15 August at 0:48 | Open on adhd.irenes.space
demize

@mcc @ireneista my reaction to this on discord when I saw it was basically

“this is pretty standard throw everything at the wall strategies, but it sure would be nice if they didn’t throw Bob and Michelle King plotlines at the wall to see if they stuck”

15 August at 2:14 | Open on unstable.systems
Irenes (many)

@demize @mcc yeah, it's the kind of thing that large companies like to have their lawyers do because they know that responding to it costs money and the opposing party has less of that

15 August at 2:17 | Open on adhd.irenes.space
demize

@mcc @ireneista I mean I prefer the good faith (well…) interpretation of “we can’t change strategies halfway through the trial, so we have to start off with all of them and let the court whittle them down for us”, similar to how plaintiffs file against anyone who might even be tangentially related to the suit

and then sometimes they go overboard in that and it turns into an episode of The Good Wife (though this one is comically evil enough it might be a The Good Fight episode actually)

15 August at 2:21 | Open on unstable.systems
Jay

@ireneista @demize @mcc The even more evil version of this is in cases where a sick victim is suing, and the lawyers drag out the case until the victim dies.

15 August at 3:27 | Open on mastodon.online
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