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tptacektoday at 12:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

I don't think these are crazy timelines for civil litigation here. I mean, is it worth criticizing? I guess, sure. But: civil suits take for-ev-er. A case is an indeterminate but fairly large number of steps, each of which includes 1d8+4 month next check-in date.


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ryandraketoday at 1:15 AM

I'd like to see an hour-by-hour breakdown of what labor is actually being done, by which judges, lawyers and clerks, during the course of a 6 year trial, and see how much it adds up to. I wonder if it would even amount to a single, cumulative person-month of work?

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defrosttoday at 12:56 AM

I'm not disagreeing on the time frame, just bitching about the impact and the cold truth that often no one wins (save for lawyers).

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