"We" (here in W.Australia) got sued by a US company for doing math once - took six years of legal back and forth to "win", eight years out of people's lives from disruption, and essentially destroyed a company that innovated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LizardTech,_Inc._v._Earth_Reso....

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tptacek 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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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ryandrake 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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?

	▲	tptacek an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I assure you they are doing a shitload of work. They're just not doing it on your case.

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defrost 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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).

	▲	tptacek 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, of course, believe me I understand viscerally.