If anyone needs an example of why I dislike the legal system, particularly the civil legal system, one need look no further than PayPal. They blatantly take people's money, and their attitude is "sue me." If you do that once; ok you get sued. Companies should not be able to do that over and over again and each time they do it the individual has to sue them. At some point it's a criminal violation. People should go to jail, and the company should be taken into receivership.
The attitude in this country is if it's "just money" and you hide behind a computer you can do whatever you want, and the recovery mechanism (lawsuit) is horrendously expensive and biased towards the party with the most money.
Contrast with how individuals who bounce a check or even skip out on a restaurant bill are treated by the legal system. But if a store fails to deliver what you paid for, police just tell you to take it to civil court.
It is kind of weird when you think about it. Either way, it's breach of contract.
If someone robs a house, but then leaves a rubby ducky and an invoice saying "1 Rubber Ducky - Cost 1 house's contents", is it now only a civil court affair since it's just contract law?
If anyone needs an example of why I dislike the legal system, particularly the civil legal system, one need look no further than PayPal. They blatantly take people's money, and their attitude is "sue me." If you do that once; ok you get sued. Companies should not be able to do that over and over again and each time they do it the individual has to sue them. At some point it's a criminal violation. People should go to jail, and the company should be taken into receivership.
The attitude in this country is if it's "just money" and you hide behind a computer you can do whatever you want, and the recovery mechanism (lawsuit) is horrendously expensive and biased towards the party with the most money.
It's not justice.
Contrast with how individuals who bounce a check or even skip out on a restaurant bill are treated by the legal system. But if a store fails to deliver what you paid for, police just tell you to take it to civil court.
It is kind of weird when you think about it. Either way, it's breach of contract.
If someone robs a house, but then leaves a rubby ducky and an invoice saying "1 Rubber Ducky - Cost 1 house's contents", is it now only a civil court affair since it's just contract law?
You can't have a contract if both parties don't agree to it. That wouldn't even make it to court on those grounds.
A dine-and-dasher or a shortchanger doesn't agree to the contract, either.