You would win and then find out the company assets are $10,000 worth of office furniture, a k-cup machine, and a network switch.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-31/matt-l...
a guy selling cigarettes on the streets of NYC without a permit would have been choked to death in seconds. (actual thing that happened)
seems like this justice imbalance in the USA is something we can get bipartisan support for changing. lets do it yall.
I don’t know, but that is a question for behavior. I do believe in rehabilitation being the underlying goal of prison, so I’d be thrilled if they came out of it changed people.
> a guy selling cigarettes on the streets of NYC without a permit would have been choked to death in seconds. (actual thing that happened)
And that is awful. Never said I was defending that.
> seems like this justice imbalance in the USA is something we can get bipartisan support for changing. lets do it yall.
If only.
It really does seem the harshest punishments are handed out for hurting people/companies more powerful than you. The rich and powerful, including corporations, should be held more accountable. Instead, the law seems to get used mostly to keep people in their place.
I still remember how HSBC got fined millions for laundering billions for Mexican drug cartels. Normal people would be doing hard time if they did that. Banks get fined less than the size of the crime.
Contrast that with the tone taken by our most powerful, about the scourge of illegal immigrants bring the very same chemicals into the country by swimming the Rio Grande. I would not be surprised to hear support for summary executions of every third person in Laredo, TX.
not authoritative, but general trend is ~ 40 plaintiff are acceptable minimum cohort for a class, but that can be even smaller, a class of 1 is feasible but very uncommon.
also tradesies on office furniture.
The lawyers can take some office chairs as well.
And they don’t even really lose anyway, it’s just a cost of doing business. Just spin up another company and get back to the call sheet.
We have hucksters abusing legitimate business structures. I think we need an “in good faith” escape clause for LLCs that captures folks that abuse them.