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Wednesday, February 09, 2005Lawyers who file complaints without taking care to verify them are subject to sanctions. Courts don't impose those very often, but based on the press accounts this seems like it might be a prime candidate for that sort of supervision. Organizations who file bogus or frivolous lawsuits based on the results of obviously flawed computer programs ought to be sanctioned. They should have to compensate the people they falsely charge for their costs, lost time, aggravation, and damage to reputation. And the lawyers involved should be subject to professional discipline. This happens in malpractice cases all the time, although the lawyers don't use computer bots to get the names of their targets - yet. For now they do it the old fashioned way, by getting the paper charts and paying someone to comb through it for every single name to sue, without ever checking to see if they've had anything to do with the alleged injury. And they do it with impunity. In the future world of universally accessible computerized records, there's no reason to think they won't be using bots, too. posted by Sydney on 2/09/2005 08:46:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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