On Jul 20, 3:20*pm, Evan wrote:
On Jul 20, 10:56*am, keith wrote:



On Jul 20, 8:58*am, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"notbob" wrote in message

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On 2010-07-20, HeyBub wrote:

I understand that Wal-Mart will NEVER settle a meritless "slip-and-fall"
case. They may lose money defending such a case but their theory is that
a
vigorous defense against a single nuisance suit deters 100 others.

Hey, when you've got more money than god. what's a few legal fees. *I
doubt they give a flying crap about other nuisance suits. *It's just a
simple exercise in power. *They have more money than they can possible
use, so what else can they do for chuckles. *Howzabout flex some muscle
and see who we can make flinch. *Oooh... lookee!! *The US government!
Jinkies.

nb

What legal fees? They have salaried lawyers. Employees of the company, in
other words.

Right. *Employees are free. *No salaries, no employment taxes, free..
I wonder why 17% of the workers are un(der)employed?

17% of the lawyer's "billable hours" (lingo for their working time) of
the in-house

Wrong.

staff counsel at the Dept. of Labor - New York Office - OHSA Division
are being
dedicated to this one case... *They are not "underemployed" as they
would
otherwise be dealing with multitudes of more simple cases if they were
not
engaged in the effort to defend their agencies position on the Walmart
matter...

If you think that is odd, you have no idea how many man hours and tax
dollars
go into presenting some criminal cases... *Two or three Assistant
District
Attorneys prepping a case where millions of dollars have been spent to
get it
this far with investigation time, evidence gathering, lab processing
of the
evidence and obtaining expert witnesses to provide testimony... *That
all adds
up very quickly...

....and your point is?