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Upwork just stole $10k from me

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342 points dustedcodes | 2 comments | 25 Feb 23 10:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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hackerlight ◴[25 Feb 23 10:59 UTC] No.34935652[source]▶
Spend $100k that he doesn't have on lawyers only to potentially recover $10k good times. Corporations need to be fined millions of dollars every single time this happens even once.
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1. varispeed ◴[25 Feb 23 11:17 UTC] No.34935743[source]▶
Other way I think these things could be improved if there was legal equality. This means the defendant couldn't spend more on legal help than the claimant. If defendant found using inappropriate legal help, they the ruling would be automatically in favour of the claimant.

Example: A big corporation done something wrong and you want them to make things right. You only have $2000 budget and so big corporation will not be able to use more than $2000 for their defence. If they have any lawyers on retainer etc they won't be able to use them either.

If corporations would like to spend let's say $1m on defence, they would have to give claimant $1m to spend on their claim.

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2. nraynaud ◴[25 Feb 23 11:53 UTC] No.34935941[source]▶
I think in the small claims courts of California, lawyers are banned. Iirc there was a story where someone took Google to small claim and a paralegal appeared to defend google.