Why Use Common Sense When You Can Sue?
The anecdote goes, 99% of lawyers make the other 1% look bad. There is a reason for the anecdote and a local story points it out.
Most of us are aware of the problems Target has had with hackers. Seventy and up to 100 million people have had their account information taken. Target has done much to protect them, but that will not be enough for some. An example is in a recent copy of the local government organ, the Charlotte Observer.
In the story we are told: “On Jan. 10, Knox said he got a notice that someone in China had tried to gain access to his email account. Last week, he said somebody used his debit card information to spend $162.50 at a Walmart in Houston. RushCard was able to reverse the charges, the suit states, and issue a new debit card. Knox says in the suit that he is unable to make day-to-day purchases until the new card arrives. Target offered him free credit monitoring, the suit says.”
This is the basis of a lawsuit? That a person can’t make day to day purchases with a debit card until the new one arrives in the mail. I’ve got one for him, someone cut me off in traffic. Or better yet, I don’t like the odor of the perfume a lady was wearing in Belk’s. How about the school bus was late picking my children up which caused me to sit in traffic longer than I am accustomed to?
The story goes on. “Charlotte attorney Gary Jackson, one of the lawyers representing Knox, said he expects the case will eventually become part of “multi-district” litigation that consolidates cases from around the country.
The breach has hurt Target customers like Knox because they are unable to make daily purchases such as gas and groceries until they receive new cards, Jackson said. It’s also not clear whether the one year of free credit monitoring offered by Target will be sufficient, he said.”
Of course one year of free credit monitoring will not be enough. The attorney Mr Gary Jackson, can’t make any money off of Target if he can’t sue them. Seeing a glimmer of a chance that Target will pay instead of suffer a lawsuit, Mr. Jackson jumps on the band wagon. He’s looking for a free ride. No welfare recipient has anything on him. He, with the assistance of the imaginatively injured Mr. Knox will get the court system to give them their welfare check.
Is this what we’ve come to? Yes. Even though Mr. Knox knows full well that in giving his information to a company for their use, he thinks they should be perfect. No, he is complicit and is doing nothing to help remedy the situation but, as too many people, thinks he has no obligation or responsibility to himself.
Let me make some suggestions. Mr. Knox: Go to the bank, get $150 in cash and use that until your card comes in. For the lawyer, Mr. Jackson: grow up and do something constructive for a living instead of seeking a free ride. For the courts: throw the lawsuits out. here are a few legal tips important to know when getting a lawyer.
The courts are complicit too. They too often let frivolous lawsuits continue when they should be stopped.
But this is what our society has come to. Mr. Knox, seeking an easy way to make purchases, gives away his information, even though aware that people are constantly trying to hack these type of information.
His lawyer, Mr. Jackson, sees a free ride, yet will want people to think what a fine upstanding man he his. His logic is: stealing is moral if it’s legal and it’s legal if he does it with a lawsuit.
The courts are: well, I’m not going to say anything nice. They are run by a bunch of lawyers and too often cooperate in the crookedness.
And President Obama wonders why people are so disillusioned with government. Well, it’s because it’s being run by a bunch of thieves.
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