Thread: Shaving lawsuit
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Old 11-29-2001, 02:16 PM  
Chris R
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I am not against suing people, but you would be more or less wasting your time.

In some areas you can sue people for around $10 - you would probably have to go to US District Court which is around $150.

Unfortunately, other than scaring them with your suit - which you could very well do - as they would most likely have to hire an attorney and everything - you would almmost never make it past summary judgement.

Basically, what happens is their lawyer would say they didn't shave - you would say they did. Unfortunately, if you do not have at least SOME PROOF upfront - they will dismiss the case. You would need a sworn affidavit at the very least from someone who "witnessed" the shaving. If you can provide proof - then they will let the case go onto discovery - where you can get their records audited and such.

I know it seems backwards (you need the proof first), but take it from someone who has both won and lost summary judgement motions - you face a very, very, very uphill battle. But like I say, it is $150-$250 to start out - and if you did it yourself - who knows what would happen.

Trust me - even if you got 100 webmasters together to say they were being shaved - it wouldn't count. You could survive summary judgement with only one ex-employee that was willing to SWEAR under oath that he or she SAW it being done. You could depose them (you can not force them to produce records at this stage) in order to TRY to get this.

It would be very hard even if you managed to beat summary judgement.

Just my 2 cents.

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