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Originally Posted by verbaljitsu
One of us was in courtroom 101 today. One of us is just typing some shit into google and mixing that with some seriously skewed pre-conceived notions of the justice system. You seriously don't get it.
Assuming (and this is a very large assumption), that the family could get a lawyer to take the case, and then manage to prove liability. The damages would literally be that the man died one day before he was going to die anyway. If they somehow managed to win a verdict, it would be of the symbolic variety. $1 verdicts happen all the time. And you have a much bigger problem on liability than you think. It isn't worth breaking it down.
Its the same reason that its hard to win medical malpractice cases when the patient was terminally ill. Even when you win, its pyrrhic.
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Actually, one of us has quite a bit of knowledge about the legal system inside prisons and knows that these cases happen all the time. I didn't google anything that I wrote. Great, you were in courtroom 101. If you don't think prisons get sued for this regularly, you're wrong, and I don't see any way you can deny that. Like I said, the damages probably wouldn't be great, but it probably wouldn't go to court. I'm almost positive the state would cut his family a check.