Coveted fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has launched a civil lawsuit against Google after being wrongly identified as a sex offender in the AI-generated summary.
they could always be sued. the standing of the plaintiffs can (and given the defendant, will) always be challenged. some of it is fundamental rights, some of it’s procedural wrangling.
Yes they could always be sued. But people tend to shy away from sueing big companies like google. Seeing someone else win, makes it feel possible. Plus it shows a strategy for winning. Thus increasing the number of people trying for a payday.
Oh right sorry fuck. I get pedantic as fuck when I talk law (because the field itself is where you go to pedant professionally) and I’m try to get better at that. I would use the word momentum to describe what you are describing because “precedent” is a term of art (it has a very specific meaning in a the legal field) but there are others that would work too.
I have recently been thinking about the family members who were attorneys and judges who passed away. Maybe I need to go hang out at the courthouse for a bit.
The precedent that fucking around is going to hurt is what we need set.
Unfortunately jury trials set no precedent, even if they award damages. So Google can afford to lose because it’s almost always a jury trial.
Not a “legal” precedent. But a precedent that they can be sued, and they can lose. Causing more people to sue…
they could always be sued. the standing of the plaintiffs can (and given the defendant, will) always be challenged. some of it is fundamental rights, some of it’s procedural wrangling.
Yes they could always be sued. But people tend to shy away from sueing big companies like google. Seeing someone else win, makes it feel possible. Plus it shows a strategy for winning. Thus increasing the number of people trying for a payday.
Oh right sorry fuck. I get pedantic as fuck when I talk law (because the field itself is where you go to pedant professionally) and I’m try to get better at that. I would use the word momentum to describe what you are describing because “precedent” is a term of art (it has a very specific meaning in a the legal field) but there are others that would work too.
I have recently been thinking about the family members who were attorneys and judges who passed away. Maybe I need to go hang out at the courthouse for a bit.