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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Perhaps you mean, once lawyers start smelling money, lawsuits start rolling.
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That much is a given.
Ambulance chasers are always looking for a pocket to sue.
But when they find a case where the government has already done 90% of the job--proving the defendant has violated the law--they just drool like Dr Pavlov's dogs.
That is what happened to Microsoft; even companies that had faded out of sheer stupidity were able to collect 9-figure payoffs just by whining before a jury. And that is why the three best alternatives when faced with a federal antitrust lawsuit are: settle, settle, and for Adam Smith's sake, SETTLE!!!!
(As for the same ambulance chaser showing up again: look to the date of the first filing--sept 2013; that is when the joke lawsuit was all in the news. As the Madison ave guys say: There is no such thing as bad publicity. Sometimes a loser of a case will draw the attention of somebody with a winning case.
Remember, even ambulance chasers win often enough to keep chasing ambulances.
For a rational company, these kinds of nuisance suits need to be quashed before the publicity attracts too much attention. Don't want to start a feeding frenzy...