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I was a on a jury once where a construction worker was suing a department store for negligence because he fell through a properly-marked hole that HIS team had made in the floor, and which he was fully aware of.
He put his ladder too close it.
That was pretty much the summary of the first day's testimony. From the worker.
The second day we arrived to be told that the case was settled and we could go home, but before we were dismissed, the judge asked us to show by raising hands, based only on what we heard the first day, if we tended to side with the worker or the store. A couple of people said they sided with the worker, but everyone else sided with the store. The judge said he agreed with the majority of us, and he could not understand how the case got so far as to waste everyone's time in the court room.
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