@TangledHyphae@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world • 1 year agoU.S. egg producers conspired to fix prices from 2004 to 2008, a federal jury ruledapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1532arrow-down13cross-posted to: brainworms@lemm.ee
arrow-up1529arrow-down1external-linkU.S. egg producers conspired to fix prices from 2004 to 2008, a federal jury ruledapnews.com@TangledHyphae@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world • 1 year agomessage-square26fedilinkcross-posted to: brainworms@lemm.ee
minus-squareMarxism-FennekinismlinkfedilinkEnglish29•edit-21 year ago Company steals a thousand dollars each from their customers. Customers file class action lawsuit. Judge rules the company has to pay a million dollars even though they stole a total of ten million. Lawyers take half, the customers each get two nickles and a pop-up middle finger novelty toy. GOTO 1 Class action lawsuits are utterly broken which is why companies fuck over customers with zero hesitation.
minus-squareNougatlinkfedilink10•1 year agoDon’t you know you’re supposed to number your lines in BASIC by tens, in case you need to insert something in the middle? You’re going to end up having to renumber all your lines!
Company steals a thousand dollars each from their customers.
Customers file class action lawsuit.
Judge rules the company has to pay a million dollars even though they stole a total of ten million.
Lawyers take half, the customers each get two nickles and a pop-up middle finger novelty toy.
GOTO 1
Class action lawsuits are utterly broken which is why companies fuck over customers with zero hesitation.
Don’t you know you’re supposed to number your lines in BASIC by tens, in case you need to insert something in the middle? You’re going to end up having to renumber all your lines!