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nirty28
Then my question is what prevents people from filing lawsuits, for punitive amounts, and without prior notice? If the defendants have to shoulder the lawyer fee and court fees wholesale, there is absolutely no check against plaintiffs overloading the court with trivial lawsuits. In fact, lawyers would be encouraging people to file trivial lawsuits so that they can make reasonable lawyer fee. I don't see cable companies or landlords filing lawsuits left and right so I assume there is something in the system which makes it not in their best interest, economically, to not to.