[15998] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI Bulletin 098-008 | New Registration Agreement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Zawada)
Mon Apr 6 10:57:32 1998
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 07:09:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: Paul Zawada <zawada@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: Paul Zawada <zawada@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199804060420.XAA05066@dilbert.ais.net>
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, James Rishaw wrote:
>
> Scott Bradner wrote:
> >
> > minus the lawyer's fee & distribution expenses - I'd guess that means
> > you will get about $0.14 for each domain.
>
> If a class action suit against NSI were won, I doubt NSI would not be able to
> deduct legal expenses from the judgement against them.
I think Scott was referring to the lawyers representing the Class, not the
defendants. Typically in cases like this, the class' lawyers make a
boatload of money while the members of the class get back a small fraction
of what they had originally lost. In other cases the losses suffered
by each member of the class are minimal when taken individually... Did
you buy a computer monitor between 1991 and 1995? Did you collect your
$13? Your lawyers got $6 Million. (The especially nasty cases are the
ones where the lawyers negotioate a nice hefty fee for themselves
while the class ends up with a bunch of coupons for products or services
they didn't want in the first place...)
Some cynics would alledge that some lawyers form class-action suits to
make a lot of money- not because they want to see some large injustice
corrected...
--zawada
(All IMHO...)
Paul J. Zawada, RCDD | Senior Network Engineer
zawada@ncsa.uiuc.edu | National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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