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Please - consider the costs to the Jury

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 12:03 PM EST

They are paid insignificant in comparison to any job they may otherwise work.

As a result, just flip a coin. That'll give the same random effects while being far less of a burden on the Jury.

Don't even bother with discovery, just take in the original claim, the defenses and counter-claim, and counter-defenses, then start flipping:

Judge: On the validity of patent '521 [flip], the patent is valid.

Judge: On the validity of patent '125 [flip], the patent is invalid.

Judge: On the defendant-counterclaim-plaintiffs defense of non-infringement of '521 [flip], the defense is not valid. ...

Judge: Final result for damages, the defendant-counterclaim-plaintiff owes the plaintiff-counterclaim-defendant a sum of $250 million, the plaintiff-counterclaim-defendant owes the defendant-counterclaim-plaintiff a sum of $400 million. Case closed! Nah... no Judge would go for it. They're smart enough to realize they could be replaced by a crazy-8 ball and would be out of a job.

RAS

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Well in the UK 85% judgements considered reasonable, given the evidence (prosecution & defence) - Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 12:56 PM EST
- Well in the UK 85% judgements considered reasonable, given the evidence (prosecution & defence) - Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 01:08 PM EST
  - Funny the stuff you find when searching for something else... JURY RESEARCH AND IMPROPRIETY - Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 01:23 PM EST
Please - consider the costs to the Jury - Authored by: rcsteiner on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 01:20 PM EST
- Please - consider the costs to the Jury - Authored by: micheas on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 07:23 PM EST
  - Please - consider the costs to the Jury - Authored by: rcsteiner on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 02:50 PM EST
- Please - consider the costs to the Jury - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 01:56 AM EST
- UK Juror's expenses - Authored by: cricketjeff on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 05:41 AM EST
- Please - consider the costs to the Jury - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 01:51 PM EST
  - Please - consider the costs to the Jury - Authored by: Wol on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 05:07 PM EST

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