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Dustlawyer

(10,494 posts)
5. Too bad it doesn't work that way. I have been watching people and businesses struggling and
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 01:04 AM
Jul 2014

going under waiting for Justice in the BP a Deepwater case. They have to sit and watch the phony BP propaganda commercials everyday for over 4 years telling everyone everything is just GREAT down on the Gulf Coast! They now watch as BP claims to be a victim of the Agreement they drafted because a few phony claims get by with the system they set up. The media will not report that this ABUSIVE Agreement denies 10's of thousands of valid claims because they did not financially recover in 2011 to fit the arbitrary formula for recovery. They also fail to mention the $600,000,000 reasons they gave the Judge's friends that were appointed on the Plaintiff's Steering Committee if the Class Settlement goes through to completion. Now most of the claims are locked in the Class Settlement and approximately 75% are being denied. Oh and by the way, the few that were paid under the old formula, BP is coming after them for their money back! The victims that opted out of the Class Settlement have to wait until it is over before they are allowed to even BEGIN their litigation because..., well because of no particular reason given by the Judge at all.

It is not your fault that you didn't know what we go through to seek justice for our clients. The media always portray us as the bad guys, Ambulance Chasers and what not. I am not putting us all up for sainthood for sure, we have our fair share of greedy assholes, like the PSC in the Deepwater case. But there are hundreds of Erin Brockovich's and attorneys such as the ones you see in the movies like "Class Action." Do they want to make money, sure, but they also want to make a difference. Look up Barry Scheck and The Innocence Project for another example. Want to help, next time they come screaming for more tort reform tell them to shove it up their corporate ass! Thanks!

"It's about stopping police abuses" Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2014 #1
Justice delayed is justice denied, except for the patient lawyers raking in $7 million.....fees Fred Sanders Jul 2014 #2
Years of legal work by dozens of lawyer and their staffs, reams of documents, depositions, Dustlawyer Jul 2014 #3
Sorry Bickle Jul 2014 #4
Too bad it doesn't work that way. I have been watching people and businesses struggling and Dustlawyer Jul 2014 #5
I know what you go through Bickle Jul 2014 #8
I don't think it was the plaintiffs' attorneys that dragged this one out. /nt Ash_F Jul 2014 #6
It's our extremely wasteful system Bickle Jul 2014 #7
pertinent question reddread Jul 2014 #10
Was I Bickle Jul 2014 #11
I guess thats an answer-"the beating?" I salute your command of the facts reddread Jul 2014 #13
At the sight? No. In town actually doing things! Yes Bickle Jul 2014 #14
must have been awfully busy ever since reddread Jul 2014 #15
I am well aware of protest suppression Bickle Jul 2014 #16
:) reddread Jul 2014 #17
100,000 people marched I. North Carolina Bickle Jul 2014 #18
wtfever reddread Jul 2014 #19
Ah typical Bickle Jul 2014 #20
wanna be terrorist reddread Jul 2014 #21
Post removed Post removed Jul 2014 #25
interesting results reddread Jul 2014 #26
There is a lot of waste for sure, but also we have to have safe guards (as much as you can) Dustlawyer Jul 2014 #12
Having been through the system, I can somewhat agree. Ash_F Jul 2014 #24
Righteous rant! Hassin Bin Sober Jul 2014 #9
Lawyers getting a third is the low end of the standard range rocktivity Jul 2014 #23
Victory! tabasco Jul 2014 #22
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