"Roger (K8RI)" wrote in message
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:45:56 -0800 (PST), "Robert M. Gary"
wrote:


Again you are dealing with juries. Going to trial means you can't
predict the results. That is one reason so many companies are moving
to binding arbitration; because they get frustrated at the inconstancy
of jury trials.

A large, local company was sued for billions in the breast implant
issue. The lawyers pushing the case made more than the entire
corporation gross per year. In the end it was far easier and much
cheaper to just give them a couple Billion dollars than to fight junk
science with true science. The average juror is easily mislead by junk
science as the real thing. It only takes a convincing presentation by
a so called expert to sway the jury.

Does it really matter in a rigged court system?

Gallileo's Revenge Junk Science in the Courtroom by Peter W Huber
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/gallileo.htm