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New App Lets You 'Sue Anyone By Pressing a Button' (vice.com)
Jason Koebler writes: Do Not Pay, a free service that launched in the iOS App store today, uses artificial intelligence to help people win up to $25,000 in small claims court. It's the latest project from 21-year-old Stanford senior Joshua Browder, whose service previously allowed people to fight parking tickets or sue Equifax; now, the app has streamlined the process. It's the "first ever service to sue anyone (in all 3,000 counties in 50 states) by pressing a button."
Pressing it now!
The Sovereign Citizen movement is going to love this.
Own nothing.
Control everything.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
So, do you just start the app, point it at someone and push?
Can I sue a mega-corp that's incorporated in another state in my state?
I recall briefly looking into this after the equifax breach, and suing them myself in small claims court. It came down to a matter of whether I had the right jurisdiction to sue them, since they aren't incorporated in my home state, and I'm not going to fly to another state just to sue them.
I just tried to download it (I am thinking of suing people). Unfortunately my iPhone is a 4s and it needs iOS 11.0. How can I sue anyone if I can't even afford to upgrade my 4s? Truly the system is stacked against people like me.
you have to feed in all sorts of details and mail the documents to the appropriate place and you may end up being called to court... but with the push of a button it seems anyone can start the process
Yes, Hamerica is a great country. For lawyers, maybe.
... to sue Ben Affleck . I think my rights might still not be fully realized.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Does the United States really need a service that makes suing people easier? Automation that removes "natural" limits of process rates (like the time/effort to file a suit) often cause disruption in other parts of the system that haven't evolved to handle the load that can be presented once the "natural" limit is removed. Or perhaps this was the intent?
I wonder if there will be counter-sue for barrarty feature.
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While I really admire their parking ticket and flight refund finder....I'm not so high on this one.
Yes, because the ability to sue people at the press of an app button is what our legal system needed.
-Styopa
and promote suing now.
I'm so tired of businesses thinking they can screw-over customers & get away with it. I'd also like to sue the telemarketer that keeps calling my cellphone every day, even though I told them "Put me on you Do Not Call list". Per US Law if they continue calling, then they can be fined in small claims.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Great, I can't wait to see people being sued for tortious litigation.
Go ahead, click that button on that free service, and then wait until you get your ass handed to you by a judge.
I recommend that Joshua Browder be the first target of this, because he's basically created a tool to submit torts which have a good chance of having no legal basis. So one hopes he has some liability here.
Will not use.
Anyone else find this ironic that its designed to help the underserved of society while simultaneously limiting thier audience to only people who can afford iphones?
This is so awesome I can't even begin to describe. I can't wait to SUE ALL THE PEOPLE for every little thing I can imagine. Forget civility, compromise, and working things out together, just go STRAIGHT TO COURT! What could be more American than abandoning 5000 years of societal development and making the nuclear option the only option???
WAY TO GO AMERICA!!! YOU ARE NOW OFFICIALLY GREAT AGAIN!!!
- Team America: World Police
I couldn't help but hear this as soon as i read the title
There's an app for that!
To sue someone, you must serve them with the court papers to let them know you are suing them. Does it hire someone for you?
Gross.
with the way arbitration has been enshrined in law (and upheld by our Supreme Court in clear defiance to due process protections in the constitution thanks to a pro-corporate SCOTUS) it doesn't help much. I guess you can sue random Joes but that's generally pretty worthless unless you're a big company looking to suppress something, and in that case what use do you have for an app? You've got lawyers on retainer.
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when you bought virtually anything of substance from a merchant will have an arbitration clause. If you're in the US our Congress just passed a law that makes arbitration legally binding (it used to be you couldn't sign away due process rights). Our Supreme Court upheld the law thanks to a conservative majority.
Sorry my friend, but this app is useless as a tool against businesses.... The moral of the story is elections have consequences.
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Do Not Pay, a free service that launched in the iOS App store today, uses artificial intelligence to help people win up to $25,000 in small claims court.
"New appity app app app! With just one click, you could win up $25,000!"
People don't realize how mortal they are.
I'll probably never travel to the US again.
I filed against my former landlord for keeping my deposit without a walk through, violating both the lease and local rental law. I was awarded the value of the deposit, plus 200% by the judge. Since this scofflaw has decided to ignore the court's judgement, I have to serve him again before I can get any discovery of his bank accounts or place a lien on his property. He's had a fence built so process servers can't get to his front door without trespassing. Next step, the servers want to charge me $125/hour to stake out his place. He's now moved out and appears to be living with relatives, so I can't track him down. The burden on the victor can be too high for justice to actually be served.
I hafta like, press a BUTTON?
WHY cant it jus be liek... automatic?
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
SECRETS OF THE TEMPLE: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country. William Greider (1988?)
There is a quote in that book, a little gem before the full text. I forget the exact wording. A Big Powerful Banker Type Person was asked, "Why don't you or you colleges run for political office?"
His reply:
"When it is in our interest to be in power, we are in power. When it is not in our interest to be in power, we are not in power."
IIRC this is for BS parking tickets and such, not lawsuits as a service, unless they pivoted.
Unless it's in the same sense that a typewriter lets you "sue anyone" by pushing buttons:
After that, Do Not Pay draws up documents specific to that legal area, and fills in the specific details. Just print it out, mail it to the courthouse
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Wouldn't this be considered "unauthorized practice of law"? I know if South Carolina that is not legal: https://www.scbar.org/public/get-legal-help/problems-your-lawyer/unauthorized-practice-of-law-committee/ . IANAL, but I work for some.
I feel dirty just for saying this, but couldn't you sell the debt to some scumbag collection agency? That way you at least get the price of a burger and fries and he gets years of amusing phone calls.
I am suing this kid because he is giving me anxiety now that anyone can sue me using this app.
If you can show you have made attempts to serve the person and their location is unknown you could do it through a Posting or Publication depending on your State's laws.