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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."
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?
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
... 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
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
Will not use.
- 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?
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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Most big corporations are incorporated in Delaware, and have their actual headquarters somewhere else, e.g. Silicon Valley. In general a state court or federal court will accept jurisdiction if there is "significant" commercial presence within the region.
Obviously it has to be possible or there would not be favorite courts for, say, plaintiffs filing suits over patent violations.
If you, say, bought a widget via Amazon from a non-big business in another state, I have my doubts that things will work out for you though.
(IANAL, of course.)
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.
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.
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 think it would all be considered pro se representation since it isn't actually giving legal advice necessarily just providing the forms and scripts for one to do it themselves. Technically even if they did have an issue with that, if an attorney provided that initial information (which I would assume they did though TFA didn't mention it specifically) it would be perfectly fine I believe. As always, I am not an attorney, merely a surfer of the interwebs that half-assedly can parse legal jargon. I may be wrong, but I would think this is all fine as long as he doesn't try to add anything that would be disallowed from pro se representation such as class action lawsuits or arguing before the Supreme Court (not thinking that one is likely feasible anyway...).
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.