Re:That's how discovery works in litigation
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Confession: I am a lawyer
That's true as far as it goes. Most of the costs of large-scale litigation are related to discovery, and endless and vitriolic fights about what will and won't be allowed in. EVERYONE starts out with the everything-under-the-sun requests, and then, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars, and months and months of time it gets winnowed down to the at-least-marginally-relevant.
And as far as the Coca-Cola recipe example, there's a whole subset of fights (and procedural rules) about whether trade secret information can be discovered, and under what conditions, etc., etc. Those fights are the nastiest fights in most lawsuits between technology corporations. I could dig up the Federal and CA state rules on that, but I think everyone would rather I didn't.
I'm not sure where you get this being a gay recruiting effort, and even if it is, so what. The law of supply and demand works just about as effectively in dating as it does in commerce. Speaking as a man on the all-straight, all-the-time channel, who isn't dating a lot right now, the more gay men there are, the better it is for me. I would think that most people on this thread complaining about the lack of women would feel the same way.
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Confession: I am a lawyer
That's true as far as it goes. Most of the costs of large-scale litigation are related to discovery, and endless and vitriolic fights about what will and won't be allowed in. EVERYONE starts out with the everything-under-the-sun requests, and then, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars, and months and months of time it gets winnowed down to the at-least-marginally-relevant.
And as far as the Coca-Cola recipe example, there's a whole subset of fights (and procedural rules) about whether trade secret information can be discovered, and under what conditions, etc., etc. Those fights are the nastiest fights in most lawsuits between technology corporations. I could dig up the Federal and CA state rules on that, but I think everyone would rather I didn't.
I'm not sure where you get this being a gay recruiting effort, and even if it is, so what. The law of supply and demand works just about as effectively in dating as it does in commerce. Speaking as a man on the all-straight, all-the-time channel, who isn't dating a lot right now, the more gay men there are, the better it is for me. I would think that most people on this thread complaining about the lack of women would feel the same way.
Stewball