Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
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Re: Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
#2This article has persuaded me to never sell anything on Craigslist. Okay, the odds of running into a troll are tiny, but for a few bucks, it's just not worth the risk. Maybe Craigslist and similar sites need to start offering some kind of free insurance policy against trolls.
Re: Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
#3Would be nice to have a 'loser pays' court system for civil trials. These kinds of trolls would go away quickly.
Re: Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
#4Would be nice to have a 'loser pays' court system for civil trials. These kinds of trolls would go away quickly.
Yes, like most of the rest of the world.
But the trial lawyers send tons of money to one of the parties, so our current legal system stays in place.
Re: Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
#5On a unrelated note: every time I read an article on USA Today's website it magically disappears and then it takes me a minute to realize that the entire thing was in a modal and clicking in the blank space on the right or left makes the modal go away.
What an atrocious user experience.
Re: Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
#6> Special Judge J. Jeffrey Edens issued a ruling. He awarded Zavodnik a judgment of $30,044.07 for breach of contract.
Holy cow. This guy needs to be fired immediately. That is beyond gross negligence.
Re: Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
#7He threw away the printer, so any judge should throw away his case.
Re: Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
#8I remember what a lawyer said in a case that I served as juror, "the US justice system is not perfect but it's the best justice system in the world."
Re: Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
#9If I'm reading correctly, the key bit is:
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Because Costello did not respond to all three requests for admissions within 30 days of receiving them, and did not ask for an extension of time, as required by Indiana trial rules, Costello admitted to the liabilities and damages by default. He also did not appear at a July 2013 hearing, according to court records.
Costello said he never received the requests for admissions and was not notified of the hearing.
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If Costello just ignored these requests for some reason, maybe thinking they'd go away or whatever, that this is kind of on him.
If, though, Zavodnik has figured out a way to serve people requests without them actually knowing about it... Well, that seems like a much larger legal loophole that needs closing.
But without digging into this, the whole article falls apart. If someone sues you and you don't respond, you risk a default judgment against you.
Re: Man sued for $30K over $40 printer he sold on Craigslist
#10I remember what a lawyer said in a case that I served as juror, "the US justice system is not perfect but it's the best justice system in the world."
My friends who have sat on juries and grand juries would gag at that thought. The way criminal trials work for the poor is a sham.