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[Dicentra spectabilis]

--- In HPFGU-Feedback at yahoogroups.com, "Przemyslaw Plaskowicki"
<przepla at i...> wrote:

> Sometimes I feel that owners are too much afraid of lawyers. 

We have reason to be, unfortunately.  There is a severe overpopulation
of lawyers in the U.S., and some of them have a tendency to go looking
for ways to make work for themselves.

Furthermore, some people are just plain combative and won't hesitate
to raise a stink just for the sake of raising one.  And some of
*those* people are lawyers to boot.  We get threats from people like
that more often than you'd think.

To make matters worse, the U.S. is infamous for frivolous lawsuits.  A
thief who breaks his leg while looting someone's house can sue the
owner of the house he broke into and WIN.  That's insane, but that's
the Land of Emotional Distress and Home of the Big Settlement for you.
 Don'tcha love America?

So fearing lawsuits and nonsensical interpretations of documents is
unfortunately a very sensible precaution.  HPfGU can't survive a
lawsuit, even if we win.  We just don't have that kind of money in
petty cash, and we *certainly* don't have the emotional stamina to go
through a lawsuit over a book discussion list, for heaven's sake.

--Dicentra, speaking unofficially