Jonawan@lemmy.zip to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoBike lane projects keep running into the same foe: a Manhattan lawyer and convicted securities fraudster who has sued New York City five timesnyc.streetsblog.orgexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: micromobility@lemmy.world
arrow-up1130arrow-down1external-linkBike lane projects keep running into the same foe: a Manhattan lawyer and convicted securities fraudster who has sued New York City five timesnyc.streetsblog.orgJonawan@lemmy.zip to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square15linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: micromobility@lemmy.world
minus-squareBlibly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·9 days agoOur legal system desperately needs a “stop frivolously suing us or we’ll jail you” clause.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 days agoThe English common law system has the crime of barratry. Only a few states have adopted it into statutory law, and sadly, New York is not one of them.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 days agoI have never heard the term ‘barratry’ before. Thanks for teaching me something new today.
minus-squarelIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation
Our legal system desperately needs a “stop frivolously suing us or we’ll jail you” clause.
The English common law system has the crime of barratry. Only a few states have adopted it into statutory law, and sadly, New York is not one of them.
I have never heard the term ‘barratry’ before.
Thanks for teaching me something new today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation