How much are you willing to spend to pursue justice and fairness?

i spent a quarter mil over 5 years and then chickened out on a final appearance on the stand. Because of that, although I won my case, I lost my money, except for a peanuts settlement. I will never feel right with my lawyer until I pay him every dime because he took a great risk with me and deserved better from his client.

And this was all over protecting property rights to a 5’ x 50’ strip of garden that my neighbors to the east coveted. It cost more than the condo the garden was attached to. But the garden was why I bought the place.

Why did you chicken out? Why did you keep pushing for it before that? What was going on inside you? Was it feelings that pushed you, or something more analytical?

They had taken de facto my garden before the filed a frivolous suit against me. I had both nothing to lose and everything to lose, as any settlement of their ten million dollar nuisance suit against me was surrender of my property rights along with loss of any expended monies along the way. Their intent was to claim the rights de juris to the land they had claimed right to de facto. .A counter-suit on the real issues [not on squirting her with a water hose and posting protest signs] was the only option. There was no way out but to fight my way to a jury. And they made it as long and as expensive as they could to try to break me.

As to why I chickened out, I will never know how I failed myself that day. It was tricky, I had to face exposure to questioning from someone acting pro se and then questioning again from the opposing attorney, but I still should have gone ahead as my case was so solid, the jury was behind me, and the judge seemed to be also. All I can come up with is a fear of success.

done been said

I would pursue it to the point where the costs make it no longer worthwhile. There’s no point spending $1000 to get $500 back. What a waste of money.

My family has been trying to pursue justice. My grandmother who was in a nursing home was left lying in her bed to die without any attempt to take her to a hospital. There are many sensative details here about the case which I will not discuss but it seems we’re having a hard time getting any laywers to even take the case. I was looking to hire an lawyer at an hourly rate to take the case at this point. My grandmother was only in the nursing home for 5 months before passing away. It also seems the nursing home added a bunch of bogus charges that claim they treated her for conditions we knew she never had. We know this because we visited her almost on a daily basis. Now the nursing home wants to take my gram’s house to cover the costs of treating her for all of these so-called conditions which we’re certain she never had.

We’re not sure if it’s worth the effort to fight them (county nursing home) anymore. It amazes me how other people can win lawsuits for spilling hot coffee on themselves and other bogus reasons but not when someone close to you loses their life because of somebody elses negligence.

::sigh::

@Paradox I don’t want to dismiss the severity of your situation (it sounds horrible and I hope you are able to find a lawyer to take it) but I’m always amazed at how many people dismiss the hot coffee suit. As far as I know, it was decided correctly. The coffee was amazingly hot, unbelievably hot, absurdly hot….

I don’t want to get too far off topic though. As for justice, if it was just about money, I’d never spend more than I lost. (There’s some obvious difficulty here because of sunk cost problems, but thats not really the point). There might be times I’d spend more, though it would have to be about more than money.