• jimmyjoners@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t even punitive, but just the cost of doing business. Protip, if the fine wouldn’t stop you from making the same business decision again, it’s not really a fine.

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      1 year ago

      Let’s hope that all of these:

      a setback for the company as it seeks to settle thousands of similar cases

      come to similar results then.

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        1 year ago

        If they have 10,000 lawsuits that result in the same fine, it might actually have an impact on their bottom line.

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          Did no one RTFA? The lawsuits have cost them 4.5 billion dollars. Hence the bankruptcy. I would consider that “an impact on their bottom line”. Isn’t this what we want? For them to be punished so much they go out of businesses?