ML-Implode News - Richard Zombeck: Below the Fold: Credit Card Robo-Signers, Bogus Debt and Comcast Blocks a Site?

``Courts across the country are flooded with tens of thousands of cases. Most of the defendants represent themselves and are unable to afford legal representation. Judge Noach Dear, a civil court judge in Brooklyn, presided over as many as 100 such cases a day. A vast majority of the cases have no merit and no supporting evidence - it's a numbers game.
As Ira Metrick, a New Jersey consumer and foreclosure defense attorney puts it, "It's cheaper for the credit card companies to lose a few cases when they are questioned, compared to the expense of doing every case the right way."

Remember the bean counters and the Pinto? Why fix a whole line of exploding cars when only a few families are going to burn to death? It's cheaper to settle the law suits than it is to keep everyone safe. ''

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Richard Zombeck: Below the Fold: Credit Card Robo-Signers, Bogus Debt and Comcast Blocks a Site?