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Regarding all these court cases. Does anyone *know* for sure that all these cases survived the lengthy appeals process and stood? I thought not. The media loves to report the initial judgement and then leave everyone with the impression that's what the courts decided. The courts don't work that way. There is a lengthy appeals process that actually works pretty darn well all things considered. Just to throw out a perhaps contrerversial example, the massive tort judgement against the tobacco companies in Florida was just overturned on appeal. Even if one or two of these silly cases got all the way through to the end of the judicial process that would be just one example, which is a terrible way to make decisions about what the courts should be like. There is loads of evidence that juries actually award *less* in tort damages then judges acting without juries (for example).