BLAW 3175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Fide, Pepsico
27 Apr 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Business Law 3175 Section 002
Professor DeAngelis
Lecture #19
- “Frivolous Lawsuit”
- AKA jackpot justicae
- Without merit
- No factual or legal issues to be resolved
- Cases with bona fide factual disputes are not “frivolous”
- Plaintiff says that a defendant ran a red light and the defendant said that it
was green
- Insignificant or trivial
- No real injury
- Has to cost business a lot of money
- It is not easy money
- Large businesses would not want to set a precedent that they are easily
willing to pay ridiculous claims
- Has to be over 50,000,000 a year
- This is what the class predicted
- Has to be a civil case
- Not a criminal case
- Has to be a US case
Document Summary
No factual or legal issues to be resolved. Cases with bona fide factual disputes are not frivolous . Plaintiff says that a defendant ran a red light and the defendant said that it was green. Has to cost business a lot of money. Large businesses would not want to set a precedent that they are easily willing to pay ridiculous claims. Has to be over 50,000,000 a year. It reports on frivolous cases like they went through. Whorps the cases to make them seem ridiculous. Things on the internet remain there weather they are true or not. Media portrayal : the lawsuit is reported all over the internet as man sues pepsi for not giving him a jet , pepsi owes customer a plane , and pepsi plane giveaway . It calls attention to this abnormal case and makes it appear that the pepsi was responsible to pay compensation due to the lawsuit.
