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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 7699922" data-attributes="member: 9789">A lot of responses are bringing up or indirectly hint at the common misconception that most lawsuits are frivolous.  You always tend to hear about those, so people tend to overestimate how often they happen - but remember, like shark attacks and airplane crashes, you hear about them so much because they are so exceptional.  You don't tend to hear about the lawsuits which have merit just like you don't tend to hear about the car crashes in your area - because hundreds of them happen every day.When it comes to companies pushing the bounds of what they can get out of labor, the history of the US is full of excellent examples of why we have and need labor laws and what makes them so important.  And yes:  sometimes companies still push as far as they believe they can, and it's up to the judiciary to determine if they have overstepped the (typically) slightly murky or sometimes otherwise untested lines.  Lawmakers do what they can with the law to cover as many situations as possible, but there are always new situations coming up that redefine things and push in places the lawmakers didn't expect.  All of this is perfectly normal and it's how this country works.  No one - none of the parties involved in these broad examples - are necessarily acting in anything other than good faith.  That's why we have the legal system:  to sort all these things out and to maintain fairness as much as possible when doing so.So to immediately assume that a lawsuit is frivolous is relatively naive.  It's also relatively naive to assume that the answer is obvious:  if it were obvious, it (in all likelihood) wouldn't have come to a lawsuit.  (It's also relatively naive to assume that a lawsuit only happened because of something that has occurred very recently, or that negotiations weren't first attempted - even potentially multiple times over multiple years - before a lawsuit was filled.  Lawsuits of this scope are always expensive and time consuming, and it's always the final course of action - not the first or second.)Personally, regardless of how I might feel about WotC, the plaintiffs' case seems to have merit to me and certainly they are welcome to use the laws of this land to prove whether or not they are correct.</blockquote>

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