Warp wrote:
>   So if a company sues you and you have no money to hire a lawyer, you lose
> automatically regardless of whether you are guilty or not?

Or a lawyer will take it on contingency. Usually what you do in that case, 
assuming the company suing you doesn't have a good reason to do so, is you 
counter-sue the company for your expenses in defending the suit.

In any case, I don't know for sure how that all works. I just know it isn't 
in the constitution. :-)

Remember that all this "the company sues you" is state laws, so there are at 
least 53 different ways it can play out (50 states, district of columbia, 
federal rules that override state laws, and whatever territories we still 
have that aren't states).

But yeah, if you're too broke to hire a lawyer, chances are good you're too 
broke to be worth suing, too.  Plus, if the amount of money is small enough 
(like, $1000-$10,000 is the range of limits) then neither side gets to have 
a lawyer. That's "small claims court" you might have heard mentioned.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
     Is God willing to prevent phrogams, but not able?
       Then he is not omnipotent.
     Is he able, but not willing, to prevent phrogams?
       Then he is malevolent.

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