April 12, 2008

SueEasy Goes Live - Your Class Action Lawsuit Lottery Ticket

Michael Arrington

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SueEasy, a Shangri-La for ambulance chasers, is now live and wreaking litigious havoc on the web. They’ve created, in their own words, a “harmonious and efficient system” for the filing of lawsuits.

The site allows people to file (or search for) grievances, join with others looking for a payout, and eventually get the attention of a first class ambulance chaser to take your case.

An email from the company described the reasons for the delay in launch:

It took us a while to come up with a complete Class Action case repository where affected people can search for a case, read about it, register their complaints if affected, and be in touch with Class Action lawyers in real time. People can suggest new potential Class Actions and others affected can read the initial complaint and join up with their own complaints against that product or service. All this is in addition to our efficient case filing system where users can file a lawsuit in any one of 9 categories and get in touch with the best in legal help. A complete internal messaging system etc has been designed. Tons of other good features inside. We hope to make this a harmonious and efficient system for people to register any grievance and be sure to receive good legal help in the least possible time.

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Azhar

April 12th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

WOW, Just WOW. The funny thing will be if they are funded, actually that is very much possible today. We are heading for a bubble.
Snitty

April 12th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Anyone else think that LeisureSuit would have been a better name for the site?
Ely Fall

April 12th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

I give it 7 days before this site gets sued.
Carl Starrett

April 12th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Ugh…no wonder my profession has a bad reputation.
matt oesterle

April 12th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

only in america.
John McCrea

April 12th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

That sucks. Just what we need, greater efficiency in the formation of class action lawsuits. Ugh.
Chris

April 12th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

Techcrunch watch out
Vlad B

April 12th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

Someone patent one click suing before it’s too late!

Also, a sue your friends facebook app could come handy.
ZiZi

April 12th, 2008 at 4:16 pm

Some company made a banner/flashvideo ad using 10 seconds from a video I made and uploaded on youtube with out my consent. maybe I can use this site to sue him… can I even sue him??
Michael might know if I even can.
Rick

April 12th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

Only in America. Disturbing to say the least.
Tom

April 12th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

Brad Greenspan should love this for SueUniverse (I mean LiveUniverse)
joe

April 12th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

lol vlad. This is indeed sad.
Adam Teece

April 12th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

So how long until they go after TechCrunch for sometimes giving bad reviews on new sites?
CASE #148

April 12th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

iPod screen cracked:
http://www.sueeasy.com/litigan.....detail=148
Peter

April 12th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

It’s a great idea, and about time.

Anything that puts power in the hands of regular people instead of corporations is a good thing for regular people - which is why TechCrunch hates it.

But, on the flip side, I’m sure TechCrunch will be happy to hear that their objectivist hero, Any Rand, is finally making inroads - based on merit, of course - into universities:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.c.....john-galt/

Nothing wrong with payola!
Don Jones

April 12th, 2008 at 4:58 pm

We’re becoming the victim nation…
Robert Seidman

April 12th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

@Peter Huh? Class action suits do nothing to empower “the regular people”, they just make lawyers a lot of money. Class action suits ARE big business for law firms that are effectively “corporations”. the individual participants (the regular people you speak of) of the class always get, relatively speaking, very little. All this winds up usually doing is making something the regular people pay for a little more expensive than it was before.

If that’s “power to the people”, who needs it!
David

April 12th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

Interesting idea. The site is kind of ugly though.

This might make it a bit easier to get some class actions started, but it probably won’t significantly increase the amount of class actions filed, since there are enough plaintiffs’ attorneys that probably most of the universe of viable cases (that are more than shakedowns) end up actually getting filed.
Adam

April 12th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

A clear sign of the apocalypse. Can they sue me for that?
Rainmaker

April 12th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

Nice commercials though..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2dK4jfJ_c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFwaW5Y1MAk
Dan Schulz

April 12th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

Case # 666, The Sheeple vs. The People

Look, I was involved in a class action lawsuit once - as a class representative, it was my duty to protect the interests of the affected class members (in my case, over 50,000 affected individuals). I can tell you right now that only three parties are going to profit from this site - the site owners, the lawyers, and (maybe) the class representatives. The actual class members - the ones who need to be compensated the most - are going to see two things and two things only.

And Jack left town.

This makes me sick. Thanks for alerting your readers to this mockery of justice, Michael.
Sean

April 12th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Yeah gee that’s just what this country needs, an easier way to file lawsuits. Great!
Tort1

April 12th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

Class actions are a critical tool used by individual citizens to deter violations of individual rights and corporate misconduct involving product defects, financial fraud, toxic pollution, civil rights violations, and other abuses. They are vital for permitting consumers to gain access to the courts where a company may have profited by defrauding large numbers of people. They also streamline the litigation process, avoiding the filing of many different lawsuits where the same kinds of issues are presented. With corporate fraud and abuse at all-time high, perhaps at no moment in history have class actions been more important than they are now.

CLASS ACTIONS SAVE LIVES AND PROTECT OUR RIGHTS

Class actions have historically been among the most powerful tools to secure justice in America. This country would be a very different place without them. Brown vs. Board of Education, which outlawed school segregation and set the stage for the entire civil rights movement, was a class action lawsuit. So are the cases by shareholders against Enron and WorldCom over corporate fraud. The cases portrayed in the movies “Erin Brockovich,” involving toxic pollution, and “North Country,” dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace, were class actions. The President of the United States was a recent beneficiary of a class action lawsuit over defective bulletproof vests used by the secret service and purchased for use by President and Laura Bush. That case was brought by police departments after the fatal shooting of a California police officer.
Tort1

April 12th, 2008 at 7:58 pm

CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS AND THE MYTH OF EXCESSIVE ATTORNEYS’ FEES
Some try to argue that class action cases normally result in excessive fees for attorneys. This notion was disputed by an extremely comprehensive study by professors Theodore Eisenberg, Cornell Law School and Geoffrey P. Miller, New York University School of Law, who looked at 370 class action lawsuits that settled between 1993 and 2002.” 1 Below are some of the major findings of that Report, as compiled by consumer group Public Citizen 2:

* Median attorneys’ fees were only 21.9 percent of the recovery in the studied cases – less than the typical one-third fee in personal injury cases.
* Attorneys’ fees (as a percentage of recoveries) were higher in federal court than in state court, contrary to claims of critics of the state class action system.
* Median attorneys’ fees in consumer class action suits, the kind often attacked by “tort reformers,” were only 13 percent.
* Attorneys’ fees have a strong correlation with the risk of pursuing a case.
* Client recovery and fee amount are strongly correlated. But as client recovery increases, the fee percentage for attorneys actually decreases, which provides more money for the clients.

1. Theodore Eisenberg, Cornell Law School and Geoffrey P. Miller, New York University School of Law, “Attorney Fees in Class Action Settlements: An Empirical Study,” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (March 2004).

2. Public Citizen, “Attorneys’ Fees and Plaintiffs’ Recoveries in Class Action Cases: Myths Obscure Facts,” found at http://209.85.165.104/search?q.....=firefox-a
nick

April 12th, 2008 at 8:22 pm

Evil.

Until we have a “loser pays” law like the rest of the civilized world, it’s just legalized extortion.
ZiZi

April 12th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

any website that helps you sue SprintPcs cant be all that evil.
Scott W.

April 12th, 2008 at 8:50 pm

This is stupid and will just harm our economy even further. A bunch of irate cry babies coming together to wreak havoc on our nations’ corporations, increasing product costs, slowing down innovation. Stupid.
Scott W.

April 12th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

Also doesn’t everyone know that lawyers are the only ones who win in class action lawsuits? Unless you consider a $20 voucher good for free popcorn to be a tremendous windfall for yourself.
topsitemedia

April 12th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

its official, WEB 2.0 is coming to an end when they run out of ideas and decide to run a “sue you” site.
Scott W.

April 12th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

Yeah! Join this class action!
http://sueeasy.com/litigants.p.....detail=233
Joey

April 12th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

I hope they make a Facebook app: “6 of your friends joined this class action lawsuit! Click here to join!”
Sammy

April 12th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

@17 and others:

A distinction needs to be made between the concept of class action suit and the actual mechanics involved.

Arguing that the concept of a class action lawsuit is without merit seems to be missing the woods for the trees - it empowers individuals, and is the only counter-balance available against the might of a large corporation.

The mechanics need fixing. Maybe some reforms that put an upper limit on how much the lawyers can make in a case - either absolute or as a percentage. And some proportionality between the representatives and the other suit members. Simple checks and balances.

Michael - how come you don’t have an opinion?
Steve

April 12th, 2008 at 10:45 pm

Amazing,
I guess from the looks of it it’s 2 boys aged around 21
who go to law school but oen of them happens to know “programming” and as
wanna-be lawyers they make this ugly site.

Take notice as they state “Web 2.0 medium” and no full contact details.
Ashley

April 13th, 2008 at 1:21 am

My two cents.. it’s brilliant!

It’s about time the so-called “Web 2.0″ websites started solving REAL WORLD ISSUES. How many different ways can you “connect with friends” or “upload videos and mobile clips”!!?? For Goddsake.

How many times have you been wronged and just let it slide? Besides I don’t see anywhere on the site, where it says you HAVE to file a Class Action. They seem to be resolving genuine grievances.
Joe T

April 13th, 2008 at 9:07 am

They should seriously consider changing their name to something more… serious.

I can just picture a client having to answer the question of how he met his lawyers in a deposition…

Not to mention the effect this name will probably have on a typical jury. The name “SueEasy” embodies the worst excesses of the McMarketing of lawsuits, i.e., a litigation mill crossed with a sleazy dot-com.

And don’t think their involvement and their name wouldn’t be discoverable and that it wouldn’t become an issue in the case.
TCBlogs

April 13th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

Any website that sues those Cell phone companies, frozen xbox manufacturer, Enrons, Tyco, SUV rollovers cant be all that bad.

Ask those people who are adversely affected by these giants. I think there should be a check and balance here. And this website provides that.

my two cents.
LawExpert

April 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

Blame the corporations for putting out those dangerous products in the market, blame the lawyers who charge exorbitant fees,

Why blame a mom who lost a limb when her SUV rolled over while driving her daughter to soccer practice ??

Why blame a senior citizen widow who had it all life savings invested in Enron for her Golden years?
BarksdaleAvon

April 13th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

Hey y’all Erin brokowich DID happen you know. It aint just a movie yo.
Protect ya neck!
LawExpert

April 14th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

Kill the messenger
PropJoe

April 14th, 2008 at 7:40 pm

Hmm.. I agree with #34.

Checks and balances are needed true. I reckon this could be evolution, rather than bust of the “bubble”. Are we finally seeing a more humanistic spawn of Web 2.0, as opposed to superficial startups of the past?