Civil Lawsuits Rochester MN
Civil Lawsuits
Legal news you can use excerpted from Court TV's Cradle to Grave Legal Survival Guide, the definitive consumer legal reference book soon to be published by Little, Brown and Company. WHAT KINDS OF THINGS SHOULD A PERSON CONSIDER BEFORE PURSUING A CIVIL LAWSUIT?
There are a few important legal questions you should ask. First of all, do you have a valid claim? A valid claim is one where the grievance can be resolved by legal action. For instance, say you decide to take a cruise and the ship's captain gets a little tipsy one night, running the ship aground.
You are thrown from your bed, breaking your arm and suffering a concussion. You would have a pretty good negligence case against the captain and the cruise company. But say instead that it was cloudy for the whole week of your cruise, thwarting your planned dream tan. Unless the cruise company had made a specific guarantee of sunny weather (which is very unlikely), your disappointment has no legal remedy.
Next, do you have standing? To initiate a lawsuit you must have standing, which means you must be sufficiently affected by the matter at hand. In other words, you can't sue just because something bad happens. Also, something bad must happen to you. For instance, you can't sue your local paper for libeling your best friend. You also can't sue a local developer just because a building he designed is excruciatingly ugly. If, however, the building is next door to your home and would block your ligh...
