tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post6789857838818799726..comments2024-03-22T08:01:16.236-04:00Comments on Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: Fair and fraudulentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-40298024861044741642010-05-16T15:28:29.688-04:002010-05-16T15:28:29.688-04:00Litigation is certainly expensive. A heavily liti...Litigation is certainly expensive. A heavily litigated Lanham Act case like this one could easily see a million dollars in lawyers' fees, possibly for each party, though the defendants may have shared some costs. In theory, the private costs should generate public benefit, and when there are truly false claims that can actually be true. I do think there's a general benefit to having a truthfulness requirement in advertising, so that we can largely trust the claims we see, but there is certainly a lot of expense in enforcing that requirement as well.RThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00850241338827117087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764290.post-16473193663648846282010-05-16T15:08:10.920-04:002010-05-16T15:08:10.920-04:00I'm reading some of your posts and I am thinki...I'm reading some of your posts and I am thinking that I would not want to be involved in any of these disputes in any way, shape or form.<br /><br />They must take up a lot of people's time, and since time is a lawyer's stock in trade, they must likewise be very expensive. <br /><br />What would be nice is if you could give us some idea of relative costs & benefits involved in these things.Chuck Pergielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14473338620167201696noreply@blogger.com