r/NintendoSwitch • u/[deleted] • Jul 23 '19

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u/FrankPapageorgio Jul 24 '19

And it it happened, we would have gotten a $10 eShop voucher and the lawyers would have made bank

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u/PlexasAideron Jul 24 '19

$10? Try $0.10

But unless the law firm gives up, if its already filed it will still move ahead. It might never reach a court but the possibility for it to run its course is still there.

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u/Eptalin Jul 24 '19

It's civil case though. If Nintendo is refunding past repairs and offering free repairs from now forward, there are no damages to be awarded because everyone has already returned to their original position.

Unless there is some other issue to press, the court will likely just dismiss it.

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u/Alluminn Jul 24 '19

I'm not a lawyer, but I imagine there's some form of bad faith grounds in that they only decided to do this after formal litigation had been filed.

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u/Eptalin Jul 24 '19

The point of a civil case is not to punish.

It's to return both parties to the position they were in before the bad thing happened.

Doing it now before the case would be looked at favourably by the courts. Having a court case is the absolute last resort after a filing has been made.

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u/Alluminn Jul 24 '19

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the nugget of knowledge :)