<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jmartin:
Have you also considered the shortsightedness (and lack of cost effectiveness) of using up valuable tax dollars on such a claim since this is a public court you are considering? Seems to me there are better uses of taxpayer money, but I don't think lawyers ever consider this.
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Most civil courts in the U.S. generally require someone pay court costs.
Additionally, the tax money spent on maintaining small claims courts is not so much an investment in the individual cases as much as they provide overall benefits to the society at large. In particular, they provide a disincentive for persons (or corporations) to violate the law in dealings as well as providing parties that believe themselves to have been wronged their day in court.
But I think we are straying off topic.