[culcune]

California is run by the trial lawyers association, but behind the scenes. I read a recent article about a lawyer in the Bay Area who goes to small businesses, uses their restroom, and if mirrors, sinks, and signage are not to some exact standards, he sues the business under some law the trial lawyers could think up (with the help of the ADA). The shakedowns, er, settlements, are several thousand apiece, and the article was saying how this guy, and a couple others, were using the loophole. And, we are talking like an inch or 1/2 inch where a sign was off, not like a urinal was ignorantly installed and not usable by a short person--that is why the article was published (maybe even a liberal newspaper like the L.A. Times) because of how people (in California, obviously) could try to twist some law, and some do, to create a lawsuit.

I am interested to see if this lawsuit prevails, and how Californians will no longer have a CSC bike to purchase. Not every lawsuit is successful, thank goodness, and lets hope this one isn't, and that CSC has expensive lawyers they had to hire to defend themselves that need to be paid from the losing party...