On the east coast (NYC in particular), things are a bit more sane in some ways and a bit crazier in others.
Of course, this is all inside baseball. As a practical matter, it's HIGHLY LIKELY that this will never get before a judge. No corporation is going to send their CEO to court to argue a case and if they can't send a lawyer to small claims, they will just submit a motion to move the case to regular civil court because reasons.
Of course, if that happens, then they've already lost. It will be FAR more expensive to litigate in plain old civil court.
For the record, IANAL but I've hired and fired a bunch of them and done this dance a few times already on both sides of the coin. Bunch of lawyer friends too. One of them was just on TV doing a press conference for his client, a Navy SEAL.
On the east coast (NYC in particular), things are a bit more sane in some ways and a bit crazier in others.
Of course, this is all inside baseball. As a practical matter, it's HIGHLY LIKELY that this will never get before a judge. No corporation is going to send their CEO to court to argue a case and if they can't send a lawyer to small claims, they will just submit a motion to move the case to regular civil court because reasons.
Of course, if that happens, then they've already lost. It will be FAR more expensive to litigate in plain old civil court.
For the record, IANAL but I've hired and fired a bunch of them and done this dance a few times already on both sides of the coin. Bunch of lawyer friends too. One of them was just on TV doing a press conference for his client, a Navy SEAL.
YMMV.