Lawsuits are a good and usefull tool when used properly.

If you have truely been wronged, then fine, file a lawsuite, but if you are just made and want to get money or get even, then you sould be JAILED for filing a frivelous lawsuite.

The McD's coffee lawsuit is a bad one to site for frivilous.

Sure she should not have placed the coffee between her legs, but the facts are that location had been cited numerous times for having the temp of the coffee too high for economic reasons. They had the temp set to an unsafe level because it made the coffee last longer and thus it would not turn bitter so fast meaning they would not have to throw out as much and saving them money. The woman that got burned had to have a historectomy as a result of the severe burns. If they had the coffee at a reaonable temperature, then she might have had some uncomfortable burns to her genitals, but she would not have required a historectomy.

As for sueing Honda, I don't know what this person's claims are, but if he has a truly defective car that is getting terrible mileage, he might have a valid case. If he is just un happy that he can seem to get EPA ratings while driving 5 miles each way to work at 90 MPH, then he should be jailed for wasting tax payer's money.

I have been involved in lawsuits, on both sides of the table, and some were needed, and some were not. But it boils down to taking responsibilty for one's OWN actions. If we would all do that, we would not need lawyers.

As an aside, I am against putting caps on medical malpractice suits, unless you also strip the doctor of their liscence. Most families involved in those cases don't want the money, but they want to prevent the doctor from ruining other's lives. Without a way to cleanup the bad doctors we must cause the bad doctor's insurance rates to become unaffordable through excessive judgements. Caps on judgements + revoking liscence = good, no caps + no policeing of doctors = not good, Caps on judgement + no policing of doctors = terrible. That is one of the reasons our health care system is in shambles.

Off soap box now!