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The lawsuit claims that Dr. Kanokporn Tangsuan suffered a fatal allergic reaction after eating at a Disney Springs restaurant despite repeatedly informing the waiter of her severe allergy.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I've seen this Black Mirror.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (4 children)

How is this not a criminal matter

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The estate should file the claim. They wronged her, not the husband. By having the estate file suit, that would negate anything the husband may have done.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ugh, how revolting. for a while there, while they were fighting desantis, i forgot how evil disney can be.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Evil begets evil, Mr. president. (Extra points if you can name the movie)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I am a meat popsicle

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's the one where they are in the future, and have aliens, and a bunch of greedy people. It has a hero in it, that makes a stand for what is right, killing a bunch of aliens.

Battlefield Earth, right?

(/s, please don't kill me, Corbin)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Bzzzz!

BZZZZZZZZT!!!!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

for a gen-xer like me, that's easy.

leeloo dallas multipass

ZZZZ!!!

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[–] [email protected] 200 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Arbitration clauses need to be deemed illegal.

Especially ones that are mandatory for employment

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Arbitration has its place in B2B contracts.

With consumers or employees? Absolutely not

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)

or at the absolute bare fucking minimum be opt-in only, instead of "opt out by sending us a handwritten letter through snail mail within 45 minutes of this notice." the shit offers less than zero benefit to the consumer and basically lets corporations get away with murder

nothing will ever change to make them go away

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[–] [email protected] 405 points 1 month ago (11 children)

"Disney is calling for the lawsuit to be dismissed because her husband signed up for a one-month trial of the Disney+ streaming service years prior.

The company says signing up for the trial requires users to arbitrate all disputes with the company."

Some lawyers truly are scum.

[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This could be a precedent-setting case. These fuckers better not get away with this.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

All corporate lawyers are scum.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Very much nottheonion material. Something like

”Disney Legal Team Argues that Agreeing to the Terms & Conditions of Their Streaming Platform Releases The Company of Any and All Potential Liability in Shellfish Poisonings”

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Fucking hell

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago

Maybe we can finally claw these arbitration powers back?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Arguing over health/death via a technicality is one of the lowest of lows.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This shouldn't even be a technicality here. If this goes through and a TOS is universally binding to your life then the court system just died. Also they can put other ridiculous things in there like you owe them the subscription money in perpetuity even if you decide to uninstall the app. They'll argue the consideration is there because you can re-install at any time.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If a lawyer is scum, then so is the one paying them.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

I do hope whoever suggested that this is a legitimate cause to dismiss the case dies of an intestinal blockage caused by hemorrhoids. Just a thing I hope.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
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