A Good Argument for Tort Reform

I still have an old AOL email address and recently received this notice about a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit. It seems that another group of California lawyers have found themselves a $250K gravy train.

This lawsuit is about the fact that AOL tacked advertisements at the bottom of emails (footers) that AOL subscribers sent out. Seems to have been a fairly common occurrence with free email accounts from a lot of providers for many years, so it's beyond me as to why this "class" of AOL subscribers has anything to complain about. If approved, the settlement will result in AOL telling users they can "opt out" of the promotional footers, about $100K in donations to some "charities," and $250K for the lawyers. What's wrong with this picture?

We seem to have too many lawyers that don't have enough productive work to keep them occupied.