She waddled with a $6,000 bill which she will try to convince some gullible fools to pay for her because oppression or she's a wronged activist.
Hell she might just get it covered by pushing people to settle with ton more of frivolous lawsuits against people.
Also again Yaniv has been found by some to be quite racist so her getting to cause harm might be seen as a win for Yaniv.
The Law is not fine if even when they won the Salon's ultimately lost out over it. The damages if they're lucky will cover legal fees at best and not lost earnings from being unable to operate or lost time due to having to deal with the bullshit lawsuit. Laws should be designed so they're not open to such easy abuse.
Never once claimed Yaniv is a good person, was actually treated unfairly nor that she was using the law properly. Not disagreeing with anything you've said on that account. The issue is was it the
law or the
person at fault here. We could argue the issue lies with the judicial system that
enforces the law, but to fault the law is to blame the bullet and not the guy who fired the gun.
My question is: what language (generically, not asking that you type out pages and pages of legalese) would you like to see that would "fix" the law for you? Again, human rights laws are not the only ones abused by overly litigious assholes seeking a payday, and in this case, the law got it right; Yaniv did NOT win her suits and, in fact, was ordered to pay something back.
Will you concede that there are similar problems with laws that award people for damages from, say, a small business? Perhaps the janitor neglected to put down a "Wet Floor" sign whilst mopping, and my elderly granny slips and breaks her hip? Is it not also feasible that I, an able-bodied young(ish) man might see that same wet floor with no sign,
pretend to fall, suffer a minor bruise or contusion, then sue said small business? If they're tired up with me in courts for months or years and suffer losses, by your standard, doesn't that mean the law is improperly written? Point being, to say these newer, more inclusive human rights laws have language that's dramatically different from older, established ones is selective-sighted.
Two objective facts: no law is perfect and some people will be assholes; lumping the onus of responsibility on a group of people for the innate flaws of the rule of law is exclusionary, and in a time when people
are discriminated against, from passive-aggressive denials of service to outright hate speech and violence, I, for one, am glad the imperfect law is there so when someone breaks it, they can be held accountable.