Somewhere recently (was it Rone's journal?) I was reading a thread about that twenty-dollar minimum on civil suits, and a bunch of lawyers pointed out that in practice it never comes up today; there are various statutes that effectively set a higher bar than that. The reasoning by which they are considered constitutional is somewhat above my head (though I suppose it's fortunate they are; $20 in 1789 was a lot of money, but not so much today).
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Re: rounding out the thread
Date: 2006-08-19 01:26 pm (UTC)