Well if that isn't incentive to sue PepsiCo for something, I don't know what is.

/I invented..."artificial flavoring"

Anybody want to buy a used secretary? I hear she's available, and only made one little mistake during her career ;)

No amount of Aquafina is worth $1.26 billion.

It takes some mighty big douches at Pepsi to blame a single secretary for a billion dollar error. Why would a single secretary have that kind of power in the first place? 1) that's insane, B.) no farking way, and III.) that's nuts.

PepsiCo did not immediately respond to a Journal Sentinel request for comment, but company spokesman Joe Jacuzzi told the Associated Press the company feels it has been denied due process and wants the opportunity to defend itself, although it acknowledges an "internal process issue."

An "internal process issue" excuse would be laughed out of court if an individual person tried it.

The same should apply here, but unfortunately, the USA is a plutocracy, so PepsiCo will succeed.

Those are the two luckiest soon to be dead men in history..

//did i say dead? I mean..."mysterious disappearance"

AntiNorm: The same should apply here, but unfortunately, the USA is a plutocracy, so PepsiCo will succeed.

For 1.26 Billion, whatever you might think of large corporations, they deserve their day in court.

I invented water.

Seriously, I combined hydrogen and oxygen using a spark, and I got water! Where's my dough?

MacG: It takes some mighty big douches at Pepsi to blame a single secretary for a billion dollar error. Why would a single secretary have that kind of power in the first place? 1) that's insane, B.) no farking way, and III.) that's nuts.

Yeah I don't understand how one person had that much power and a secretary to boot.

No one invents Joan Crawford!

-commence random beatings.

Alacritous: For 1.26 Billion, whatever you might think of large corporations, they deserve their day in court.

This case centers around whether or not they were given that opportunity. The two locals are claiming that they had indeed been given the opportunity, but that they ignored it. If that's what happened, then tough shiat -- cough up the $1.26B. If it's not what happened, then of course they deserve their day in court.

(Of course, the truth usually ends up being somewhere in the middle.)

AntiNorm: The two locals are claiming that they had indeed been given the opportunity, but that they ignored it. If that's what happened, then tough shiat -- cough up the $1.26B.

Yes, because corporations are in the habit of just pissing away 1.26 BILLION dollars just like that..

brap: No one invents Joan Crawford!

I've heard that Joan Crawford has risen from the grave.

GAT_00: I've heard that Joan Crawford has risen from the grave.

No, I have it on good authority that they got her with a headshot from a silver bullet, then drove a wooden stake into her heart.

Liquids go into a bottle. Purified drinking water is a liquid. Takes a real farking genius to put those two together.

sarty: Well if that isn't incentive to sue PepsiCo for something, I don't know what is.

/I invented..."artificial flavoring"

I hate to ever say this, but over in one.

Alacritous: For 1.26 Billion, whatever you might think of large corporations, they deserve their day in court.

They had their day in court. They chose not to show up.

Alacritous: they deserve their day in court.

If it turns out they were served papers, then that's pretty much that. As long as it can be demonstrated the papers were served properly, it's Pepsi's fark up.

In other words, pepsi's legal team thought it was a frivolous suit that would be thrown out before it even hit the judge's desk, forgetting that you still have to show up to hear the judge laugh them out of court..

A show of arrogance at best.

kill them all

1) pepsi for getting caught with their pants down
2) the people who thought this was a trade secret/patentable idea
3) the judge for not throwing this out of court
4) the lawyers who saw this as a fun way to make money

/god I hate this kind of bullshti lawsuits

One of the reasons for PepsiCo's delayed response, according to court documents, was that a secretary in PepsiCo's legal department was so busy she did not tell anyone about a letter regarding the case or enter it into a log that tracks such matters.

Does this really sound right to anyone? I mean he's a legal secretary do you really just leave a lawsuit letter on your desk and forget about it? You have to sign for it when you get served. It's not like he confused it with junk mail and tossed it.

On top of that if your legal department is that slammed that the person can't take 10 minutes and route a letter to the proper authority you need to pay the $75,000 a year (or whatever) and hire another freaking secretary. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than $1.26 billion.

WhyteRaven74: Alacritous: they deserve their day in court.

If it turns out they were served papers, then that's pretty much that. As long as it can be demonstrated the papers were served properly, it's Pepsi's fark up.

That's really not the way it works if there's an excusable neglect defense shown and a potentially viable (meritorious) defense. Both are likely true here.

And if you don't believe this is exactly how mistakes get made by corporate counsel, would you like me to describe the unusual series of mistakes that led the CEO of Bank One (the current CEO of Chase), to be ordered to appear in a court (at my request) because someone would not give my client a car title and no one else would read the mail and prior court orders. (It got their attention. And yes, the CEO said I had a pair of "brass ones." God bless him.)

wejash: excusable neglect defense shown

And this is why I need to not hit add comment before I make sure I'm done writing and phrasing things right. I was going to add on if it was done right then it's Pepsi's job to show they have a legit excuse, they can't just come along going "We meant to show up! We really really did!".

would not give my client a car title

I've heard stories like that before :)

namatad: kill them all

1) pepsi for getting caught with their pants down
2) the people who thought this was a trade secret/patentable idea
3) the judge for not throwing this out of court
4) the lawyers who saw this as a fun way to make money

/god I hate this kind of bullshti lawsuits

So you know nothing specific about the case, but you are willing to kill everyone.

Nice.

Darth_Lukecash: namatad: kill them all

1) pepsi for getting caught with their pants down
2) the people who thought this was a trade secret/patentable idea
3) the judge for not throwing this out of court
4) the lawyers who saw this as a fun way to make money

/god I hate this kind of bullshti lawsuits

So you know nothing specific about the case, but you are willing to kill everyone.

Nice.

If knee jerking was not a figure of speech, half of Farker's would have metal knees by now.