Courtroom Drama, American Style

A LAWSUIT BETWEEN HOOTERS, Craigslist, and an escort service is about as exciting as it gets. Good old fashioned corporate litigation, with plenty of courtroom brawling jet flying hot shot lawyers, and big time corporate money, and who knows what nefarious acts of espionage and sabotage behind the scenes. At least, that's the way it always is in John Grisham novels, and this Hooter's lawsuit is a real life John Grisham novel. Plus, its all about sex. Sex, big corporate money, and a lawsuit! How much more American can you get? Some "escort service" in Florida was trying to hire Hooter's girls, and using Craigslist as an advertising medium. Hooters claims copyright infringement; that the excort service was stealing from Hooters by trying to hire away Hooters employees, and the craigslist was complicit. The excort services claims that it was only offering employment to a targeted pool of potential employees, and stealing from nobody. Hooters, which is a private company, has filed similar lawsuits dozens times, enough such that the company and its owneres almost seems like some paranoid filer of frivolous lawsuits. This one seems questionable. If we're lucky, there will be no out of court settlement, and we'll all be treated to some reall courtroom drama, big money versus big money, a corporate cock fight, maybe even good enough to show highlights on Fox and CNN. In any good John Grisham novel, ther is no out of courst settlement; the litigants are all revved up and ready to go, and the courtroom fight is a reall doozy, both in and out of court. So let's keep it that way in real life. Reality legal TV. Daily televised courtroom drama involving big money, corporations, sex, and what the hell, drugs. Why not? Its an idea whose time has come. Has anybody else thought of it yet?