Also no lawyer wants 30% of virtually zero actual damages. If you aren’t willing to just spend ludicrous amounts of your own money that you’ll never recover, you better have a case with substantial statutory damages or an excellent shot at a jury awarding punitive damages.
Federal civil rights cases are supposed to cover legal expenses, but the judge has to decide if they think the case was important enough to warrant it. So we might not be awarded the legal expenses.
This brings up a really big point though. If the lawyers don't want it because they can't make money, and the judges don't want it because it's not important enough, then who stands up for our rights? Do we even really have them if they can be ignored?
