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 why is it broken?  normies dont generally know the deets, but suspect it to be to be true 
 I'm not ready to be disbarred yet.  That said, it's fundamentally about the inability to properly advise clients when Judge's aren't held accountable for not doing their jobs.  Many do try, but they are just people after all.  Learning to leverage the picadillos of juries and judges to circumvent, rather than ensure the law is followed, sustained, or improved, is the real profession.  This is a really unnuanced take and obviously just my opnion.  But, it comes down to disparity in resources.  Put another way, if you want to see actually good lawyering and mostly good judge-ing, you have to look at big suits like Google v. Microsoft where the best lawyers are on the job with unlimited resources and Judges who know the world is watching.  In the case of Hatfield v. McCoy, the judge may just decide to "Do whats right" in their opinion rather than what the law requires because he knows the litigants can't afford an appeal and no one is paying attention.