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so , yes you can sue when workplace safety is not met or cared about. and seeing as the government would love nothing better then to try to "clean up" this industry she might havesome people "helping" her out with this lawsuit.



First things first: I'm assuming this is a contingency-fee arrangement, so her attorney is motivated to spend as little as possible on the case (since the costs come out of the lawyer's pocket) and to settle rather than go to trial. If Lara could afford to pay for the case her lawyer's motivations would be the opposite: drag out a trial and run up the costs. Everything should be looked at from the lawyer’s perspective because the lawyer is out to make money for itself, not Lara.

Her side may be better off avoiding accepting government assistance, if any is offered. It opens up the possibility for defense to really drag out evidence gathering by insisting on access to all of the government evidence via cross-examination (costs her lawyer money). The government may also not want to see their activities or evidence made public early and may not want their people on the witness stand under oath.

I’ve never been involved with something like this but based on other experience I would guess that TT’s and Lara’s sides will do a mini-presentation to each other to show how strong their cases are and then they will haggle over a settlement to avoid a trial. Unless someone is stupid this is where it should end.

Unless Lara performed with Darren in a shoot other than TT it’s hard to see Lara suing another company at the same time. A judge isn’t likely to let her simultaneously sue many companies along with Evasive because the facts (and therefore defense) are too different for TT and the other defendants.

Lara may need to sue Darren along with TT even if Darren has no money. Lara’s side may well be worried if there’s evidence she was hooking bareback – that might put doubt in juror’s minds. Lara’s side might want to do a genetic fingerprint on both Darren and Lara to show they are related cases. CA law might not let them compel a witness to give blood unless the witness is a defendant. I have no idea.

The best way to guess at how this works is to look at previous cases. For example there have been “occupational” HIV infections via needle-stick by medical workers. Did any of these any of these cases result in a trial, and on what basis was the trial decided? There’s probably a lot of other relevant case law.

The AIM quarantine list shows this order of exposure from Darren: Jessica Dee on 3/23, Lara Rox on 3/24 and Meriesa Arroyo on 3/30. Unless TT can find contact between Lara and Darren earlier than Jessica it won’t work to try to suggest Lara might have been the source (unless TT gets “lucky” and can show via genetic fingerprints that Jessica is an unrelated case).
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