That wasn't winning, that was bullying and tricking
the weak into settling before a judge could hear the
case. Not once have they gone to court, at
all, and they only fooled their victims into coughing up
token three and four-figure amounts in a small minority of
cases. The vast majority of suits were abandoned, yes
abandoned, when they realized they totally screwed
up the evidence or the intended victim refused to roll over.

Oddly enough, all of their "victories" were over people who
couldn't even afford to go to court to get the suits thrown
out, even though a vast majority of such "suits" would
have fallen apart under the merest glance of a real judge.
Isn't that a marvelous coincidence? When tort reform
comes up for debate again, these muggings will provide
plenty of discussion points.

This streak of avoiding the courts will end shortly.
One of their intended victims is forcing the suit into court
and she is going to win. The money is in place and the
experts have prepared their submissions. Once this suit is
given the treatment it deserves, other victims will have
some teeth and claws of their own to defend themselves with.

As for your "fat, ugly, greedy, scumbag Dem/Rep Politians",
ask (for example) Senator Holling from Utah why he
is spending so much time representing the media
industries in California, Tennessee and New York, inventing
ever more fanciful "laws" which never get passed, and why
does he spend so much time in the company of industry
lobbyists who probably couldn't find Utah on a map
without help from a gradeschooler. He probably won't
want to talk about how rich that particular lobby is,
aside from parrotting whatever talking points on that
subject they have thoughtfully provided in advance.