ViLco wrote:

>
> One thing I really envy to USA and UK is the fact that if I sue someone for
> having told the false against me and ask for a compensation, if I lose the
> trial I have to pay something related to what I asked. In Italy no, one
> never pays if he sues with no reason and loses the trial, that's why almost
> every italian famous journalist has a dozen trials open where somebody sued
> him asking millions of euros in compensation for what the journalist wrote.
> But on the other hand every famous italian newspaper writes lies, plain
> lies, against politicians who are rival to the newspaper's property, which
> is always tied to one political party or another. Lies go out in bold on the
> first page while errata-corriges go out in the last pages...

Speaking of lawsuits..... I was reminded of an old joke:

An American attorney had just finished a guest lecture at a law school
in Italy when an Italian lawyer approached him and asked, "Is it true
that a person can fall down on a sidewalk in your county and then sue
the landowners for lots of money?"

Told that it was true, the lawyer turned to his partner and started
speaking rapidly in Italian. When they stopped, the American attorney
asked if they wanted to go to America to practice law.

"No, no," one replied. "We want to go to America and fall down on
sidewalks."