>After much deliberation she decided to pay, as it would have cost more in legal fees to fight.<p>Justice is not a right, it's a product you buy, and wealthy people can afford more and better lawyers. Wealthy people are better, and deserve more of anything they want.<p>It's yet another neo-feudalism example. This woman is a peasant, and the company is the lord, and what happened was a shake down. And the government is the serf who assisted the lord with this extortion. In no possible way, taking the story at face value, was she intending to commit fraud. The government has abandoned its duty to serve and protect human persons first and foremost, and the long term trust loss as a result of this corruption is not good for civil society.