I hear it all the time in movies and in the news, but never fully understand what it means.
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The judicial system tries to impartially decide who’s right or wrong in a legal dispute, and in an ideal world, if anyone brings accusations to court which are wrong, the court would just throw them out. But the court can’t know up front which claims are right or wrong.
So even if someone’s accusations don’t have any merit, the court *has* to investigate them, and sometimes the accused has to spend a lot of time, energy and legal fees in order to defend themselves and prove they have no merit. And sometimes, the evidence available just doesn’t lend itself to a good proof anyway. So: Even if you’ve done nothing wrong, sometimes someone with a lot of legal knowledge might know just the right unfounded claims to make, in just the right way, to burden you with a bunch of expenses you can’t afford.
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