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		sp332 on May 22, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kleiner Perkins Partner Ellen Pao Sues Firm for Ge... The fact that she is pursuing this as a civil case already tells us that they didn't have enough for a criminal one. That just tells me the DA didn't want to touch this one.

protomyth on May 22, 2012 [–]

Which really doesn't give much of an indication of the merits of the case. DA's have budgets (i.e. X number of cases to pursue) too and may think their priorities would best be served by this case remaining in a civil court.

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