Most definitely.
“Now make NYC pay for the entire cost of the suit.
We need a federal “loser pays” system for these sorts of things.”
That will never happen. Something like that would greatly discourage lawsuits and thus impact negatively the income of lawyers.
The legal system is a closed system. The Legislature is comprised mostly of lowyers (spelling error but I liked the way it came out), Prosecutors are lowyers, Defense are lowyers, and Judges are former lowyers. There is now way that the legislature would pass or the courts allow a law that would be so negative the the legal profession.