Dale told me about this story a week or two ago. Both of us thought the judge guy was a bit off his rocker in his demands, and were glad when his case got thrown out of court.
Basically, this judge was utilizing a family-run dry cleaner's. He went to have some suit pants altered and the family somehow misplaced them. So, he sued them for over $50 million. The amount was supposedly justifiable because now he had to go x number of miles up the road to another dry cleaner's, so in addition to the suit costs, he had to pay for mileage because he no longer trusted the closest dry cleaner's.
Yeah, that's what I said: "WTF?!"
Now, the family-run business tried to help and to make up for the loss, and in fact later on found the pants, but still the judge would not drop it. So they went on to court with it.
His case was thrown out of court. Well, currently, he's being looked at for potential de-judgement, meaning, he might lose his job because he made a bad judgement about whether he should sue like that or not. It was considered frivolous.
I pity him the job loss, but am cheering for the system that threw out the case. The job part of the story is here:
Moral to the story is this. Sue the pants off someone for losing your pants, and you might lose more than your pants. Go, judicial system.
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