There is Justice After All: $54 Million Pants Lawsuit Thrown Out.

Hope the drycleaner is counter-sueing

The judge made the man who sued them pay their legal bills as well as a fine to them for all the distress he caused. They didn’t even have to counter-sue.

All I wanted was for *somebody* associated with the case to say whether or not the plaintiff was mentally ill. I would imagine that he was and that everyone involved was too polite to say so. It is my understanding that he broke into tears during his opening statement when he touched upon the emotional impact of having lost his pants.

@elizabeth: At the most, the dry cleaner should pay for a new pair of pants. That’s what, about $50? Suing for $54000000 is just greedy, and about as bad as the RIAA wanting $10000 dollars per song, while claiming ‘irreparable damage’.

Their legal fees are in the tens of thousands – there is also something wrong with U.S.Lawyers fees when a case that gets thrown out can cost so much, imagine if it had gone to trial how much more it would have cost?

Thank goodness! But seriously, that case should never have gone as far as it did. We need to take the approach of the Japanese legal system, which has made lawsuits so difficult to file that only very serious cases ever make it to this point.

the description of him actually in tears while testifying certainly leads me to agree that he is mentally ill. Making it all the more horrifying that he’s a judge.