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Lamest Lawsuit EVER?

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Cliffs Notes:

Photographer screws up last 15 minutes of wedding, Groom sues. 8 years after the fact! This despite the fact that they're divorced, she's back in Latvia and he has no clue how to get in touch with her. He wants the cost of the service, plus
(and this is the fun part)

$48,000 to recreate the wedding, complete with his ex wife and guests, to be shot by a different photographer.

I thought it was funny right up until the part where the company he's suing has spent more than that on legal fees already. THEY should sue HIM at this point.

Does greed know no bounds?
 
From the article:
Mr. Remis, who said at his deposition that he has not been employed since 2008, and his lawyer, Frederick R. McGowen, did not return messages left on their phones.

Hmmm... wonder if that has anything to do with the lawsuit.
 
I thought lawsuits had to be brought in a timely manner. How can eight years possibly be considered timely? Lawyers amongst us, what say you?
 
Does he have an explanation for how that is supposed to work out? Interpol warrant against hoid ex-wife so that she can be found and subsequently be sued to play her part in the video?

Also, inquiring minds want to know just how the last 15 minutes of the video were not up to par. Was she supposed to say "no" or something? (Inquiring minds can't be bothered to read the article, they are far more interested in making their cheap shot...)
 
Sir Robin Goodfellow said:
I thought lawsuits had to be brought in a timely manner. How can eight years possibly be considered timely?
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Lawsuits can be brought anytime, but they have be brought in a timely manner (as befits the claim) to succeed.

e: In any event, the plaintiff filed just short of the 6-year statutory limitation for fraud. See sec. A4 and A2 here. The former applies the statute of limitations, and the latter mentions the relevant dates.
 
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Well, granted, it's pretty darned lame, but I'm not sure about the lamest ever. That's a pretty tall order. And there are some creative smacktards out there.

E.g., Allen Ray Heckard who thought people might confuse him with Michael Jordan, so he sued Michael Jordan AND Nike for over 400 million dollars, EACH.

E.g., since we're on a conjurer's site, how can I not mention Christopher Roller, who sued David Blaine and David Copperfield to reveal to him how their tricks work or pay him royalties. See, Roller thought he IS God, and if Blaine and Copperfield defy the laws of physics they're using godly powers, i.e., stealing power from Roller. Yeah, that's the kind of thing that gives other schizophrenics a bad name ;)

E.g., Mary Ubaudi who sued Mazda for not providing instructions in cars on how to put on a seatbelt. She actually was asked to testify that she never wore a seatbelt, never was in an airplane, and is genuinely too stupid to figure out on her own how to insert that tab in a slot. Which she did.

E.g., Shawn Perkins who was hit by lightning in the parking lot of an amusement park, then sued the park for not warning him to not be outside in a thunderstorm.

E.g., Caesar Barber, a real poster kid for being morbidly obese, and having the diabetes and heart problems that so often come with that territory, sued several fast food chains for basically letting him eat there and not warning him that it's not healthy. (Err, no, it's not one hamburger that's unhealthy, it's eating so many of them that you weigh almost twice the normal for your height that's a killer.)

E.g., Kathleen Ann McCormick who manages to make the above one look sane by comparison. She was not only obese, but a smoker, and had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, AND a family history of heart problems. You'd think that alone would be warning to most people. After finally getting a heart attack, she's sued 8 doctors and the government for not doing enough to convince her to stop ruining her own body. Apparently just telling her that she should, wasn't enough.

E.g., the Bird family who sued a hospital for emotional distress, for seeing the doctors rush their mom into emergency. You can't make that kind of thing up.

Etc.

Let's face it, when you have hundreds of millions of people and enough time, someone will do something so retarded that it tops any expectations :p
 
In all fairness, though, most of those lawsuits are thrown out or lose. Actually thinking that a court would see things along the lines of, "I AM God, and Copperfield is stealing divine power from Me" is no longer even game theory, it's just being a smacktard.
 
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The problem is that the cost of litigation can ruin the defendant even when the suit is thrown so far out of court it lands on Mars...

There is no penality, except in some federal cases, for collecting the costs of a frivilous lawsuit, it seems. Some few venues may vary. A lawyer should answer that.
 
Wowbagger said:
They could do it with CG. (This also means no photographer is even necessary: All you do is keep fiddling with the characters until you get exactly the shot you want, then run a final render of that!)
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Uncanny Valley- "The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics[1] and 3D computer animation,[2][3] which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers"

He would then sue for "response of revulsion".
 
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This is one of things that is so asinine that I had to wonder if there was something I was missing when I first read about it.
 
Sir Robin Goodfellow said:
I thought lawsuits had to be brought in a timely manner. How can eight years possibly be considered timely? Lawyers amongst us, what say you?
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IANAL, but IIRC the issue was that he brought the suit just a few days before the statute of limitations would have kicked in. In my opinion this is just greed. I hope the photographer countersues and at least gets costs back, but preferably also lost time and some compensation for a suit that's basically harassment.
 
Sir Robin Goodfellow said:
I thought lawsuits had to be brought in a timely manner. How can eight years possibly be considered timely? Lawyers amongst us, what say you?
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IANAL, however, I was told this by a lawyer regarding my own ongoing lawsuit against (Acme) due to an X preventing a Y from Z which resulted in moi being sent to be sewn up and held overnight in an ER*: the standard time in which to file a lawsuit for personal injury is 2 years from the event itself, and the closer to the event the suit is filed, the better chances of the plaintiff's winning said lawsuit.

This is, of course, all FWIW.



*Yes, being cryptic is necessary for my personal reasons.
 
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