I smell a conspiracy.. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2504644.ece
----------------------------------snip The man who sued his dry-cleaner for $65,500,000... He asked the Chungs to do some alterations on the waistbands of the trousers, asking them to let them out by two or three inches. He decided he would take them in for alteration one at a time. Mr Pearson claims that when he took in the grey trousers with red stripes for the $10.50 alteration on 3 May 2005, he was told they would be ready for him to wear when he started work on 6 May. But on 5 May they were not ready to be picked up and when he called back the following morning he was told that the trousers had been misplaced. The loss of the trousers and his inability to wear them for his first proud day in court caused him "mental suffering, inconvenience and discomfort", claims Mr Pearson. ......... Mr Pearson based his $65,462,500 claim on two signs that the Chungs had hung inside their dry-cleaning store. One of the signs read "Satisfaction Guaranteed" while the other said "Same-Day Service". Based on these signs Mr Pearson has argued that he is entitled to $1,500 per violation - that is $1,500 for each of the 120 days that the two signs were in the Chungs' store. (He is also multiplying each violation by three because he is suing Mr and Mrs Chung and their son.) He has added to that $500,000 for "emotional damages" and $542,500 in legal fees, even though he is representing himself. And in an ingenious way to get even more money out of the Chungs, he has asked for $15,000 to cover the cost of hiring a rental car at weekends for the next 10 years. He bases this final element of his sought-for compensation package on the argument that having shown themselves to be unreliable, the Chungs have forced him to drive to an alternative dry-cleaners to take care of his weekly laundry needs for the foreseeable future. -raghu.
