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What is the largest lawsuit ever filed?
Did you guess Apple v. Samsung? SCO taking over the world? Not even close!
This is Anton Purisima v. Au Bon Pain Store, Carepoint Health, Hoboken University Medical Center, Kmart Store 7749, St. Luke's Emergency Dept., New York City Transit Authority, City of New York, NYC MTA, LaGuardia Airport Administration, Amy Caggiula, and Does 1-1000. Case No. 1:14 CV 2755 (S.D.N.Y. filed 4/11/2014).
What did the defendants allegedly do? "Civil rights violations, personal injury, discrimination on national origin, retaliation, harassment, fraud, attempted murder, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and conspiracy to defraud. $2,000 decillion ($2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)", not including punitive damages.
Randall Munroe's What If? analyzed exactly how much money that is, and how it could be repaid (I especially like this answer in the forums). Might just have set the new record for the Biggest Known Demand!
It's the weekend and a slow news day, so here's an opportunity to let your imagination run wild. What suggestions do you have for the plaintiff and/or defendants?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by sgleysti on Saturday May 17 2014, @03:14PM
Some lady's dog bit him on the middle right finger while he was riding a bus. He claims the dog had rabies, she wouldn't give him more information, and the people with her were conspiring against him.
He claims the Au Bon Pain store knowingly overcharges him for coffee relative to other patrons.
He claims LaGuardia Airport denied him services of public accommodation because they wouldn't let him use his rice cooker in the airport.
Chinese people follow him and take pictures of him. These might be the Does 1-1000.
Page 8: apparently he did get a rabies shot.
And it gets repetitive near the end; this guy might be schizotypal.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Jerry Smith on Saturday May 17 2014, @03:42PM
Positive side of this case: it's great material for math lessons.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by pillo on Saturday May 17 2014, @04:19PM
I googled the name out of curiosity - turns out this guy is a serial filer (if that is a word...) ;-)
http://dockets.justia.com/search?query=Anton+Puris ima [justia.com]
Search found 20 filed cases against several casinos, the ex leader of the Chinese Communist Party, the city of New York, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, even random strangers allegedly hitting him while riding bikes. Each of these dismissed in court if not rejected outright.
He must be secretly buying shares of the company supplying paper to the court in NY...
(Score: 2) by jimshatt on Saturday May 17 2014, @11:36PM
Happened to me once. Well, I was the one riding the bike and some dude hit me in the face. I was so flabbergasted, I didn't even realize what happened to me until I was at least 100m away. No point in turning back and giving him a good talking to.
Anyway, isn't there a penalty against frivolous litigation?
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Saturday May 17 2014, @04:32PM
That suggests the following defensive strategy: Convince him (using a proxy he doesn't know is associated with you) that there's serious thought manipulation going on in court rooms, especially targeted on plaintiffs, and if he wants to "remain sane" he has to withdraw his accusations and never sue anyone again. ;-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.