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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 18 2014, @10:07AM
He's simply using the RIAA's special math for calculating damages.
Maybe the dog had rabies and maybe by going to the ER he missed the only chance he had to meet his perfect woman; obviously their descendants would have won every single drawing of the national lottery for the next 42 million years or so. => $2 undecillion loss.