I'm surprised that 2 cases didn't make the list:
The "Highway Man Case", which I had to learn about in law school, involved 1 highwayman suing his partner in crime over an unequal division of the spoils. This led to the harshest punishment for frivolous pleading ever: the learned judge ordered both plaintiff and defendant hanged, and both their lawyers deported as indentured servants :rofl:
The other case is the old lady who sued McDonalds for making hot coffee. As she was leaving the drive-through window, she spilled it in her lap and got scalded. She actually WON like $20,000,000 for that, and ever since all fast food coffee cups have had warning labels about hot contents. :WTF: Would she have sued if the coffee had been cold?
I met her lawyer shortly afterwards because my law school had him come give a lecture on this case as an example to us all. He said that one of his key points was showing that the coffee in her cup was nearly 300^F. I nearly puked about that. For them as don't know thermodynamics, it's flat impossible to have what is almost all water that hot at ambient atmospheric pressure. If it was that hot, she'd have had a cup of steam. I hammered the lawyer on this. But what made me sick was that not only was he able to convince the judge and the 12 idiots on the jury about it, but nobody in the whole McDonalds organization brought this up, either. :stupidsmack:
This is the type of idiots setting public policy. All judges and damn near all legislators are lawyers, so by definition they know nothing of the real world. And most people are too stupid to realize this. It really makes me hope for a global pandemic or nuclear annihilation as a remedial measure :suicide:
