“I demand $5 million because my chocolate pumpkin didn’t have a mouth!”
A lot of people think lawyers, as a class, are sleaze artists, slimy types who speak out of both sides of their mouths, etc., etc. Here’s an example.
Hershey’s makes Reese’s candy. Reese makes some Halloween-themed candy. It’s their usual peanut butter and chocolate, shaped roughly like a pumpkin.
Along comes this shyster and his client trying to hold up Hershey’s for (at least!) $5 million, claiming that this woman suffered “untold harm” (!) because the picture on the package didn’t look like the piece of Reese’s candy inside the package (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hershey-facing-lawsuit-misleading-reeses-halloween-candy-packaging-rcna131695).
Undoubtedly this is nothing but a shakedown. I buy those candies all the time and never noticed the candies themselves don’t match the picture on the wrapper. I mean, SO WHAT? They’re also mad that Reese’s footballs don’t have white lacing as depicted on the wrapper.
You know these goniffs will happily settle out of court, wheelbarrow full of money, no questions asked, the lawsuit goes away. But meanwhile, there it is–another thing that someone, at least, should be ashamed of.