Karl Kemp Antiques' lawsuit against four homeless people (see here) makes it onto the front page of the New York Daily News today.
The case provides another litigation lesson: before you bring a lawsuit, think about any potential ridicule it will open you up to. In that regard, the decision to ask for $1 million in damages would seem to have been a tactical mistake here. See, for example, yesterday's Wall Street Journal Best of the Web (last item) ("[T]here's something ridiculous about ... suing street vagrants and demanding monetary damages. Most of the homeless, we'd venture to say, do not carry liability insurance").
