65 million dollar pants lawsuit

This story won't die, and rightfully so.  Some tort reform advocates point to this case as further abuse by evil trial lawyers.  Please.  Every trial lawyer I know, every legal blog I've read, and the American Association for Justice (formally the ATLA, American Trial Lawyers Association) have ridiculed and expressed outrage at the lawsuit.  I believe the AAJ even offered to provide free defense, and made a public statement decrying such an absurd lawsuit.  Law does not always jibe with the common sense we feel should prevail, but this is one situation where I feel confident the legal result will match what common sense dictates, namely the suit gets tossed and this judge who filed it face sanctions for making a mockery of the legal system.

Here is a post from the Atlanta Injury Law & Civil Litigation Blog that summarizes how I'd estimate 99.9% of the legal profession views this absurd lawsuit. Please, do not even try to make the crazy actions of a clearly misguided administrative law judge the fault of "trial lawyers", whether you hate us or not.  If you do, then I suppose you have to lump all astronauts with that woman who wore depends and travelled hours to avenge her jealous love for another astronaut!

-will