Funniest Ever Google Lawsuit September 21, 2007
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Google, like all big companies, spends quite a bit on maintaining a team of underfed, sharply dressed, legal rottweilers to fight off its detractors and rivals. Some of the writs run to hundreds of pages of typewritten legalise gobbledygook and some come handwritten - or really badly scrawled - on a few pages.
The winner of the weirdest and funniest Google lawsuit goes to Dylan Stephen Jayne [heads-up to Parker for the correction], who is suing Google because – wait for it –when you take his social security numbers, flip them upside down and jumble them about they spell out something that looks like ‘Google’. This in turn is proof that Google violated his civil liberties by using his social security number to come up with the name for its company.
And Dylan wants his cut. For just $5 billion in damages, he’ll let them off. Hell, his writ even throws in a bit about the War on Terror. $5 billion is a bargain Google – take the deal, you don’t stand a chance. Go Dylan Go.
Read the full and bizarre document here at Techdirt.-Martin Lynch
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Eric Goldman is the blogger who reported this. The "Plaintiff" in the case is a Dylan Stephen Jayne.
It took me all of 10 seconds to find this... what do we pay you for ;o)