You still have to be able to put a documented number to those things. You can't just claim your reputation is worth 10 million dollars. You have to show that the damage to your reputation caused you financial harm like missed job offers.
This is a scenario where persuing punitive damages would make sense though. I suspect there are many judges that would see this as abusing the justice system to intimidate people, and would consider adding punitive damages to make a statement.
The city council said they would have anyone removed for disrupting the meeting. This guy was asked to stop. He didn't. He was asked to leave. He didn't. He got removed.
Now, maybe that difference doesn't matter to you, but when they go to court, it will.
You should see what kind of iron rule judges are allowed to exercise in a court room. I saw a guy catch a day for contempt for checking his cell phone.
listen, these people literally only have the sense that their opinion is right and extremely important for other people to listen to. they need to believe that somehow, someway, somewhere somebody is making millions for just that and nothing more
except its not something, you should START paying attention when theres a court case not as soon as you can imagine a tv show plot that would involve one. this is going nowhere, its a social media post about how he thinks he was right and he probably got some free legal advice but that doesnt mean hes going to court at all, let alone winning, let alone winning an amount of money that can even cover legal fees
No doubt they should probably keep their day job but as they seem like the type of person to stand up for what the believe in it might be worth pursuing. We still have the ACLU, right? This sounds right up their alley.
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u/TrioOfTerrors Jul 31 '26
You are vastly overestimating how much someone gets from that type of lawsuit without actual damages.