A man some call “Johnny Sue-nami” — he has earned the name by apparently filing more than 4,000 lawsuits worldwide — is now threatening to sue the people behind the Guinness Book of World Records. Why? Because they’re going to give him the Guinness World Record for most lawsuits, and he says they’re going to print false information about him:
Jonathan Lee Riches, aka Irving Picard, filed his latest legal fight this week in the Richland office of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, although he is incarcerated in the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Ky.
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“The Guinness Book of World Records have no right to publish my work, my legal masterpieces.”
Previously, he’s also launched lawsuits against various celebrities, and even a bunch of things that can’t normally be sued: the video game Grand Theft Auto, the book Mein Kampf, the Appalachian Trail, the Roman Empire, and the 13 Tribes of Israel. It’s all cited on his Wikipedia page.
Grant Hamilton
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Matt Goerzen