OOPS….Question: what’s the difference between awarding $1 million to 1,812 people and awarding $1 million each to 1,812 people?

Answer: $1.8 billion. Talk about your runaway juries…..

(Don’t worry, I’m sure the judge will fix it. The rest of the story is amusing enough to be worth reading too. It’s a sordid tale of small time fraud that stretches from Manhattan Beach, California, all the way to the wilds of British Columbia!)

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