27 June 2007: All mouth, no trousers and no compensation

Earlier this month we reported on an American judge who was suing the owners of a dry cleaning business for losing his trousers. He was demanding 54 million dollars in compensation, citing a sign in their window that read "satisfaction guaranteed."

Unusually for America's infamous legal system, sanity has prevailed. The court ruled against him, saying "A reasonable consumer would not interpret 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' to mean that a merchant is required to satisfy a customer's unreasonable demands".

Not only does he not get his 54 million dollars in compensation, he now has to pay the defendants' fees and other costs, estimated at well over ten thousand dollars.