What is Jonathan Lee Riches suing the Guinness Book of World Records for?
Man sues Guinness Book of Records over ‘most lawsuits’ claim Tuesday, May 26, 2009 A man who keeps suing people is suing the Guinness Book of World Records for saying that he’s sued the most people ever. Jonathan Lee Riches, who is currently incarcerated in the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky, is thought to have filed over 4,000 lawsuits around the world against various people, entities, objects and concepts. In a boldly ironic move, he has now filed a lawsuit against the Guinness Book of World Records, hoping to get an injunction against them naming him as the world’s most litigious man in their 2010 edition. ‘The Guinness Book of World Records have no right to publish my work, my legal masterpieces,’ he says in the legal filing, according to The Spokesman-Review. He is also unhappy about the nicknames they apparently plan to ascribe to him, including ‘Sue-per-man’, ‘the duke of lawsuits’ and ‘Johnny Sue-nami’. Previous targets of his legal ire have included George W. Bu
The notoriously litigious inmate, also known as Irving Picard, has sued the records book for calling him the world’s most litigious guy; he also “objects to the names Guinness intends to call him”, including: “Johnny Sue-nami,” “Sue-per-man” and the “Patrick Ewing of suing.” He is currently an inmate at a federal facility in Kentucky. [Spokane Spokesman-Review, KOMO] Sources: http://overlawyered.
After hearing the Guinness Book of World Records planned to name him the most litigious man, one federal prisoner did what he does best — he sued. As if finding out he was to be named the world’s most litigious man by the Guinness Book of World Records wasn’t bad enough, they got the tally wrong, according to federal prisoner Jonathan Lee Riches, who is now suing. Imprisoned in Lexington, Ky., for wire fraud, Riches, aka Irving Picard, wrote in his handwritten document that he’s actually filed more than 4,000 lawsuits in countless courts, not 5,500 as mentioned in a letter Riches said he got from Guinness congratulating him on his distinction. Riches said in his lawsuit that he sent Guinness Book of World Records 10 letters declining the offer because the facts were wrong. Sources: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/LegalCenter/story?
