Fifty-four million dollars for a pair of missing pants? A judge in Washington, D.C., made headlines when he filed a \($54\) million lawsuit against his neighborhood dry cleaner because it lost a pair of his pinstriped suit pants. He claimed that a local consumer protection law entitled him to thousands of dollars for each day over nearly four years in which signs at the shop promised “same day service” and “satisfaction guaranteed.” The suit dragged on for several months, but at the end of the day, the plaintiff went home with empty pockets.111 And some people claim we have too many lawsuits in this country! Should our legal system allow for lawsuits that encourage consumers to sue companies over complaints like this?