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Inmate Sues Warcraft For Eleventeen Zillion Gold [World Of Warcraft]

So by now we should all be up to speed on Johnathan Lee Riches, the South Carolina inmate who kills time by filing lawsuits against the likes of Barry Bonds, Michael Vick, and anyone else who happens to be in the news. For a time, ~~shitheads~~ mainstream media treated the claims seriously, but now we all have to realize he's just having fun, and showing zero respect for a judicial system that put him in the clink.
His latest salvo is novel, however, in that it's a freaking third-party motion in the courtroom pugilistics involving Blizzard and MDY Industries. Riches' motion, no doubt handwritten on...

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Tags: Blizzard, Lawsuit, Legal, MDY Industries, World of Warcraft, extend-true, news

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