October 17th, 2007 at 11:55 am
So there was the judge that sued his dry cleaner for ruining his pants, now there’s the lawyer that’s suing her florist for $400k.
The reason … the flowers at her wedding were not arranged properly, the wrong color and it caused “extreme disappointment, distress and embarrassment.”
By the way, those flowers she ordered cost her $27k. That’s ridiculous! Seems like she’s a rich spoil brat and a litigation lawyer — a pretty bad combination to me. I wonder whether she was stomping and kicking her feet like a 5 year old when she saw the different colored flowers.
What is wrong with people nowadays? Potentially putting a florist out of business to appease your vanity is just wrong. People like this just make me sick. There really should be a law against people wasting the courts time and money on frivolous suits just because they can, they know the law and they want to prove a point.
I am not sure what she stands to gain from all this too. Maybe she likes the negative publicity. Reading the few articles around the web, she is not particularly popular with her peers and co workers alike. She’s not going to gain many friends (probably lose a lot) with her actions and it may have an impact on her future clientèle. It does impact the rest of the law community too. Lawyers in particular are often seen as unscrupulous, cold hearted and money hungry predators — this situation puts a further dent to their already tainted image. My condolences to her husband as he may not have known what he has got himself into.
What she has done now is irreversible, she will always be reminded of what she has done. The next time her relatives, future kids or future clients Google her name to find out more on her or whether to hire her, this story (and the many other thousands written) will always be linked to her name in a negative way.
Well Mrs. Elana Elbogen, as they say “what goes around, comes around“. I hope you sleep well at night knowing that.
Other Links
NY Times
Gawker
Mrs. Elbogen’s Bloomingdale’s Wedding Registry
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CatherineL said: @ 12:32 am
October 18th, 2007
That is ridiculous. If all she could think about on her wedding day we stress and embarrassment over some silly flowers maybe she shouldn’t have got married at all.
SusaninGermany said: @ 7:45 am
October 18th, 2007
Shoot. Maybe I should sue my caterer who catered my wedding last year. They forgot to bring the coffee!!!! Hello, it is a German/American wedding, no coffee for the Europeans? I think that is suffering and embarassment. That deserves $500K. Too bad I didn’t know about until last week, a year and a half later.
Really, I am sick of frivolous lawsuits.