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Former Federal Prisoner Claims to be Most Litigious Person

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2013 published in Prison Legal News October, 2013, page 34
Filed under: Civil Procedure, Frivolous Litigation. Location: United States of America.
Jonathan Lee Riches, 36, bills himself as the most litigious person alive. He’s claimed that the Guinness Book of World Records wanted to list him as having filed the most lawsuits; he sued Guinness in response, arguing that they had miscounted the number of his legal actions.

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