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Judge Carton Rules: All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Bar Law

By Bruce Carton

Welcome back to Judge Carton Rules, where a fake judge issues rulings to spare the parties to cases in which the outcomes are obvious the time and expense of further litigation. There is just one case on today's docket. We'll hear now from counsel for the the plaintiff: Plaintiff's Counsel: The restaurant offered "all you can eat sushi for $28," and my client accepted. My client is diabetic, however, and cannot eat rice, so he just ate the seafood off the top and left the rice. But then the owner of the restaurant told my client that if he wanted the all-you-can-eat price, he'd have to eat the rice too and not just fill up on fish. He insisted that sushi includes rice, and that "sashimi" is just fish. But we say "NO! We will not eat your rice!" And my client wants at least $4,000 in damages for the "humiliation, embarrassment and mental anguish" he suffered after being discriminated against "on the basis of his disability" (diabetes). Judge Carton: Thank you, we will now hear from defense counsel. Defense counsel: Your honor, the rice is clearly part of the all-you-can-eat sushi. My client would go broke if people ate...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on February 28, 2011 (boomark / email).