[Free-sklyarov-uk] Sony destroys the PSX and PS2 mod market

[phil hunt]

On Wednesday 12 December 2001  7:28 pm, Edward Welbourne wrote:
>
> Missing jargon - can anyone remind me:
>   going to court wantonly
>   taking folk to court in order to inconvenience them
> it's not `malicious prosecution' per se and there's a quite specific
> piece of legal jargon for it. [I remember a news story a few months
> back involving a pair of brothers, with very limited talents, who were
> convicted of it after taking a whole slew of cases alleging unjust
> discrimination against assorted parties who'd refused them A levels,
> jobs, etc. on the legitimate grounds of lack of ability.]
> It's something along the lines of `frivolous litigation'.

In the UK such people can become declared a "vexatious litigant".
There's an equivalent expression in the USA, I believe.

(IANAL)

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