In Re Melton

Once upon a time, long, long ago, the King of Epirus defeated his Roman adversaries in a battle at Asculum. Unfortunately for him and his cause, however, a large part of his army was destroyed. “Another such victory over the Romans,” his majesty exclaimed, “and we are utterly undone.” PLUTARCH, Lives, Pyrrhus, § 21.1 The king’s name was Pyrrhus, and the kind of triumph which brought the winner such travail has come to be known as a Pyrrhic victory.

I am very much afraid that what Tommie Melton has won through litigation may be as counter-productive in the long run as the famous monarch’s…