Ross v. Continental Resources, Inc.

As I have noted before, the law often appears to aid the greedy more assiduously than it does the needy. See Doliner v. Brown, 21 Mass. App. Ct. 692, 698 (1986) (Brown, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part). This is another example in which a marginal claim of $15,000 spawned more than a decade of litigation — at times, both sides could see or should have perceived the futility of further efforts — and mushroomed into an award of over $100,000 in damages (an apparently problematical amount at this stage) and attorney’s fees. In brief, the teaching point here is that a litigant in…