Could he take them to small claims court one Lego set at a time, get a judgment against the business then go in with the sheriff and start taking stuff to cover the judgement?

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singpolyma3 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They already have a judgement against the business for the full amount. But the business chose to close rather than pay

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ryandrake 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I dont understand how that works: The entire $400M business decided to close over $200K judgment? Or just the single store? If just the store, why did they sue the store and not the underlying business?

	▲	ball_of_lint 21 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In my (possibly flawed) understanding, it's a franchise so they were able to dissolve the LLC that owned this particular store. The franchise is what has physical possession of the lego and signed the consignment contract.
	▲	ExpertAdvisor01 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Just the single store closed .

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ogig an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is one of the stunts tried on the video. The original owner sold the sets to the crew members, and they presented 10 small claims. They won all of them because BAM did not went to court, the next day they closed the store permanently. This story is crazy.

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fortran77 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In many counties there's a limit to how many small claims actions you can take in a year. (Where I live, it's 2).

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colechristensen 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No. Small claims are for claims which are small. This belongs in civil court all at once and you don't get to go in with the sheriff (if you win) unless they are ordered to pay you and refuse to.

There are explicit rules against claim splitting and you risk either the judge combining all of your filings into one case and moving it to a different court or dismissing all of the claims after the first one. There are very good reasons why a person can't keep suing you over and over for the same event.

	▲	kenmacd 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Watch the video. They worked around this by selling lego sets to 10 different people (as it was still owned by the lego owner), then the 10 different people all opened separate $10k suits, which they all won. Then corporate shut down the location to avoid paying the suits they lost.