Re: Four million dollars?
"Financial gain (as in gain and not compensation) for any party should never be the outcome."
While I understand the sentiment, levying a fine from one party must always result in another party having an equal financial gain. You can argue about how big they should be and who should get the money, but unless you disagree with all fines in principle you can't say that no-one should gain from them because that's impossible. Even in criminal cases, where the majority of money goes to the lawyers state, it's common to have some kind of victim surcharge or restitution fund.
Also:
""..could have been.." Can you sue for things that could have happened in USA?"
Yes, of course, for the same reason things like attempted murder or driving while intoxicated are crimes. It's not necessary for actual harm to be done, only that an action is deemed to have sufficient potential for harm that legal penalties are justified to discourage it. There's no reason civil suits should be any different - if someone attempts to harm your reputation, the fact that they're not very good at it doesn't mean you can't sue them for defamation.
On top of that, it's worth remembering that you can sue anyone for literally anything. Cases that are obviously without merit will generally be thrown out almost as soon as they're filed. The fact that someone attempts to sue for what looks like a stupid reason, or asks for what sounds like a stupid amount of money, doesn't imply anything bad about legal system; it's the outcome of the case that actually matters.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
