Summary Judgment is American Lawyer senior writer Susan Beck’s regular opinion column for the Litigation Daily.

Last month, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform came out with its annual list of the 10 most ridiculous lawsuits of the year. It included litigation by a group of Idaho inmates who claimed beer companies didn’t warn them of the dangers of alcohol, and a suit by a New Jersey man who complained that Subway’s footlong sandwiches were only 11 inches.