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Opinion: 'Stop Me Before I Eat Again, or I'll Sue You'

Those are the demands, in essence, made in recent lawsuits targeting a casino and a string of fast-food franchises, filed by "victims" of irresistible temptations posed by those wicked modern temples of desire and deadly sins.

It had to happen, I suppose. We are a surpassingly litigious society.

When some harm is done to us, the first recourse is a lawsuit. Fair enough. But now it seems that we would like to sue someone - anyone (preferably with deep corporate pockets) - when we do harm to ourselves.

Consider these recent cases: In Evansville, Ind., David N. Williams, 52, filed a suit in federal court arguing that his addiction to gambling was so severe that Casino Aztar, a fancy new riverboat docked on the banks of the Ohio River, should have cut him off before he had blown his life savings. Instead, Williams said, the casino let him return to gamble within a year after he was hospitalized for gambling addiction. Williams seeks the return of the $175,000 he lost at the gaming tables and a few million dollars in punitive damages.

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