CBS has reported the litigation abuse story of the day.  This one from Long Island, where sisters Patty DeMint and Michelle Robey achieved the American Dream, by running their own Dairy Queen restaurant . But now, they’ve been sued by trial lawyers who discovered that an old New York law nobody remembered was still on the books, requiring hourly employees to be paid weekly. The sisters were paying every two weeks.

“Of the $450,000 settlement, $305,000 goes to lawyers and fees,” CBS reports.  That’s 68%!

The good news is New York fixed their law and going forward, an employer that doesn’t know about the goofy weekly pay law (why didn’t they just repeal it) will only be responsible for paying back interest. That’s cold comfort to the Dairy Queen Sisters, though.