From personal experience, I'm fine in situations where I am 100% sure than nothing terrible* can happen. A courtroom could be considered to be "safe", in a sense, though I can't really comment further on this, because if I were to take out a lawsuit against someone who wronged me, it would be at the persuasion of family and / or friends.

Part of overcoming Agoraphobia is getting over the idea that certain ventures can only fail. Perhaps the lawyer has increased the plaintiff's confidence so much that the plaintiff is willing to go through with it. I do fear for the plaintiff though, because it's quite likely that a bad result from this would profit all legal teams involved, and thus worsen his condition, due to the realisation of being taken advantage of.

^{* Terrible, as in things with no obvious resolution}

Final verdict;

Case dismissed. Go home.

"The plaintiff was exercising his First Amendment Rights to Freedom of Speech in the game's public forum"

When the guy has to mention first amendment rights to justify the stuff he posted on Sony forums you know he didn't get banned for some random forum post....

Translation : I was being a jack-ass on Sony forums because I'm used to spewing insults while remaining anonymous. I didn't expect to get caught in the act... How dared Sony catch me !!!!

He deserves to be banned for this stupid sueing business. It's called reverse karma, you do something stupid in the future, like sue sony because you got banned, then you get banned in the past. It's the perfect circle.

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^^ Lmao, I never thought of it that way!

Glad I dont live in America, people their can be so stupid (not anyone on this site). One guy the was sueing his cleaner $55 million dollars because he lost the guys pair of pants.

lol! What a loner.

I think this is how the judge is going to see it.

PSN is given to you for free. If you abuse it you should be punish with a ban.

Just like if you kill someone you will be punish by going to prison.

I'd sue Sony if I could. I like money.

Well this is the dumbest thing I've heard this week.

It's things like this remind me why I hate people. Instead of judges actually taking care of things that matter, you've got sue happy twats like this.

Protip: if you don't want to be banned, don't be a jackass.

Nobody can stop you from saying whatever you want but they have every right to deny you their service.