Reply #9: An interesting development has come out of this story.

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Apparently the family of the man being sued has been searching for him for about 35 years. He divorced himself from his well-to-do father and family over a dispute about money at that time and literally dropped off the planet. The family saw the story and his name and want to make contact, but he's apparently refusing to have anything to do with them.