A Game of Thrones-loving New York attorney is demanding a civil suit filed against him be settled with a “trial by combat.” Richard Luthmann, 35, who represented the losing side in a 2013 dispute between two investment firms, said the winning firm and its lawyers filed their civil suit against him when his client vanished without paying more than $500,000 in judgments.
Luthmann’s filing goes on to explain a history of the “trial by combat” and his argument that the practice remains a legal option.“Defendant invokes the common law writ of right and demands his common law right to Trial By Combat as against Plaintiffs and their counsel, whom plaintiff wishes to implead into the Trial By Combat by writ of right.”
Luthmann said his Game of Thrones fandom has prepared him for such a trial. “I’d go clad in the armor of Robert Baratheon, warhammer in hand,” he said. Richard Chusid, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said he was unimpressed with the filing. “It should be clear that we do not find the brief amusing and, we believe, neither will the court, both from a legal and ethical perspective,” Chusid said in a statement.
