Longest court cases for silly stuff

[Rob Ray]

Not sure if this is current affairs material, but the Belgrade Six have just been cleared of "international terrorism" charges after eight years in court, which seems like an incredibly long time for what was basically a case of vandalism (they were accused of chucking a couple of molotovs at the wall of the Greek embassy and scrawling a circled A on it).

So I was wondering what other ridiculously long cases for ridiculously small issues are knocking about? Mclibel came to mind but any particularly interesting ones past that?

 

[bi0boy]

This one carried on for a while, despite most of them dying: Dickens of a case

 

[8den]

William Jennens - Wikipedia

Jennens V Jennens started in 1798 and finished in 1915 when the estate that was being argued over ran out of money due to legal fees.*

*Q.I. fact.