The state Supreme Court last week heard arguments on the seemingly endless antitrust suit against 24 campus area bars, mostly mom-and-pop taverns, underscoring just how unfair the legal system can sometimes be.
The suit, which alleges that the taverns illegally conspired to eliminate drink specials for their mostly college student clientele, has already cost these family-owned establishments more than $600,000 to pay for the lawyers who have defended them from a seemingly endless trek from circuit court to the federal courts to the appeals courts and now to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. That kind of cold, hard cash undoubtedly wipes out the profits that the establishments hoped to make these past couple of years.