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Man Sues Book of World Records Over Most-Litigious Crown

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Jonathan Lee Riches, aka Irving Picard, has filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction to stop the Guinness Book of World Records from naming him as the person who has filed the most lawsuits in the history of mankind.

Jonathan, also known as the 'Lawsuit Zeus' and 'Johnny Sue-nami', filed his latest legal fight this week.

He alleges that Guinness is planning to print false information about the number of lawsuits he has filed, which he says is more than 4,000 worldwide. And he objects to the names Guinness intends to call him, including: 'The litigator crusader',� the 'duke of lawsuits', 'Sue-per-man' and the 'Patrick Ewing of suing'.

"I've filed so many lawsuits with my pen and right hand that I got arthritis in my fingers, numbness in my wrists, crooked fingers," he writes in the latest filing. "I flush out more lawsuits than a sewer."

In the injunction filing, Riches, who acknowledges he is receiving treatment for mental-health problems, says: "The Guinness Book of World Records have no right to publish my work, my legal masterpieces."

Although Riches doens't dispute that he may be the most litigious person in America.

He's filed lawsuits against New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, former President George W. Bush, Somali pirates, Britney Spears, Martha Stewart, Plato, Nostradamus, James Hoffa, the Eiffel Tower and Three Mile Island.

The kicker? Riches has been doing all this from prison -- but that doesn't mean he doesn't have big dreams.

"When I get out of prison, I'm going to start a Lawsuit 101 shop and teach Americans how to file pro se lawsuits," meaning lawsuits filed without an attorney.

He could be released from federal custody in 2012.