The cost to John Doe was $0.
As far as costs for Tarbutt I can't say but they had law firms in Minneapolis and Atlanta working on it, hired private investigators and process servers, got about 2 dozen subpeonas served on various internet sites, even serving one on a mail drop I used; and as to that mail drop, their P.I. staked it out but never saw anyone of my description go in or out. Perhaps that was because I was having my mail forwarded by the drop.
Plus I no longer live at the home address they were using to try and serve me. In short Target will be getting a large bill from the Fagree Benson law firm for their legal services, by my 'guess' about $250,000.
I did get a kick out of reading the filing of the process server which said my neighbors told him that I was 'reclusive', 'strange' and 'would never answer the door'. Of course it is difficult to 'answer the door' if you are living in another state!
I guess they could always refile but probably they would want to avoid Judge Coopers' court as I think he is slightly pissed off to have it on his docket for 23 months with no results at all.
Just my humble opinion but don't they have better things to do?
