Best Buy sued for $54M

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A D.C. woman is suing Best Buy over a lost laptop computer for $54 million, the exact amount that a judge sought in a lawsuit against a local dry cleaners over a lost pair of pants that drew worldwide ridicule.

Raelyn Campbell, 37, concedes that the $54 million was a ridiculous amount, but she chose the number to draw attention to the consumer property and privacy-protection practices at America’s largest consumer electronics retailer and because each year $54 billion is lost to identity theft.

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