Re: Jilted bride sues
Umm, that’s where she gets to subpoena his friends who then have to testify under oath and tell the truth (whatever the truth may be) or be charged with perjury. It’s not really a stretch of the imagination to think that maybe the guy told his friend: “Hey man, I’m having second thoughts about getting married” or even had other actions/expressions where his lack of committment or fidelity were apparent. For a guy planning on getting married, his alleged actions at the bachelor party call into question his sincerity and committment to actually getting married. And there would be witnesses to his behaviour at the bachelor party, including the strippers, club management or other patrons at the club (or even horror of horror, security tapes).
Medical and psychological costs are pretty standard when you sue for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Those are technically measurable damages. If she sees a therapist - the cost of the therapist are part of the damages she’s entitled to make a claim for.
No doubt the the bride feels humiliated by being jilted and is suing to get back a little of her own from the guy. As for why other girls (or guys) don’t sue when they’ve been jilted, it’s proabably because they don’t want to 1) spend the money on a lawsuit, 2) they’re too hurt to think about money, or 3) the jilter may have paid the jilted some costs of the wedding - in other words taken responsibility for the breach of promise.