The decision is in, but it’s sure to ruffle some feathers. On Thursday, a judge ruled against a lawsuit-happy guy who claimed he was financially damaged because the chicken wings he ordered weren’t actually, you know, wings.

You laid an egg, Judge John Tharp Jr. of Illinois' Northern District ruled:

[Aimen] Halim, 39, sued the fast-food chain in 2023 for leading him to believe that his boneless chicken wings did indeed come from the wing of a chicken. He also demanded $10 million in damages.

'A reasonable consumer would not think that BWW's boneless wings were truly deboned chicken wings, reconstituted into some sort of Franken-wing,' Tharp said.

Tharp ruled that Georgia-based Buffalo Wild Wings is well within its rights to continue serving boneless wings, even though the delicacy is essentially just a chicken nugget.

Halim's argument was that he wouldn't have purchased the dish had he known it wasn't actually made from chicken wings, causing him financial harm.

?CASE DISMISSED?

A judge has just ruled in favor of Buffalo Wild Wings' motion to dismiss an amended complaint alleging deceptive marketing for selling "boneless wings" that are actually chicken nuggets made from breast meat rather than deboned wing meat.

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— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) February 17, 2026

Ultimately, the court grants the motion to dismiss in part, holding that no reasonable consumer would be deceived by the term "boneless wings" (deeming it a fanciful or colloquial label akin to "chicken fingers" or "cauliflower wings," not a literal promise of deboned wing meat.

Side note: If I ever order "cauliflower wings," please have me taken to the hospital — because there would be a good chance that I’d lost my mind.

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The ruling, however, comes as somewhat of a blow to me personally, because I’ve had restaurants bring me the wrong dish, or the food didn’t taste as good as I hoped, and I want my $10 million. 

This judge was evidently too chicken to mete out real justice:

There is no such thing as boneless wings. Those are chicken tenders.

— Kendra Middleton (@KendraMiddleton) February 8, 2026

On a more serious note, Lawsuit Guy wanted to bully the chain into changing the name of their signature offering. Seriously, does anyone care? It’s chicken, it tastes good, and it’s shaped like a wing. As Louisiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy might say, “Go on Amazon and buy a life.”

Take your Karen-like cluck-clucking elsewhere, Judge John Tharp said:

The customer wanted Tharp to rule that Buffalo Wild Wings must change the name of its wings to something like 'chicken poppers,' but the judge didn't bite.

'Words can have multiple meanings,' Tharp said in the 10-page opinion.

Online, Buffalo Wild Wings describes its Boneless Wings as 'juicy all-white chicken, lightly breaded, handspun in choice of sauce or dry rub.'

The restaurant also offers Bone-In Wings and Cauliflower Wings, which are obviously not made from the wings of cauliflowers.

Buffalo Wild Wings argued that Halim didn't prove he sustained a concrete injury by consuming the boneless wings.

And so this turkey of a case appears to have cracked, although Halim has until March to amend his complaint to prove that he truly experienced “concrete harm.” Based on his resumé — he’s lost cases against Hefty recycling bags and KIND granola after accusing them of deceptive advertising — he may be waddling toward yet another loss.

Frivolous lawsuits are a real problem in America, and good on this judge for sending this one back to the barn.

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