Welcome to America, the land of sueing and screwing people simply because you can.
Its really pitiful that someone would smack them with any kind of law suit for getting caught cheating and being accused of it. So many people try to show magic as a "mind sport" like chess, yet in other sports you don't see athletes or competitors sueing the leagues and referee for penalty calls, there wouldn't be sports competitions of any kind at all if that happened.
If thats all the kid and dad went in to do then they should be flogged and sent to live in poverty for their greed and abusiveness.
It should be as simple as: You cheated, you got caught, we got proof, you get punished. End of freaking list.
We all know that there are subtle loop holes in rules enforcement system, obviously that kids miserly father found one. But I do really believe that the DCI could do a better job then it does currently by looking over the rules system and revising it, then sticking to their guns about it.
I'll grant that some rules are difficult at best to enforce such as the "insufficient randomization" one. But others should be very simple, and I would think that mass long term fraud of the reporting system would be one of them as that kind of information should be easy to gather, especially when accessories to the violation step forward to admit it and come clean.
In this case the guy could do nothing with his lawyer because of the level of evidence against him. Thats like saying I can go into a T2 tournament with a deck packing bolts and StP. I get caught cheating, the proof is blatantly obvious, but I can sue them now for calling me a cheater, what sense does that make?
I really don't think this is asking for a utopia situation here.
I'm done ranting now...
*wanders off to bed*