Apologizing, even twice, didn’t save Miley Cyrus of some serious scolding involving legal action following the photo scandal involving a picture showing her pulling her eyes up in an apparent gesture mocking Asian people.

Though she initially defended herself, saying she was just making “goofy faces,” she then recanted, saying she was sorry and that she “learned a valuable lesson.” Miley’s apology is not enough for one woman in the Los Angeles County. Lucie J. Kim has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of over a million Asian Pacific Islanders in LA County, seeking the minimum $4000 damages for a civil rights violation, which adds up to $4 billion in total.

Kim said that when Cyrus posed for the photo, she “knew or should have known that her image would be publicly disseminated via the media, which Cyrus knew focused on her private life, specifically TMZ.”

While the lawsuit is a little far fetched, the 16-year-old singer did become the famous public face of anti-Asian racism. The lawsuit is trying to bring awareness to the fact that Asians are discriminated against and that it’s incredibly hurtful and cruel to make the “chinky eyes,” as Margaret Cho and others call it.

Personally, I don’t think Miley meant to hurt anyone and the lawsuit will probably get thrown out, but people are hurt by those same gestures and we shouldn’t brush it off as if it’s meaningless.