Wall St. Journal: “They’re the everyday fixtures of the Internet experience: pop-up stock quotes on a website, suggestions for related reading near a news article, videos along the side of your screen. Now, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen says he owns the technology behind all these ideas, and he’s demanding that some [...]
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Arizona Republic: “A Beverly Hills-based gossip website has been hit with an $11 million judgment for libel and slander after posting false accusations about a northern Kentucky teacher who sidelines as a Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader.” The website is thedirty.com owned by Dirty World Entertainment Recordings, which got its start in Scottsdale, [...] Hairtech International Inc. sued Paris Hilton for breach of a promotional contract. The plaintiff alleges that instead of wearing its hair extensions, she wore extensions made by another company and asks for $35 million in damages from Paris’ bad hair days. Tax lady and TV tax expert Roni Deutch has got some splaining to do according to the California Attorney General who sued her for $34 million. Here is the AG’s Auguest 23, 2010, press release: Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today filed a $34 million lawsuit against television’s “Tax [...] Wired: “A federal judge is allowing a negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game Lineage II, amid allegations that a Hawaii man became so addicted he is ‘unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or communicating with family and [...] Wow! Talk about the members of the lucky sperm club. How much child support should a billionaire pay? I guess we will soon know the answer to that question. The Los Angeles Times has a story about billionaire land developer Donald L. Bren and the lawsuit filed by his two illegitimate children. [...] Wall St. Journal: “The Securities and Exchange Commission, in its first securities-fraud case against a state, accused New Jersey of misleading investors about the health of its two largest state pensions while selling billions of dollars in bonds.” Daily Herald: A 17 year old girl wanted to play on a basket ball team while she is connected by a plastic tube to an oxygen tank carried by her service dog. “But her family was told it was ‘not appropriate’ for Jenny to be on the basketball court with her service [...] Brietbart: “A Muslim woman is suing Disneyland, accusing the company’s California theme park of discrimination for telling her she could not serve customers if she chose to wear a headscarf.” NPR: Property owners whose homes are near foreclosed homes got “letters from Cleveland Municipal Housing Court Judge Raymond Pianka telling them that one of the former owners of that empty house, mortgage giant Fannie Mae, had been found guilty of housing code violations. As part of its remedy, the court ordered the [...] Employer has a firm dinner after which some employees to to a near by night club to drink and dance. While dancing, a large male employee fell on a small woman, which caused her to sustain permanent injuries. The employee sued and won a court judgment of $5 million in lost wages [...] Daily Inter Lake: “Justine Winter — the Evergreen teenager charged with deliberate homicide in the traffic deaths of Erin Thompson and her 13-year-old son — has sued Thompson’s estate and the construction company that built the U.S. 93 overpass at Church Drive where the accident occurred.” PR Newswire reports that a woman and her child who were injured in a car accident caused by a PizzaHut delivery driver won a $10.8 million lawsuit PizzaHut. The 18 year old delivery driver who obtained her drivers license three months before the accident had an epileptic seizure, which caused her to [...] Springfield News Sun: “The family of a man who was hit by a train while jumping off a trestle into a river two years ago is suing the railroad and a local canoe center.” The man was killed after he and friends were canoeing down a river when they came to a [...] Court House News: “Major League ballplayers have switched in droves to maple from traditional ash, and the change has brought ‘a marked increase in incidences where bats broke,’ sending ’shrapnel’ into the stands ‘at an alarming rate,’ a Mets fan says. James Falzon claims ‘the barrel of a shattered maple bat’ fractured [...] Forbes: “Should swords carry warning labels? . . . Here’s a case report describing a recent Personal injury action in which the defendants failed to warn the plaintiff that playing with a sharp sword displayed in its store would result in the plaintiff slicing his hand when he attempted to place it [...] More proof there are too many lawyers in the U.S. A California law firm filed a class action lawsuit (Baltazar vs. Apple) against Apple claiming that Apple has done a whole lot of bad things with respect to its iPad. Here are some choice portions of the complaint: “according to [...] Ralph Dupps’ pet turkeys bugged his neighbors, Robert and Jennifer Klippel. The Klippels birdnapped the turkeys and set them free in a wildlife preserve. Dupps filed a police complaint and had the Klippels arrested for petit larceny. The Klippels spent about ten hours in jail. Naturally, being good American citizens who have [...] Phoenix Business Journal: “Four housing industry associations are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for removing an opt-out provision in renovation regulations for houses built before 1978, when lead paint was banned.” “The lead-safe renovation rule adds an average of $2,400 to the cost of renovations in older homes, according [...] Wall St. Journal: “The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a $550 million settlement with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. that will resolve its lawsuit against the firm alleging that it misled investors in a subprime mortgage product, the agency announced Thursday [July 15, 2010].” Pop Crunch: “Whether they are the plaintiffs or defense, celebrities are consistently entertaining when they become involved in legal matters. Although basically any lawsuit involving a celebrity is guaranteed to be entertaining, not all cases are created equal. Here are 15 of the most ridiculous celebrity lawsuits of all time.” The cases summarized in [...] New York Times: “No need for tears, but the well-off are losing their master suites and saying goodbye to their wine cellars. . . . Whether it is their residence, a second home or a house bought as an investment, the rich have stopped paying the mortgage at a rate that greatly [...] Sacramento Bee on California paying 20 year kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard $20 million: “Without question, what Jaycee Dugard endured is beyond comprehension, but it should be patently obvious that California taxpayers weren’t responsible for what happened to her. It’s not our fault she was kidnapped, brutalized, raped and enslaved. Yet we’re paying [...] Minding the Campus: “Connecticut’s Quinnipiac College, best known for its political polling, is now at the center of the newest round in the controversy over Title IX and women’s sports. In a trial that opened last week, a federal judge must decide whether competitive cheerleading should count as a sport for gender [...] Dallas News: “Two Plano school principals violated students’ constitutional rights if they confiscated Christian-themed materials, including candy cane pens, that students planned to hand out at school, an appeals court has said. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled Wednesday that the principals could be held liable for [...] Wired: “Ten U.S citizens and residents, three of whom are veterans, are stuck abroad or cannot fly within or out of the United States because they are wrongly on a no-fly list, according to a federal lawsuit lodged Wednesday.” Washington Post: “Ninety percent of physicians surveyed said doctors overtest and overtreat to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits.” The litigators who give all lawyers a bad name didn’t waste any time filing a class action lawsuit against Apple over its new iPhone 4. Tulsa News story says a man who injured his shoulder and arm in a bicycle crash won a jury verdict of $1.1 million against the manufacturer of the bike. The jury bought the argument that the front fender was defective despite the fact a motor was attached to what was supposed to [...] NY Daily News: “L-A-W-S-U-I-T is a measly 10 points in Scrabble, but it’s worth $80,000 to a cop who claimed she was wrongfully accused of attacking a friend while playing the game.” |
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