Overlawyered’s Walter Olson has a great column today called “Exorcising Toyota’s Demons,” which is subtitled “Reviewing the history of tort-bar opportunism and media malfeasance should dispel the Great Toyota Panic of 2010.”
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Overlawyered’s Walter Olson has a great column today called “Exorcising Toyota’s Demons,” which is subtitled “Reviewing the history of tort-bar opportunism and media malfeasance should dispel the Great Toyota Panic of 2010.” Los Angeles Times: “The University of California must refund about $38 million to professional degree students who were illegally charged fee increases after they started school in 2003, a Superior Court judge in San Francisco ruled Friday.” Threat Level: “The site set up to locate long lost pals, Classmates.com, has been hit with a class action privacy lawsuit. It alleges the company violated the law when it decided to make user profiles public to compete with Facebook. The suit says Classmates.com duped its paying customers in late January when it [...] Bloomberg: “Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance with its reference to God in public schools doesn’t violate the U.S. Constitution’s separation of church and state, a federal appeals court ruled. The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco disagreed with Michael Newdow, an atheist who sued a school district near Sacramento, California, challenging the [...] New York Post: “A Manhattan woman [Irina Krupnik] whose picture was used as a sexual aid in the hit movie ‘Couples Retreat’ has filed a $10 million lawsuit over her inspiring — and unwitting — appearance in the Vince Vaughn flick.” A federal jury found that a Detroit’s Hudson Area Schools must pay a student $800,000 because the school did not protect the student from peer on peer harassment. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants violated Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, 20 U.S.C. § 1681, which provides that nobody “on [...] A California court jury awarded a permanently injured 14 year old girl $24.3 million in damages because a big-rig truck owned by Freeway Transport Inc., ran over her. The jury award was the largest of its kind ever for a Sacramento County personal injury lawsuit. The driver of the truck that ran over [...] Can you say bad publicity is better than no publicity? Former actress and paparazzi favorite party-girl Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit that should be a lot of fun to follow. She sued E-Trade over a commercial in which a baby had the audacity to say “Lindsay” without LiLo’s written permission. Everybody knows that [...] Here’s another outrageous lawsuit that drives people nuts. City of Detriot worker Susan McBride cannot stand her co-worker’s perfume so she complaints to management that does not solve the problem. Susan does what every other money hungry red-blooded American would do – she lawyers up and sues the city for violating her rights [...] Investors Business Daily: “The rush to the courts is under way, triggered by two recent rulings allowing global warming claims to go forward against energy defendants for their emissions of carbon dioxide. A third such ruling may be coming soon, even though it becomes more obvious every day that man-made global warming is [...] Frank Sutton claims he was injured over five years ago when he bit into a McDonald’s hamburger and grease exploded onto his skin. The lawsuit went to trial in 2008, but just before the jury ruled, the judge threw out the case. Sutton appealed and now the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has [...] Forget all the problems in the United States and the world, two crusaders who love to attack windmills are fighting our battles for us. See the story in Above the Law. The two plaintiffs sued Blimpie in a class action lawsuit for allegedly skimping on meat in Blimpie sandwiches. The plaintiffs claim that [...] The Denver Post has a story about a lawsuit won by Mike Zinna against Jefferson County, Colorado, that illustrates the high cost of litigation and the incredible amounts government spends defending itself. The lawsuit arose after Jefferson County Commissioner Jim Congrove denied Zinna access to public records and prevented him from speaking at [...] The Associated Press reports that a man sued the Kansas City Royals baseball team claiming that he was injured when the team’s mascot, Sluggerrr, threw a hot dog into the stands that hit him in the eye. The plaintiff is asking for damages exceeding $25,000. Clearly Sluggerrr should have cut the hot dog [...] Online review website Yelp was named a defendant in a class action lawsuit filed in federal district court in Los Angeles. The plaintiff claims it asked Yelp to remove a negative review, but Yelp refused and then demanded $300 a month to remove the review. See “Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0: [...] St. Petersburg Times: “Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan has settled a lawsuit with the family of a young man critically injured in a car wrecked by Hogan’s son, attorneys said Friday. The terms of the financial settlement with Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, and his son Nick Bollea are confidential . . [...] Above the Law by Kashmir Hill: “Yesterday, we reported on the lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania high schooler Blake Robbins against his school for invasion of privacy. Robbins was one of 1,800 students given a laptop for home use by the Lower Merion School District. When Robbins was punished by a vice principal at [...] Philadelphia Inquirer: “Lower Merion School District officials used school-issued laptop computers to illegally spy on students, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court. The suit, filed Tuesday, says unnamed school officials at Harriton High School in Rosemont remotely activated the webcam on a student’s computer last year because the district believed [...] From the “you’ve got to be kidding department. Traumatized mom wants $30,00 for her suffering. Chicago Tribune: “Suit says the newborn she was given to nurse wasn’t hers. The day after her son was born, Jennifer Spiegel was awakened about 4 a.m. in her Evanston Hospital room and told by a staffer, ‘Your [...] Chicago Tribune: “Dad defies court order by taking 3-year-old daughter to Catholic church. Rebecca Reyes opened an e-mail from her estranged husband in November to learn to her shock that he had their 3-year-old daughter baptized in the Catholic Church even though she said the couple, in happier times, had agreed to raise [...] Wind power is a new pot of gold for the trial lawyers. The litigation over the installation and use of wind turbines has begun in earnest. ABA Journal: “Wind farms are a growing source of clean energy. But some of the neighbors are beginning to complain. ‘They told us that the noise at [...] ABC Good Morning America: “Elizabeth Edwards may be preparing to sue her husband’s longtime aide for allegedly contributing to the demise of her marriage. In such a lawsuit, Edwards would argue an ‘alienation of affection,’ alleging that Andrew Young’s role in covering up his former boss’s affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter was [...] Frank Sutton wanted to eat, but the McDonald’s was closed. Some of the employees of the burger joint apparently were hanging around after closing. Frank convinced one of them to sell him the now infamous chicken sandwich. Frank claimed grease from the chicken sandwich injured him and sued for $2 million. The trial [...] Chicago-Bar Tender: “A woman who says she was attacked by a homeless man and woman while leaving a Jewel Food Store is suing the store and the alleged homeless individuals. . . . The complaint states that ‘homeless persons and others were known to loiter outside the [store], commonly congregating on the wall [...] The Boston Globe: “Alyssa Burrage says she was smoked out of her new $405,000 condominium. Burrage, a 32-year-old advertising company employee with a history of asthma, had smelled cigarettes when she first visited the bright, parlor-level condo in Boston’s South End in 2006 with her real estate broker. But the broker, she alleges, [...] Law.com: “The largest individual award to a former Florida smoker against the tobacco industry will not stand, a Broward Circuit judge ruled Friday. Calling the $300 million jury verdict ‘excessive’ and ’shocking,’ Judge Jeffrey Streitfeld said he would determine a lower award later against tobacco giant Philip Morris USA. He gave no [...] Huffington Post: “A Wisconsin woman is suing the credit-reporting agency Experian because its ubiquitous advertisements for FreeCreditReport.com made her think she could go to that site to get a free credit report. Erica Possin, a college student in Wisconsin, wanted to check her credit before buying a new car. She’d seen the ads [...] New York Times: “A district court judge in San Francisco on Monday[February 8, 2010] denied the N.C.A.A.’s motion for dismissal in a class-action lawsuit headed by the former U.C.L.A. basketball star Ed O’Bannon. The ruling leaves the N.C.A.A.’s licensing contracts open to discovery. O’Bannon’s lawyers filed the antitrust suit in July, claiming that [...] Oregon Live: “A McDonald’s drive-thru customer who suffered burns on her thigh from hot coffee she ordered is suing the restaurant, claiming the coffee was too hot and the cup’s lid too loose.” |
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