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Model Suing Steven Seagal Keeps Ace Up Her Sleeve

Posted on April 17, 2010
The Louisiana property where Steven Seagal allegedly assaulted Kayden Nguyen Attorneys for a model suing Steven Seagal for sexual harassment have sent a clear message to the actor that he can avoid any testimony about his allegedly ?unique physiological reaction to sexual arousal? by settling the case...

Lawyer Sues Former Son-in-Law Over Marital Cheating

Posted on April 14, 2010
Taking contract law to an extreme, Chicago attorney Carey M. Stein has filed a $1 million lawsuit in which he alleges his former son-in-law broke an oral agreement to be faithful to his daughter if he footed the bill for the couple's wedding.With its allegation of a contract premised on marital fidelity, the case seems more suited to a Restoration comedy than to the modern world...

Hospital Sued for Letting Male Nurse Dress as Woman

Posted on April 08, 2010
A gunshot victim who was molested by a transgender nurse has sued a Cincinnati hospital under the dubious theory that the nurse was a ?defective? employee simply because he dressed as a woman. Chad Thrasher Dereco Evans's lawsuit ventures into uncharted legal waters by arguing that the University of Cincinnati Hospital is liable for negligent supervision of his assailant even though he does not allege phlebotomist Chad Thrasher had a prior history of molesting patients...

Shaq Takes a Hack at Ex's "Fanciful" Harassment Case

Posted on April 07, 2010
NBA monolith Shaquille O'Neal says a cyberstalking lawsuit against him tells ?a fanciful tale,? arguing that his alleged ?oral abuse? of an ex-girlfriend was not ?outrageous? and he didn't steal anything by allegedly hacking into her voice mails and text messages...

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"Sluggerrr's" Stray Sausage Tests Sports Injury Law

Posted on April 03, 2010
Baseball fans assume the risk of being hit by foul balls but the Kansas City Royals may not be able to make the same argument in the case of a man who alleges an errant hot dog hurled by the team mascot struck him in the eye, detaching his retina.Hot dog launches and t-shirt cannons are a common sideshow at sports events...

Jury Awards $800K to Victim of "Pattern of Bullying"

Posted on March 30, 2010
A landmark $800,000 jury award to a Michigan teenager who was sexually harassed for years by schoolmates sends a message to school districts that taking action against individual students is not enough when there is a pattern of bullying.A federal jury in Detroit agreed with the parents of Dane Patterson, now 19, that the Hudson Area Schools district showed deliberate indifference to systemic student-on-student sexual harassment -- even though perpetrators were warned off when they were caught and even left him alone after that...

Appeals Court Sends Shy Bladder Case Down the Drain

Posted on March 27, 2010
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cited an extreme technicality in throwing out a landmark $225,000 jury award to a former Merchant Marine captain who suffers from shy bladder syndrome. Joseph Kinneary A jury in September 2007 found the City of New York liable under the Americans With Disabilities Act for failing to accommodate Captain Joseph Kinneary's inability to urinate on command...

Florida A&M Rattlers Rattled by Dorm Room Porn Video

Posted on March 25, 2010
A trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Florida A&M University pits the venerable, historically black school against the publisher of a "reality porn" website that features "wild sex parties" in college dorm rooms.Daredorm.com is part of a network of sites published by RK Netmedia of Miami that also includes the popular BangBus...

NC Jury Sets Record With $9 Mln Award to Jilted Wife

Posted on March 22, 2010
After a North Carolina jury awarded $9 million to a jilted wife in what may be the largest verdict ever in an alienation of affections case, her husband said they had ?significant problems? in their marriage for years and she should ?take responsibility for her own mistakes...

Guests Beaten at Party Lose Case Over MySpace Invite

Posted on March 17, 2010
Issuing an open invitation to a party on MySpace did not set the stage for three men to be beaten and stabbed at the party, a California appeals court has ruled in throwing out a lawsuit against the host. Clive Boustred The men alleged Clive Boustred, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, had a ?higher social responsibility? because he, in effect, invited the ?whole world? to a May 7, 2007 party at his castle-like Soquel Hills, Calif...

Judge Puts Killer Giraffe Spoof Story Back on Web

Posted on March 17, 2010
A Louisiana judge has protected the satirical expression of the publisher of a ?fake news? Web site from the misguided legal attack of a wildlife sanctuary that objected to a story about a killer giraffe.Nicholas Brilleaux's Hammond Action News mostly pokes fun at public officials and institutions in Tangipahoa Parish, La...

Dad Sues Over Trauma of Seeing Parrot Attack Toddler

Posted on March 13, 2010
A man who allegedly saw a parrot bite off and eat part of his toddler son's finger at a Florida resort has filed a ?bystander? lawsuit for emotional distress damages ?- even though he may have helped provoke the bird's attack.The parrot, a Blue-and-Gold Macaw, was an attraction at the Tiki Bar restaurant in the Palm Beach Shores resort...

Customer "Upskirted" at Store Loses Privacy Lawsuit

Posted on March 11, 2010
A customer at a T.J. Maxx store in upstate New York has lost her lawsuit against the retailer for allowing a man to take photos up her skirt by using her as ?human bait? in a sting operation.Security workers did not warn customers that they were surreptitiously videotaping the man as he visited the store in Watertown, N...

Scents Alive! Perfume Allergy Case Settles for $100,000

Posted on March 08, 2010
A Detroit city planner with an allergy to perfume is savoring the sweet smell of legal success after the city agreed to pay her $100,000 and be more sensitive to the chemically sensitive.The agreement -? obtained by On Point through a public records act request -- settled Susan McBride's lawsuit under the Americans With Disabilities Act which alleged the City of Detroit failed to reasonably accommodate her allergy after she complained that a co-worker's perfume made it difficult for her to breathe...

Teen's Suit Puts Mug-Shot Publisher Against the Wall

Posted on March 04, 2010
A new publication in Lincoln, Neb., milks mug shots for humor. But a teenager whose arrest photo appeared in Cuffed doesn't see the funny side of it and has sued the publisher for misappropriating his image.The case could be closely watched by other publications around the country -? both print and online ?- that have capitalized on the public's morbid interest in mug shots...

Airline Settles "Reckless" Baggage Handling Lawsuit

Posted on March 02, 2010
Limiting its liability to a group of only 13 airline passengers, British Airways (NYSE: BAY) has settled a first-of-its kind lawsuit that accused the airline of being ?inexcusably reckless? in its handling of passengers' baggage.The suit was originally filed in September 2007 as a proposed class action on behalf of all adult passengers who traveled internationally on a BA flight between Sept...

Calling Someone "Gay" Still Defamatory in Texas

Posted on February 26, 2010
What one court has called ?a veritable sea change in social attitudes about homosexuality? has evidently not reached Texas where a judge ruled that an airport security guard can sue a radio show host for calling him ?gay? on the air. Rickey Smiley Henry Robinson alleged the imputation that he is homosexual was defamatory as a matter of law in his suit against Rickey Smiley of the Dallas radio station known as ?The Beat...

Case Over Fake MySpace Page Chills Student Speech

Posted on February 23, 2010
Several recent court rulings have been protective of off-campus student speech -? with the exception of a very shaky decision that a dissenting judge said ?vests school officials with dangerously overbroad censorship discretion.?All the cases address a First Amendment issue that has yet to come before the U...

Mom Says Hospital Gave Her Wrong Baby to Breastfeed

Posted on February 23, 2010
Because of a hospital's error, Jennifer Spiegel became an involuntary wet nurse to another woman's newborn son. Now she is suing the hospital for its malpractice in providing her with the wrong baby to breastfeed.Maternity ward staff at Evanston Hospital in a Chicago suburb quickly realized Spiegel's own baby was still in the nursery and took the baby she was inadvertently breastfeeding away from her...

Motorist Who Flipped off Cop Gets $50,000 From City

Posted on February 18, 2010
The citation of a motorist for displaying his middle finger to a police officer -? what a judge described as a ?somewhat innocuous? gesture -- turned out to be quite expensive for the City of Pittsburgh as it agreed to pay $50,000 to the bird-flipper...

Disabled Gamer's Access Suit Doesn't Play With Court

Posted on February 15, 2010
A Los Angeles judge has refused to apply disability law to the virtual gaming world, dismissing the case of a vision-impaired gamer who claimed Sony Corp. illegally denied him full access to its products.Andrew Stern does not have a claim against Sony under the Americans With Disabilities Act because he failed to allege the required ?nexus? between its online role-playing games and ?an actual physical place,? U...

Jury Says Birth of Down Syndrome Child Not Wrongful

Posted on February 13, 2010
A Virginia woman lost a ?wrongful birth? lawsuit after a judge denied her request to exclude testimony that she would have aborted her pregnancy if her doctor had told her the child would be born with Down Syndrome.A ?triple screen? blood test that screens for genetic disorders in fetuses showed Andrea Wilkie had a one-in-37 chance of delivering a Down Syndrome child...

"Girls Gone Wild" Plaintiff Admits Making Porn Films

Posted on February 11, 2010
With trial only weeks away in a lawsuit accusing "Girls Gone Wild" mogul Joe Francis of sexually exploiting minors, the plaintiff with perhaps the strongest claim has admitted she appeared in two pornographic films despite her previous denials. Joe Francis What impact the admission of the plaintiff known only as ?Plaintiff B? may have on the trial is as yet unclear...

Crack-Dealing Suit Against Mistress Goes up in Smoke

Posted on February 06, 2010
The ex-lover of a Northern California man did not injure his wife by providing him with crack cocaine during their two-year affair, a jury has ruled in a case of sex, drugs and a law that makes drug dealers liable for the injuries they cause.The defense verdict means the wife of Marc Siciliano, 53, of San Rafael will not recover any damages under California's Drug Dealer Liability Act (DDLA)...

Tenant's Gripe Tweet Too Vague to be Libel, Judge Says

Posted on January 30, 2010
A Chicago judge has dismissed the first libel case involving a single Twitter posting, finding that an apartment renter's gripe about her landlord was too vague and imprecise to be construed as defamatory.Horizon Realty Group, which manages 15 buildings in Chicago, filed the libel suit in July after Amanda Bonnen wrote in a Twitter post, ?Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it's okay...

Copperfield Wants U.S. to Keep Evidence From Accuser

Posted on January 26, 2010
Magician David Copperfield has some sharp words for federal prosecutors who have refused to acknowledge that they dropped a sexual assault investigation against him because of the accuser's lack of credibility.A Washington state woman has alleged Copperfield raped her in 2007 while she was a guest on his private island in the Bahamas...

Bingo for "Bruno!" Baron Cohen KO's Verbal Spat Case

Posted on January 21, 2010
A California judge has dismissed a verbal assault case against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, finding that a woman initiated a confrontation with him during the filming of a scene for the movie ?Bruno? and ?not vice versa.?The scene featured Cohen, in the guise of the film's flamboyantly gay title character, discussing his love life while calling a bingo game that Richelle Olson, the executive director of Desert Valley Charities, ran for the elderly in Palmdale, a desert community near Los Angeles...

"No Sex Involved" in Orgy Viewing Case, Hotel Insists

Posted on January 18, 2010
A former manager at the Hilton Minneapolis who claimed she walked in on an orgy at a company sales conference has ?sensationalized? what was only ?some questionable behavior,? the hotel's owner says in arguing that her sexual harassment case should not go to trial...

"Knockoff's" Lawyer Makes North Face Butt of Humor

Posted on January 15, 2010
Legal prose can often do with some spicing up. But the attorney for the 19-year-old creator of a ?parody? outdoor clothing line may have gone too far in denying allegations that The South Butt violates the trademark rights of The North Face brand...

Sony Launches Defense to Gamer's Equal Access Suit

Posted on January 11, 2010
Just as Barnes & Noble is not required to stock a Braille version of every book it sells, video game manufacturers should not have to adapt their products for the disabled, Sony Corp. says in response to a lawsuit filed by a vision-impaired gamer...

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