Category Archives: Strange Lawsuits

New Jersey Family Sues Landlord, Claims House is Haunted

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Bill Bickel

A New Jersey family is suing their landlord (to be allowed to break their lease), claiming the house they rented is haunted. What intrigues me about this is how they expect to prove their case without finding some friendly ghost willing to testify. Of course if this were a television … Continue reading →

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Lawsuit of the Week: Woman Claims McDonald’s Forced Her to Become a Prostitute

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Bill Bickel

Shelley Lynn was hired by Keith Handley to work at his McDonald’s franchise in Arroyo Grande, California. He soon fired her — wrongly, she claims, and then pressured her into working at a legal brothel in Nevada. Some time during her stint as a prostitute, she married and then divorced … Continue reading →

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J’urinate! (Décision du Tribunal)

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Bill Bickel

A French court dismissed the lawsuit Thursday (March 15), and ordered the plaintiff to pay Google France 1200 euros ($1,570) for legal expenses; not because they felt he’d filed a frivolous lawsuit, but because he’d filed an badly-prepared one, suing Google France when in fact the parent company — Google … Continue reading →

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Man Sues Neighbor For Not Impregnating His Wife

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Bill Bickel

Demetrius Soupolos, of Stuttgart, Germany, is sterile; so he decided to pay a neighbor, Frank Maus, a father of two, to impregnate his wife. After seventy-two attempts over a six-month period — Maus and Frau Soupolos went about this the old-fashioned way — she still hadn’t conceived; so Soupolos threatened … Continue reading →

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The 900 Trillion Dollar Lawsuit

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Bill Bickel

Fausat Ogunbayo, a Staten Island, New York woman, is suing New York City for more than six times the 2011 Gross National Product of the United States because her children were placed into foster care due to her mental illness. Thereby, presumably, making the City’s case for it. The question … Continue reading →

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Thursday Morning Miscellany

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Bill Bickel

Using Statistics in Court (part of a BBC podcast; this is the first ten-minute segment) Sea World Sued Because ”Whales Deserve the Same Protection Against Slavery as Humans. And because the whole reason we pay for a judicial system is to subsidize PETA’s publicity stunts. Joseph Bray Has a Court … Continue reading →

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Update: Escaped Convict Sues His Hostages For Breach of Contract

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Bill Bickel

The judge dismissed the lawsuit today. Why this decision took more than a month is another question entirely.December 8, 2011: Jesse Dimmick, a murder suspect who abducted a Kansas couple while he was on the run in 2009, is now suing his former hostages for breach of contract. Well, “breech … Continue reading →

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CJA’s Top Ten (Eleven, Actually) of 2011

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Bill Bickel

(based on the number of reader comments) 1. Who’s the Most Famous Person Ever to Commit Murder? 2. Muslim Students Sue Catholic University of America for Surrounding Them With Catholic Symbols Which are Incongruous to Their Religion (the accompanying poll had the greatest number of responses by almost a 2-to-1 … Continue reading →

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Publisher of BitTorrents For Dummies Sues BitTorrent Users for Illegally Downloading Their Books

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Bill Bickel

“Do as I say, not as I do. Wait a second… that’s not quite right either…” And yes, when I first saw this headline, I thought it was a fake article from The Onion.

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Lawsuits: Kim Kardashian, Hillary Clinton and Iran, Tuition and Human Rights, and Taliban Toyota

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Bill Bickel

He claims he’s serious: Los Angeles comic Rob Delaney announced plans to organize a class action suit against Kim Kardashian, whose excessively-publicized marriage is ending after seventy-two days. He claims the wedding was a massive publicity stunt designed to garner publicity and television ratings and waste the public’s time and … Continue reading →

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