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Mom Says Store's Snake Infected Toddler With Bug

Posted on January 09, 2010
An Illinois law that requires pet shops to notify customers of safe reptile-handling practices may not apply to the case of a 2-year-old boy who allegedly contracted salmonella after petting a snake at a reptile store and zoo.The mother of Trevor Wirtz filed a lawsuit that alleges Serpent Safari of Gurnee, Ill...

Germ-Free Wafer Dispensers Spark Unholy Legal War

Posted on January 05, 2010
"Purity" host dispenser "Communalabra" host dispenser Proving that nothing is too sacred for a lawsuit, a Minnesota supplier of ?churchware? products has sued a former executive for trying to sell a knockoff of its proprietary system for the germ-free dispensing of communion wafers...

Open Court Ruling Could Force Palin Into Custody Deal

Posted on January 02, 2010
An Alaska judge's decision allowing public access to proceedings in a custody battle over Sarah Palin's grandson could encourage her to make a deal with the child's father rather than risk an ?onslaught? by ?scandal-hungry tabloids.? Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston Palin's personal attorney, who is not a family law specialist, is representing her daughter Bristol in a petition for custody of one-year-old Tripp Johnston...

Iowa Court Affirms $1.5M Verdict in STD Infection Case

Posted on December 31, 2009
The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld a $1.5 million jury award against a dentist for infecting a woman with a sexually transmitted disease, finding that he caused harm to her ?most intimate and private interests? with his ?reckless? behavior.The verdict was one of the largest in a case of negligent infliction of an STD and included $800,000 in punitive damages...

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Man Wants Ex-Wife's Breast Implants Declared "Assets"

Posted on December 27, 2009
Justices of the North Dakota Supreme Court appear to see family law going down a slippery slope if they accept a man's novel theory that his former wife's breast implants should be counted against her in their divorce.Courts may consider anything classified as a ?marital asset? in dividing property between a divorcing couple...

Yahoo! Fails Again to Stop Lawsuit Over Nude Photos

Posted on December 23, 2009
An Oregon judge has refused to dismiss an unprecedented breach-of-contract lawsuit, finding that a woman can sue Yahoo! for breaking a promise to remove nude photos of her from its website.U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken's decision is the latest milestone in a four-year-old case which she had previously dismissed in November 2005...

Guest Sues Vegas Hotel for Failing to Warn of Blackout

Posted on December 18, 2009
In a Rube Goldberg-esque lawsuit, a man who uses an electric breathing device to sleep alleges that the failure of a Las Vegas hotel to warn him of a planned power outage ultimately caused him to trip and fall in his room, injuring his hand.A hotel operator owes guests a duty only to keep the premises in a reasonably safe condition for use and premises liability cases against hotels involving power outages are few and far between...

Colorado Judge Fumes Over Ban on Theatrical Smoking

Posted on December 16, 2009
Anne Archer as Mrs. Robinson in production of "The Graduate" A first-of-its-kind Colorado Supreme Court decision upholding the state's ban on theatrical smoking has inspired a dramatic dissent from a justice who disputed that a fake or prop cigarette is an adequate substitute for real smoking...

Chuck Yeager Keeps Flying With Publicity Rights Suit

Posted on December 13, 2009
Famed test pilot Charles ?Chuck? Yeager has won another undeserved victory in his publicity rights lawsuit against AT&T as a California judge ruled, in effect, that his breaking of the sound barrier is a protectible intellectual property asset.U...

Fish Family's Feud Was on Slain LA Lawyer's Docket

Posted on December 10, 2009
Jeffrey Tidus Prominent Los Angeles attorney Jeffrey A. Tidus, who was shot dead this week outside his home, had recently devoted much of his practice to a family feud over a business that claims to be Southern California's largest seafood distributor...

Stripper's DUI Case Survives Club's Latest Attack

Posted on December 08, 2009
An Alabama judge today refused for a second time to dismiss a former stripper's unusual negligence lawsuit, ruling that a strip club may be liable for allowing her to drive home from work ?in a highly intoxicated state.?The decision paves the way for a trial next month in Patsy Hamaker's case over the injuries she sustained when she wrecked her car after working at The Furnace club in Birmingham, Ala...

Expert: "Ambush" Interview Caused Woman's Suicide

Posted on December 07, 2009
Melinda Duckett A Harvard University psychiatrist has concluded that a woman who killed herself after talk-show host Nancy Grace interviewed her about the disappearance of her two-year-old son was a victim of "ambush" journalism.?Melinda Duckett's experience with Nancy Grace and her associates at CNN ...

Foot-Nibbling Fish Spawn Salon Owner's Rights Suit

Posted on December 02, 2009
A first-of-its-kind civil rights lawsuit pits the public health concerns of Arizona regulators against the ?economic liberty? of a nail salon owner who wants to provide her customers with the latest fad in foot care -? fish pedicures.Cindy Vong, owner of LaVie Nails & Spa in Gilbert, Ariz...

Interracial Couple's Case Tests Judicial Immunity

Posted on October 25, 2009
An interracial couple suing a Louisiana justice of the peace for refusing to officiate at their wedding may be able to pierce the judicial immunity shield by showing that performing weddings is not part of his judicial duties. Keith Bardwell The bizarre, Jim Crow-esque behavior of Justice Keith Bardwell of Tangipahoa Parish has given him international notoriety...

NY Post's Report of Sex Fantasy Found Not Libelous

Posted on July 09, 2009
"Ava" Cordero A statement reporting that someone had a sexual fantasy is distinguishable from one reporting that the person acted on the fantasy, a New York appeals court has ruled in dismissing a transgender person's $100 million libel lawsuit against the New York Post...

Dixie Chick Makes Surprise Admission to Libel Plaintiff

Posted on July 06, 2009
Dixie Chicks member Natalie Maines has made a surprising admission that may weaken her defense against a libel lawsuit -? she never read the 200-page court document which she cited in implicating a man in a triple-murder case. Natalie Maines Terry Hobbs of Memphis sued Maines in November, alleging she libeled him in an open letter posted on the Dixie Chicks' website which ?taken as a whole, accused Plaintiff of committing the murder[s]? of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Ark...

Drug Found in Jacko's Home Cited in Malpractice Suits

Posted on July 05, 2009
At least four medical malpractice lawsuits have been filed in recent years alleging that hospital patients died from overdoses of Diprivan ?- the powerful sedative found in Michael Jackson's home after his death.One patient, Chester Forrester, allegedly went into ?respiratory and/or cardiac arrest? only four minutes after a physician at a Norfolk, Va...

This Time, Tony La Russa Settles With Twitter for Real

Posted on July 03, 2009
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has officially dismissed his lawsuit over a fake profile on Twitter as part of a settlement in which the social media website did not have to pay him anything.A settlement of the case -? the first to be filed by a celebrity against Twitter ?- was first reported in early June, with La Russa saying Twitter had agreed to pay his legal fees and make a donation to his Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF)...

Man Burned at Burning Man Assumed Risk of Injury

Posted on July 01, 2009
Get too close to the Burning Man fire and you assume the ?obvious and inherent? risk of being burned, a California appeals court has ruled in dismissing a personal injury lawsuit against the operators of the iconic countercultural arts festival.The burning of a 60-foot wooden sculpture in the figure of a man is the centerpiece of the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada...

Lawyer's "Prove Me Wrong" Offer No Joke to Student

Posted on June 27, 2009
J. Cheney Mason A Texas law student may have taken a $1 million ?prove me wrong? challenge seriously, but the criminal defense lawyer who made the challenge on a TV news show appears to have done so with enough tongue in cheek to avoid liability for not paying up...

N.Y. Jury Chills Civil Rights in Strip Search Case

Posted on June 25, 2009
A jury has reached a chilling decision in the civil rights case of a Southampton, N.Y., woman, clearing four police officers in the exclusive resort community of liability for performing a strip search on her after a minor marijuana bust.As a misdemeanor arrestee, Stacey Hartline had a Fourth Amendment right to be protected from a strip search unless police had an ?individualized reasonable suspicion? that she was hiding illegal drugs on her person...

Bride's Wedding Fiasco Suit Really Takes the Cake

Posted on June 18, 2009
Sandra Newsom's wedding disaster lawsuit may -? literally ?- take the cake. The New York woman has sued a cruise ship operator for ruining her wedding reception by serving a coconut-containing cake to which she had an allergic reaction.The complaint against Carnival Cruise Lines, which was filed in Miami, does not allege the catering staff of the Carnival Freedom knew Newsom was ?severely allergic? to coconut before she had her on-board wedding reception on Feb...

Woody Allen Got $5M After Judge Shredded Defense

Posted on June 16, 2009
A week before American Apparel agreed to pay Woody Allen $5 million for misappropriating his image, a judge had shredded the clothing company's First Amendment defense based on its CEO's ?mental processes,? On Point has learned.The settlement of Allen's publicity rights suit was announced May 18 as the case was about to go to trial...

"Religulous" Rev Sued for $600,000 "Scheme of Lies"

Posted on June 12, 2009
Rev. Jeremiah Cummings Two former followers of Florida preacher Jeremiah Cummings may have dealt his defamation lawsuit against the makers of the documentary ?Religulous? a fatal blow by alleging he conned them out of $600,000 through a ?well-designed scheme of deception and lies...

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Posted on January 09, 2009
Victoria's Secret appears to have developed a double-D sized products liability problem. With the addition of a case filed March 6 in Louisiana, at least 11 women have sued the company over the past 15 months over injuries that allegedly resulted from defectively manufactured undergarments (see link below)...

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