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Jury Clears Publisher of Injuring Girl with Gay Porn Ad

Posted on December 20, 2010
A former reality show contestant has lost an unusual negligent mailing case as a Tennessee jury found a publisher was not liable for exposing his 12-year-old daughter to an ad for a gay porn magazine it had mailed to him. Kent Blackwelder Kent Blackwelder's daughter thought she was getting an offer for a Disney video when she opened a plain white envelope marked only with the words, ?New! Free DVD Offer Enclosed...

Woman Sues TV Preacher for Failing to Disclose Affair

Posted on December 16, 2010
In what may be the first ?truth-in-hiring? case of its kind, a former employee of a televangelist has sued Rev. Marcus Lamb for inducing her to work for him under the false pretense that he conformed to ?the highest standards of Christian behavior.? Marcus and Joni Lamb discuss his infidelity on their "Celebration" show Jeannette Hawkins alleges she accepted the job of director of marketing for Lamb's Daystar Television Network in the belief that it was a ?moral? place to work...

Court OKs Case Over 'Dangerous' Toilet Roll Dispenser

Posted on December 13, 2010
A bizarre restroom accident has taken personal injury law in a novel direction, with a divided Michigan Supreme Court ruling that a woman can sue a restaurant where she allegedly broke her hand while using a toilet roll dispenser.It's hard to imagine a more innocuous appliance but Sandra Schooley alleges that the cover on a plastic toilet-paper dispenser at a Texas Roadhouse restaurant in Taylor, Mich...

"Libel-Proof" Defense Fails in Case Over Britney Book

Posted on November 23, 2010
Former Britney Spears manager Osama "Sam" Lutfi has won a major legal victory as a California appeals court ruled that he was not "libel-proof" when Spears's mother published allegedly defamatory statements about him in a tell-all book. Sam Lutfi Lynne Spears California's state courts have not recognized the ?libel-proof? doctrine but Lynne Spears argued that it applied to ?Through the Storm,? in which she depicted him as a ?Svengali?-esque figure who, in order to control Britney Spears, hid her cell phones and dog and disabled several of her cars...

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'Too Sensual' Woman Files Appearance Bias Lawsuit

Posted on November 20, 2010
?Hotness discrimination? lawsuits are getting hotter, with a Florida woman now alleging that her former supervisors at a nonprofit considered her ?too sensual? and told her that her large breasts were ?too distracting.? Amy-Erin Blakely (left) and attorney Gloria Allred Plaintiffs in discrimination cases based on physical appearance usually claim they were treated unfairly in the workplace because they were not attractive enough...

Girl's Suit Over 'N-word' Reading is Free Speech Chiller

Posted on November 16, 2010
First Amendment freedoms should trump the sensitivities of an African-American girl who claims a fifth-grade teacher racially harassed her by reading aloud passages from a book about slavery that included the N-word. The civil rights lawsuit filed by Jala Petree of Macomb County, Mich...

Jury Socks Husband With $2.4M Award in Herpes Case

Posted on November 13, 2010
A Beverly Hills real estate investor who allegedly contracted genital herpes while cheating on his wife with several other women has been ordered to pay her $2.4 million in damages for infecting her with the sexually transmitted disease.A jury awarded the damages after a trial in which George Saadian's wife argued that he at the very least had reason to know he was infected with herpes because he engaged in the ?high-risk behavior? of having unprotected sex with escorts...

Judge Finds Woman in 'Orgy' Video Did Not Go 'Wild'

Posted on November 08, 2010
A St. Louis judge has thrown out a jury verdict in an involuntary nudity case, finding that the evidence showed a woman did not consent to appearing topless in a ?Girls Gone Wild? video by dancing flirtatiously for the cameraman. ?It is clear from viewing the video that plaintiff was an unwilling participant in the exposure of her breasts and can be seen visibily mouthing 'no,'? Circuit Court Judge John J...

Diner Makes Legal Meal of Injury From Artichoke Leaves

Posted on November 05, 2010
A Florida man who says he was injured from eating the leaves of a grilled artichoke has filed a lawsuit that may test whether a restaurant has a duty to explain to patrons how to eat unfamiliar food items.Grilled artichoke isn't on the regular menu at Houston's in North Miami Beach...

Court Tosses Widow's Trauma Case Over Faulty Casket

Posted on November 03, 2010
A distraught widow cannot recover damages for the trauma of seeing the casket containing her late husband fall to the ground as pallbearers were carrying it to the gravesite, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals has ruled.Crystal Ulrich says she has had a recurring nightmare of her husband falling out of his casket since his funeral...

Teen's Scary Fog Machine Suit Spooks Haunted House

Posted on October 29, 2010
A number of recent personal injury lawsuits ? including one in which a teenage girl claims chemicals used in a fog machine caused her to have an asthma attack ? may be putting a scare into operators of haunted houses.According to the Haunted House Association, there are more than 2,000 haunted attractions in the U...

Man Kicked in Eye Wins $605K From Careless Stripper

Posted on October 25, 2010
A Florida man who won a $650,000 judgment against a stripper may have had a stronger case than others in which strip club patrons have sued over being injured by the errant footwear of dancers. Hunter Tylo The judgment filed Oct. 6 compensates Michael Ireland for the injuries he suffered in September 2008 when Sakeena ?Suki? Shageer, a dancer at the Cheetah's club in West Palm Beach, kicked him in the eye, leaving him with chronic double vision...

Soap Star Hit With $885,000 Award for Suing Therapist

Posted on October 19, 2010
A Las Vegas judge has dealt a crushing blow to soap opera star Hunter Tylo, ordering her to pay nearly $885,000 in damages to a psychotherapist whom she sued for negligent treatment of her children. Hunter Tylo Shanna Downing, a licensed clinical social worker, counseled Tylo's children while their parents were going through a divorce...

Ex-Inmate Sues Women for Watching His Urine Tests

Posted on October 17, 2010
An unusual civil rights lawsuit pits a Pennsylvania man against female employees of a halfway house who allegedly ?humiliated and embarrassed? him by forcing him to urinate in front of them for drug tests.Jason Zullinger's allegations of urine test trauma appear to be more severe than any in case law...

Couple Sue Diner Over Son's 'Severe' Hot Sauce Injury

Posted on October 13, 2010
The parents of a Tennessee boy are bringing some legal heat against a restaurant where a ?reckless? waiter allegedly served him a condiment without telling him it was the ultra-fiery Blair's Mega Death Hot Sauce.Restaurants are often sued for serving customers with contaminated food or food adulterated with ?foreign objects? ranging from cockroaches to condoms...

Judge Settles Case Over Refusal to Marry Mixed Couple

Posted on October 09, 2010
A former Louisiana justice of the peace has settled a lawsuit over his refusal to officiate at the wedding of an interracial couple ? but not before equating mixed-race children to those born with birth defects. Keith Bardwell Keith Bardwell, who was representing himself, had asserted judicial immunity as a defense to the suit, which alleged he acted with ?deliberate indifference? to the civil rights of the couple and intentionally inflicted emotional distress on them...

SeaWorld Blasts 'Improper' Suit Over Trainer's Death

Posted on October 06, 2010
The operator of SeaWorld Orlando has lashed out at a lawsuit over a killer whale's drowning of a trainer, arguing that the parents of a 10-year-old boy who witnessed the tragedy have made ?an improper attack? on its reputation. Tilikum the orca with trainer Dawn Brancheau The death of trainer Dawn Brancheau on Feb...

Gambling Addiction Case Comes out Trumps for Casino

Posted on October 03, 2010
In a decision that a dissenting justice called ?particularly disturbing,? the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that a compulsive gambler cannot sue a casino for enticing her to gamble when it knew of her addiction.The ruling in Jenny Kephart's case was part of a double jackpot for the gaming industry as the Supreme Court also decided Sept...

Court's Ruling in Failure-to-Cheer Case Deserves Boos

Posted on September 30, 2010
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals doesn't deserve any cheers for a ruling in which it found a high-school cheerleader's protest against an athlete she accused of raping her was not protected speech under the First Amendment. Silsbee High School The cheerleader, identified only as H...

Mom Sues Sex Ad Website for Aiding Daughter's Pimp

Posted on September 25, 2010
The mother of a 15-year-old Missouri girl who worked as a child prostitute has opened up a new front in the legal war on online sex ads, suing the publisher of the Backpage.com website for aiding and abetting prostitution and child pornography.The plaintiff, identified only as P...

KISS' Simmons Gets Over Legal Hump in Assault Case

Posted on September 21, 2010
A Los Angeles judge has ruled that KISS rocker Gene Simmons can proceed with an unusual lawsuit in which he is seeking a court order declaring he did not grind his groin into an ESPN makeup artist. Victoria Jackson has described the preemptive suit that Simmons filed against her May 14 as a ?legal humping...

Court Bars Molester From Suing Parents of Her Victim

Posted on September 19, 2010
The Wisconsin Court of Appeals has refused to follow a convicted child molester ?down the rabbit hole? and allow her to sue the parents of the 13-year-old boy she assaulted for failing to protect him from her. Ann Knopf The boy and his father sued Ann Knopf, a former Prescott, Wisc...

Britney Bodyguard Sues Over Witnessing Child Abuse

Posted on September 15, 2010
A former bodyguard for Britney Spears who says he saw her ?savagely? beat her elder son with a belt is pushing the legal envelope by suing her based on his observation of her allegedly outrageous behavior. Britney Spears with sons Sean Preston (left) and Jayden Courts have allowed claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress in a few cases where the observer of ?extreme and outrageous conduct? was a family member of the target of the conduct...

Woman Seeks New Trial Over Inclusion in 'Orgy' Video

Posted on September 15, 2010
A Missouri woman is arguing that a jury improperly ruled against her in an involuntary nudity case because the hardcore content of a ?Girls Gone Wild? video ?exceeded the scope? of any consent she may have given to appearing topless in it. ?There was no evidence in the [trial] record upon which it could be inferred that the Plaintiff knowingly agreed to have images of her bare breasts placed on a DVD with hard core pornographic images and scenes,? the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, says in a motion for a new trial...

Judge to Hear 'Odious Squabble' Over Lawyer's Footsie

Posted on September 10, 2010
Stepping into what he called an ?odious squabble,? a Florida judge will hear testimony as to whether a defense lawyer in an insurance coverage case coached a witness by tapping her on the foot during a deposition. Lawyer Kenneth Engerrand's "footsie" with a witness Plaintiffs' counsel have accused Houston attorney Kenneth G...

Dad's Immunity in Drowning of Child Splits Mich. Court

Posted on September 06, 2010
The case of a 3-year-old girl who drowned in a lake after her father left her unattended has prompted a Michigan judge to call for the abolition of an immunity that bars minors from suing their parents for negligence. Judge Elizabeth Gleicher The Michigan Supreme Court has limited parental immunity to cases in which ?the alleged negligent act involves an exercise of reasonable parental authority over the child? and ?the alleged negligent act involves an exercise of reasonable parental discretion with respect to the provision of food, clothing, housing, medical and dental services, and other care...

Court Raps Judge Over 'Moral' Views in Adoption Case

Posted on September 02, 2010
The Georgia Court of Appeals has rejected the reactionary views of a family court judge who ruled that a foster parent could not adopt a child because her out-of-wedlock relationship with a man was ?immoral.? Judge David Roper ?The General Assembly has not prohibited unmarried couples from adopting children,? the court said in a stinging rebuke of Richmond County Superior Court Judge J...

Off With His Head! Woman Sues 'Mad Hatter' Actor

Posted on August 31, 2010
Experimental theater clashes with premises liability law in the case of a Kentucky woman who claims she was injured while watching a performance of a circus-inspired play when one of the actors balanced his knee on her head. ?Lookingglass Alice? by David Catlin has been described as a highly physical and acrobatic adaptation of Lewis Carroll?s ?Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland? and ?Through the Looking Glass? which, like other experimental pieces, breaks down the traditional boundaries between actor and audience...

Charity Worker Accuses CEO of Hypnotic Seduction

Posted on August 24, 2010
A former charity worker may be pushing the limits of sexual harassment law by alleging that her boss required her to participate in ?relaxation sessions? on his ?magic couch? during which he hypnotized and molested her. Susan Patroski B. Scott Finnell Susan Patroski's quid pro quo harassment case hinges on what allegedly happened behind closed doors in the Pittsburgh office of the CEO of Pressley Ridge, which provides clinical services to troubled children...

Unusual Appeal is Expert's Latest Challenge to Judges

Posted on August 13, 2010
Expert witness Dr. David Egilman was previously successful in showing he had standing to appeal a judicial order in a case in which he was not a party ? but that case may not help him in his latest challenge to a trial judge. Dr. David Egilman The Colorado Court of Appeals in 2002 overturned a sanctions order against Egilman in a toxic tort case in which he testified on behalf of four nuclear plant workers...

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