This case report dates back to late 2005, but for some reason was only recently brought to my attention: Greene County, Missouri (Springfield)- Assault & Battery; Case #102CC1251; Judge: Mark FitzsimmonsVerdict: 12/21/05 for Plaintiff $65,000.00.Chris Ames v. Friendly Ford; Jay WiseLength…
On Wednesday, a judge in Erie, Pennsylvania, ruled that Dominica Juliano and her mother had failed to present enough evidence to prove that 12-year-old Dominica had actually been injured by a bar-code scanner, as plaintiffs had claimed. According to the…
This one is weird, and not just because Steven Seagal’s involved.
According to the New York Post, 56-year-old Sherri Perper has sued a costume company and other businesses for injuries she sustained at a Halloween party in 2008. Perper allegedly sustained leg fractures after a fall she says was caused by…
If you think the "Legal Tool of the Week" might be, let's say, Westlaw or some new iPhone app, you are at the wrong website. In fact, it is William Ogletree, a 62-year-old Texas attorney who is the owner of…
More sandwich news today: the Fourth Circuit has reinstated a lawsuit filed by a Florida carnival operator who claimed that his face and lips were burned by hot grease that exploded out of a McDonald's fried-chicken sandwich when he bit…
It's been almost a year since my last mascot story — that one was in March 2009, after somebody punched McGruff the Crime Dog in the face — so I had been on the lookout for one. But I did not…
We don’t know for sure, but there are theories.
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The letter-box flap snapped shut on his right hand, said English postman Dennis Coleman, and he thereby suffered a cut to his middle finger that was "deep and pouring with blood." Worst of all, Coleman said, that was his throwing…