Dana Buckman of Rochester, New York, is suing AutoZone and two of its employees for personal injury and emotional distress after a beating he suffered at the hands of the employees. He was not deterred from suing by the fact…
The artist formerly (and still) known as Meat Loaf, whose real name is the less tasty Michael Aday, is suing his former collaborator Jim Steinman for $50 million over the rights to the phrase "Bat Out of Hell." That was…
The AP reported this week on a new contract suit filed in Orange County Superior Court in California. The lawsuit involves an alleged agreement to settle a dispute over $170,000 that Jinsoo Kim had invested in a Korean corporation owned…
Police had more difficulty than they expected in catching Laura Lee Medley, because she is not in fact disabled as she had claimed to be in a series of claims she had filed against various public entities. Medley reportedly filed…
Back in 2002, portly Canadian high-school student Ghyslain Raza made a video of himself (after class) imitating a Star Wars character, using a golf-ball retriever as a "lightsaber." He then made the poor decision to leave the videotape lying around. …
Lee Paige, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer and current DEA agent, was making a gun-safety presentation to kids at the Orlando Youth Minority Golf Association on April 9, 2004. I know you know what comes next. Bear with me. This…
And so did his wife.
Leslie Fox and Stephen Cohen have sued the owners of the Nevele Hotel in the Catskills for $20 million in damages allegedly caused by bites from a bedbug infestation when they stayed at the hotel in early July. While I…
This week, a jury in Long Island rejected a plaintiff’s claim that her husband died as a result of negligence by a shrimp-flinging Benihana chef. Jacqueline Colaitis testified that her husband Jerry hurt his neck while trying to dodge a…
Bob Dougherty, the man who made national news last week with a lawsuit claiming Home Depot employees ignored him when he was glued to a toilet seat, passed a polygraph test on Wednesday about the allegations. Dougherty took the test…