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Lamest Lawsuit EVER?

Polaris said:
IANAL, however, I was told this by a lawyer regarding my own ongoing lawsuit against (Acme) due to an X preventing a Y from Z which resulted in moi being sent to be sewn up and held overnight in an ER*: the standard time in which to file a lawsuit for personal injury is 2 years from the event itself, and the closer to the event the suit is filed, the better chances of the plaintiff's winning said lawsuit.

This is, of course, all FWIW.



*Yes, being cryptic is necessary for my personal reasons.
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Well it is Acme corporation, I bet you had an accident with their rocket powered roller skates.
 
Mark6 said:
I think the judge still wins out as the lamest (and greediest) lawsuit ever.

Not by much, but wins out.
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I had considered that one when I put up that list, but IMHO it actually is less retarded.

The judge did get his pants lost by those guys, the only thing utterly ridiculous is the sum he wanted for them. So there was some minor harm, he just blew it out of any proportion.

But some of the guys I quoted were asking for even more money from people who had done them NO harm or slight whatsoever.

I mean, for example, you have a guy asking for a total of almost a billion dollars from Nike and Michael Jordan because... apparently Michael Jordan looks a little bit like him. I mean, seriously, neither Michael Jordan nor Nike lost his pants, used his name, flipped him the bird, or really done ANYTHING that affects him in any way whatsoever. Just Michael Jordan's DNA giving him a wee bit of similarity to the plaintiff was enough to ask for some INSANE damages. WTH?

In a damages-asked-per-harm kinda metric, the pants judge is insane, but these guys are dividing by zero, really.
 
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HansMustermann said:
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E.g., the Bird family who sued a hospital for emotional distress, for seeing the doctors rush their mom into emergency. You can't make that kind of thing up.
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This is the kind of thing that just puzzles me. Don't these people have other things to worry about? E.g. the mum being in the hospital?
I friend of mine is a paramedic. He says he and his colleagues are being sued all the time. He had some stories that left me :eek:

For instance: The team was called to an emergency in which a baby was critically injured in some way. The paramedics and the emergency doctor on the scene had to cut open the baby's romper suit to treat him/her.
The baby unfortunately died.

A week later they were sued for cutting the baby's clothes.

Just...:confused:
 
Greedo said:
This is the kind of thing that just puzzles me. Don't these people have other things to worry about? E.g. the mum being in the hospital?
I friend of mine is a paramedic. He says he and his colleagues are being sued all the time. He had some stories that left me :eek:

For instance: The team was called to an emergency in which a baby was critically injured in some way. The paramedics and the emergency doctor on the scene had to cut open the baby's romper suit to treat him/her.
The baby unfortunately died.

A week later they were sued for cutting the baby's clothes.

Just...:confused:
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Reminds me of the joke about the lawyer's new dog. They met when they were both chasing the same ambulance ;)

But seriously, unfortunately greed seems to shut down some people's brains.

Add a culture where everything is solved by litigation instead of clear rules and regulations (because apparently OMG the government is bad, but wasting a couple of percents of the GDP on lawyers isn't) and some lawyers who are proud of their chasing ambulances for a living, and that's what you get. Ultimately when you take the "let the courts solve stuff" route, it boils down to how much of a sob story you think you have for a jury, rather than who's right or whether that's the kind of restrictions we want to live in. And yes, there are plenty of examples where a jury even agreed that the plaintiff has the important part of the fault, but still decided to help themselves to someone else's money to help him/her, because OMG poor old guy/gal needs medical care.

Throw in a dead baby and the modern age "OMG, they saw the baby naked" scare, and it starts to look good.

Add a further idiocy like the polarization between
A) supporting a massive shafting like the tort reform the rich guys want, and
B) being all for letting groups of 12 idiots just decide to award someone else's money to any fellow idiot with a sob story,
and an inability to even conceive that a third option might even exist, or that you can be against one option without supporting the other... and yeah, I don't expect that to be solved any time soon
 
Not sure if this was mentioned in the Yahoo or MSNBC articles cited, but I don't see it mentioned here and will therefore add the fact that this guy's father is a partner at the law firm representing him in this (non-)action. He's therefore in all likelihood getting legal representation for free (or if nothing else Daddy can easily afford it) and is probably motivated more by a desire to cause inconvenience than an actual expectation of winning any money. Sadly the contract claim probably falls on the safe side of the frivolity line (though the remedy of re-staging the wedding surely does not) so neither he nor his lawyer can likely be sanctioned for this waste of the court's time.
 
This is why I'm glad I live in a country where you can't sue people for damages.
 
Just a pack of poseurs against Johnathan Lee Riches.

Some of Riches' defendants are not even people or potentially suable. These include "Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party" and the "13 tribes of Israel". One lawsuit, which includes George Bush, also includes another 783 defendants that cover 56 pages. They include Plato, Nostradamus, Che Guevara, James Hoffa, "Various Buddhist Monks", the Lincoln Memorial, the Eiffel Tower, the USS Cole, the book Mein Kampf, the Garden of Eden, the Roman Empire, the Appalachian Trail, Plymouth Rock, the Holy Grail, Nordic gods, the dwarf planet Pluto, and the entire Three Mile Island.
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