Legal battle by PETA over selfie photo taken by a monkey. Selfie Monkey Case Gets Stranger Just when you think the world can’t get any stranger than it already is, you learn about a case of a monkey engaged in a lawsuit of copyright of a selfie that it took. We’ll get into [...]
Lawyer loses his finger. Lawyer’s Finger Severed at Popular Bar Whenever alcohol is involved some odd things can happen, and most of the time they aren’t very good. That’s what Virginia attorney Robert Dyer found out in 2012, and what caused him to sue Smith Point, a bar in Washington D.C. when [...]
Coffee's Too Hot Not That Hot Coffee Case When you think about someone suing over being burned by spilling hot coffee on themselves, you tend to think about the original McDonald’s case where an elderly woman received third-degree burns – yes, the case was very horrific and not the punchline that many people [...]
Is Bernie Tiede guilty of murder? The True Case of Bernie Tiede If this case sounds like something out of the movies, then you would not be entirely wrong. In fact, director Richard Linklater found the case so intriguing that he did turn it into a movie called Bernie starring Jack Black and [...]
Legal battle over the use of the image of a doll by a band Barbie Girl Sued by Barbie Doll Do you remember the band Aqua from their heyday in the late 90s and early 2000s? They are still rather popular, and they have some truly infectious songs that get stuck in your [...]
Pastor sues city after protesting demon mascot. Pastor in Georgia Sues a Demon While this might not exactly be like a scene out of The Exorcist… well, it’s nothing like a scene from The Exorcist – but a pastor in Georgia in 2011 did decide that he would do battle with a demon. [...]
Guy who dresses up as Bigfoot to entertain or scare hikers sues state for making him leave the mountain. Park Rangers and the State of New Hampshire Sued by Bigfoot People sometimes make some decisions that get them into trouble. Let’s take Jonathan Doyle for instance. In 2011, the performance artist thought that [...]
Celebrity law suit over use of image in video game. Lohan and Gravano Sue Take-Two In 2014, actress Lindsay Lohan and Karen Gravano, who was on Mob Wives, sued the company Take-Two, which published Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 5. The women claimed that the company had used their images, and some circumstances [...]
Co-worker gets restraining order for harassing emails. News Anchor in Wisconsin Gets Unsettling Emails The news anchors that you watch on your local morning news always seem to get along and generally have some silly, somewhat corny banter going on between them. They often seem like happy people ready to greet you each [...]
Daughter brings father to court over being grounded Court Overturns Grounding of 12 Year Old in Canada Parents can sometimes have it rough. They try to raise their children right, and sometimes that means doling out punishments, and often those punishments are in the form of grounding the child. The grounding can mean [...]