Francesca75

History of United States has been ripe with examples of baseless and weird lawsuits. These lawsuits seem to be a mockery of the Judicial System and bring a shame to the whole nation. Some examples of such eccentric and unusual lawsuits are as follows:
· A Student sues the school, for providing summer homework, alleging that it creates unnecessary stress and unfair workload. (From the Associated Press, January 21, 2005)
· A couple sued the American airline claiming that they didn’t have enough leg room and subsequently were cramped aboard a flight to Paris. According to the May14, 2004 edition of Chicago-Sun times, they are seeking $1,00,000
· A train conductor settled for $8.5 million from a railroad after claiming a collision between his commuter train and a freight train worsened his alcoholism. (From the Associated Press Feb 2, 2005.)
· A woman sues a railroad on suffering minor injuries after getting hit by a train while walking along railroad tracks. She is suing the railroad for more than $30,000 as she says the railroad didn’t warn people that trains were likely to travel on the tracks she was walking along. (Associated Press Newswires, November 5, 2004)
· A child named Jose sues the school district when he sat and broke a wooden bench provided by the school authorities. He fractured his pelvis bone in the process.
Such frivolous lawsuits have led to a greater need for Tort Reforms in the Judicial System. Mr. Dick Weekley’s Texans for Lawsuit Reforms is one organization that is dedicated to bringing fairness in the judicial system.

Cinema

It's all true, that why I could never get into Law as a career. It's major backstabbing and plain greed. People do not realize that most attorney's have known each other for years. Some are in same union or clubs and or were old pals in college. The court room becomes a real stage way more acting than any Shakespeare production. They get more rich and send people to prison with no remorse. Maybe thats why most are alcoholics or drug users? But the frivolous lawsuits are at an alltime high and tax payers pay for most of the charades. It is out of control, I agree.

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deadman

If you think those are bad you should see Canada

Court overturns father's grounding of 12-year-old - Yahoo! News

Yes that is no joke.

UnderINK

You need a new link. I found it via AFP. Anyway, that's a little ridiculous. I give props to the father for trying to be a parent. Apparently he relinquished custody of the child because he couldn't control her anymore. She'll just grow up on the street corner, of course, if she insists on posting inappropriate material on dating sites. She's only twelve and thinking about sex. Where has the world gone?