These lawsuits are instigated by lawyers strictly for their own benefit - certainly no consumer ever gets anything of value from them.
What good is a settlement of 12 million dollars when there are millions of members of the class? If lawyers were limited to a few hundred dollars per hour for the actual work done, there would be no class action suits where the actual injury to each of the affected plaintiffs is negligible.
A wide range of toys and children’s products made in China, including those sold by reputable American brands, apparently contained either lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, antimony or chromium.
Model Mary Segovia says that plastic surgeon Dr Jose Manus Barvaria, left her nipples “uneven” when he performed a breast implant on her last month. Ms. Segovia says she has contacted a lawyer and plans to file suit in the National Court of Justice in Mexico City.
I despise every single inbred idiot at Westboro Baptist Church. I personally wish every single member meet an untimely and horrible death by their God, hopefully a gay-themed one. But if I expect to be free to write such things about them, I must also support, as much as it pains me, their right to express their disgusting views.
Sometimes, you cause your own problems. When I was a child in the 1950s, a standard doctrine of common law was that if a person was injured in part due to his or her own negligence, that is to say, their negligence "contributed" to the accident, then they would not be entitled to collect any money damages from another party who supposedly caused the accident.
My company does not provide a "letter of reference" to former employees. Generally we will confirm upon request our employee's dates of employment, salary history and job title. The reason for this is simple: America is too litigious. If we give a negative reference (even if true) we expose ourselves to legal liability...
After the most egregious case of frivolous litigation in American history, The Roy Pearson Chung Dry Cleaner Suit has finally been put to rest. Roy Pearson, the former administrative law judge who unsuccessfully sued his dry cleaner for $54 million over a pair of lost pants, finally lost his case before the D.C. Court of Appeals which handed down its ruling today.
Just like cockroaches that you can't get rid of. former Judge and present-day idiot, Roy Pearson is heading back to court. A three-judge appellate court panel has agreed to hear an appeal of the case next month, more than a year after a judge ruled against him.
My father told me of an uncle of his who was an engineer in 1920's Communist Russia. He had the misfortune of building a bridge which later collapsed and in punishment for which he was thrown up against a wall and summarily shot.
