knightgale

The Stella's are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled
coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonalds. That case inspired
the Stella awards for the most frivolous successful lawsuits in the
United States.

THIS IS TRUE AND FAIR JUSTICE????? I THINK NOT!!!!!

This year's candidates are:

1.Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $780,000 by a
jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who
was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were
understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving
little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.

2.A 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and
medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda
Accord. Mr.Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the
wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hub caps.

3.Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he
had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the
garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning.
He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house
and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation, and
Mr.Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He
subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food.
He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him
undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000.

4.Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500
and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next
door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced
yard.The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might
have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who was
shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

5.A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink
and broke her coccyx (tailbone). The beverage was on the floor because Ms.
Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.


6.Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner
of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom
window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred
while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies
room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded $12,000
and dental.

YIWORKED

There should be a law on the books that when you appeal a case like that and win, that the bimbo jury and the attorney that represented the plantiff should be required to pay the settlement to the poor person that was sued to begin with...............What do ya think????????????

Mongo

I love America, but this is the stuff that's making our world suck.

I can't tell you how many times I've heard somebody say "I'll sue you". Everybody goes right to the court. If a TRUE injustice has been done, and real damage has occurred because of negligence or foul play...sure the courts provide a reasonable recourse for action.

But HOLY ****....slipping and falling on soda you threw....or the burglar that breaks his back when he slips and falls on the dish soap as he's climbing through the window....and then sues.....that's sucks.

You just have to hope that there is justice somewhere in the lives of those people....maybe they'll get theirs later down the road.

In The Wind

...I can't help but feel that we must take an honest look at how to aptly describe the meaning of "common sense". Proffessional liars AKA "Lawyers" are genetically designed with an inability to recognize the concept of common sense. There seems to be a belief that if it can't be described and dilineated then it doesn't have to be recognized. A cloud is hard to describe too, but they are there. This kind of thing is embarrassing to me. These people make me ashamed. They are the reason our legal system, which is comparatively a beautiful thing in a world-wide sense, will some day come under fire and cost us even more freedom, much such as the scrutiny abuses of the freedom of speech is subjecting our press to lately. We have a lot of work to do in the "heads-up" department. Freedom is at stake as this lunatic fringe noses it's way into the core of our system. Spooky, to say the least. ITW