J&J Sued by Consumers Over Children’s Cold Medicines
Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest health-products company, was sued by U.S. consumers accusing it of fraud and racketeering, and demanding cash refunds for recalled children’s cold and allergy medicines. In five complaints seeking class-action, or group, status filed yesterday in federal court in Chicago, the consumers spurned an offer by J&J’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare [...]
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J&J Sued by Consumers Over Children’s Cold Medicines
Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest health-products company, was sued by U.S. consumers accusing it of fraud and racketeering, and demanding cash refunds for recalled children’s cold and allergy medicines. In five complaints seeking class-action, or group, status filed yesterday in federal court in Chicago, the consumers spurned an offer by J&J’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare [...]
Dumb Laws Of Alabama
AnnistonYou may not wear blue jeans down Noble Street. AuburnNo person may spit on the floor of a church.It is unlawful for any person to spit upon the sidewalks, or upon the floors of places of worship, buses, public halls, theaters or other public places. Alabama HuntsvilleIf an animal control officer is in uniform, it [...]
2-year-old Kaylee Called for Jury Duty
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) – Kaylee Reynolds had a problem when she recently received a summons to serve on a Taunton District Court jury. She wasn’t old enough to read it. The two-year-old has quite a few years to go before she reaches the minimum age of 18 to serve on a state jury. Lucky [...]
Hostage-taking Ends Peacefully; Hostilo Unharmed
STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) – A couple surrendered Tuesday after holding a lawyer hostage in his office for more than 24 hours and telling authorities they were armed with an explosive device The suspects, Robert Eugene Brower, 43, a former client of the lawyer, and Connie Brower, have been charged with kidnapping, police said, adding that [...]
Uwe Max Jensen Fined for Pretending to Urinate
Uwe Max Jensen, a painter known for decorating house walls, claimed it was an artistic stunt that was not meant to be indecent. He told the court in Herning, 270 kilometres west of Copenhagen, that he pretended to urinate by concealing a plastic bag containing water in his trousers and squeezing water on a wall.The [...]
Flying Shrimp Kills Colaitis Lawsuit Pending
A shrimp a hibachi chef tossed at a man eating at a Japanese steakhouse ultimately led to the diner’s death, his family claims in a $10 million US wrongful death lawsuit against the restaurant chain Benihana Jerry Colaitis, 43, wrenched his neck when he ducked to avoid the shrimp in the chain’s Munsey Park restaurant, [...]
Frito-Lay Target of Olestra Lawsuit
CSPI Wants Court to Order Labels on Frito Lay “Light” Chips to Warn of Diarrhea, Stomach Cramps. Frito-Lay has been notified that it will be sued by a Massachusetts consumer for deceptively marketing its line of “Light” potato chips. Those chips are made with olestra—the controversial fat substitute that causes diarrhea, stomach cramps, and other [...]
The Baucums Sue to Keep Pet Chickens
A Shreveport couple has sued the city over its order to get rid of the chickens they keep as pets at their home. The City Council in November told Mary and Ralph Baucum they couldn’t keep their three hens in pens behind their house. Having lost at city hall, the Baucums has appealed to a [...]
Lawsuit Against FBI : Mistaken Fingerprint Match
A Justice Department report that faulted the FBI for sloppy work may strengthen a lawsuit filed against the agency by a Portland man who was arrested after his fingerprints were mistakenly identified during the investigation into the 2004 Madrid train bombings. Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine faulted the FBI for mistakenly matching a fingerprint [...]
Laughable Laws and Large Ladies
*An ordinance in Rosette, Utah, prohibits a man from looking at a full-figured woman “in that way” while she’s walking down a public street? (Caught a second time, the violator has to “wear horse blinders” for a twenty-four-hour period when out in public.) *In Hickory Plains, Arkansas, says that no large woman wearing lingerie can [...]
Lawsuit against Staples Over Insurance Charges
An appeals court reinstated a lawsuit that claims office supply chain Staples Inc. cheated customers by charging them for insurance when shipping some products. The 2nd District Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, ruled Wednesday that Staples was acting as an unlicensed insurance agent when it doubled the shipping insurance costs on some packages [...]
Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 Settlement
If you purchased or acquired in the United States for your own use or the use of your organization/company a new Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 notebook computer, a proposed nationwide class action settlement (“Settlement”) could affect your legal rights. You may be entitled to file a claim for monetary recovery. Toshiba Notebook TroublesThe Settlement resolves [...]
Floppy Disk Failure | Stephen Grider Lawsuit
When Stephen Grider tried to save information to the floppy disk on the then-new Compaq Presario laptop he bought in September 2000, it often came back garbled and unreadable — lost in a digital netherland. It wasn’t user error, however. Turns out the $1,700 computer had a faulty floppy disk controller. Grider had paid an [...]
Expelled Lesbians Sue California Lutheran School
Two California teenage girls whose former school branded them as lesbians and expelled them have sued the school for violating their rights, their lawyer said on Friday. School Yard LesbiansThe lawsuit against the California Lutheran High School in Riverside, California, 150km east of Los Angeles, explains that the private school expelled the girls, both 16, [...]
Xbox 360 Lawsuit Defective Glitch
It had to happen. Some guy has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft because he says that the company sold him a “defectively designed” console that overheats. At the time, a Microsoft spokeswoman told Reuters: “We have received a few isolated reports of consoles not working as expected.” She declined to say how many reports Microsoft [...]
Maria Sharapova Sued by Florida Production
A Florida production company has sued 2004 Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova in federal court, seeking approval to sell a documentary about Russian women tennis players. According to the suit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Sharapova objected to the use of her name and image in the documentary, “Anna`s Army: Behind the [...]
Heidi Klum Sued Over Project Runway
A man who claims he created Project Runway has filed suit in Los Angeles against Heidi Klum, Elizabeth Hurley and Greenlight Productions. Joel Lamontagne’s lawsuit claims his reality show, America’s Fashion Designer Search was registered with the Writer’s Guild of America in January 2003 — a year before Project Runway debuted on cable TV’s Bravo [...]
Ontario Canada Mom Faces $2M Libel Suit
A stay-at-home mother of three who created a website to alert the government about allegedly dangerous environmental problems in her southwestern Ontario neighbourhood is facing a $2 million libel suit by one of the developers she reported on. Louisette Lanteigne of Waterloo, Ont., said she grew sick of what she saw during construction in her [...]
Hilary Duff Sued By Canadian Clothing Firm
Hilary’s mom and manager, Susan Duff ahs been recently sued for breach of contract by the Canadian clothing firm, NTD Apparel. The firm claims that Susan Duff violated an exclusive merchandising deal for her daughter’s fashion line and indented a lawsuit worth millions of dollars. Duffs’ entertainment company, Rafter H, apparently violated his agreement with [...]
Home Depot Sued Man Glued Toliet Bowl
US hardware chain Home Depot is in a sticky situation, defending a lawsuit from a man who claims its Louisville store ignored his cries for help after he was glued to a toilet seat. Bob Dougherty, 57, said he was stuck to a toilet seat on which somebody smeared glue on October 30, 2003, and [...]
Netflix Settles Class Action Lawsuit
Netflix has settled class action lawsuit brought against the company last year for allegedly duping potential customers by advertising “unlimited” DVD rentals and “one day delivery.” Current and former Netflix customers will receive a one-month perk, but the real winners of the settlement are the lawyers. While not admitting any wrongdoing, Netflix will provide customers [...]
Strip-Search Case a Class-Action
A federal judge has approved class-action status for a suit by as many as 2,000 women who claim they were illegally strip-searched after being arrested in San Mateo County in 2002 and 2003. The San Mateo suit was filed in April by Shannon Gallagher, who was arrested in Pacifica in July 2003 on a San [...]
Lenny Kravitz Sued Over Toilet, Again
Rocker Lenny Kravitz is being sued for $10,000 over an overflowing toilet. It’s the second lawsuit filed against Kravitz for the August 2004 bathroom mess. The initial suit charged Kravitz’ leaking toilet allegedly caused “catastrophic water damage” to a neighbor’s apartment and now an insurance company wants the rock star to reimburse it for a [...]
Zeta Graff Sues Paris Hilton over Boyfriend
Model Zeta Graff, who dated Latsis for about two years before the Greek millionaire started seeing Paris Hilton, claims the blond star spread a false story about their June 30 run-in at the London nightclub Kabaret. The article appeared in the New York Post and sustained that Graff attacked Hilton on the dance floor, because [...]
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