Lawyer Seeking $65 Million for Pants-Related Fraud
It’s the principle of the thing, probably.
Civil
Class Members Sought for Anti-Shark Litigation
This helpful update appeared in today’s "Legal Headlines" email from FindLaw: PERSONAL INJURY Boy, 12, Bitten By Shark Off Fla. Coast Well, that is a "personal injury," no doubt about it. I’m just not sure what the legal ramifications are,…
Second Japanese Toilet Manufacturer Admits Its Product Placed Buttocks at Risk
The blazing-bidet scandal continues to grow in Japan, with the country’s second-largest toilet maker now joining the market leader, Toto Ltd., in admitting that it has been aware for years of defects in its "washlet" products. INAX Corp. said today…
Japanese Company Warns That Defective Toilets May Catch Fire
Toto Ltd., Japan’s leading toilet manufacturer, announced today that it was offering free repairs for a defect that had been identified in its popular "Z Series" toilets. The company said that the defect, related to the toilets’ electrical systems, may…
Man Sued for Negligent Dancing
The AP reported this week that a Chicago woman is suing a man she danced with at an office party, alleging that she was injured by one of his dance moves, which seems to have gone something like this: Step…
UPDATE: Settlement Talks Break Down in Case of Previously Lustful Ostrich
I reported recently on a case in Germany in which an ostrich rancher had sued three teenagers for allegedly making one of his ostriches impotent by throwing firecrackers at it. Happily (for me), the parties have so far failed to…
German Teenagers Accused of Proximately Causing Ostrich Impotency
On Monday, a court in Bautzen, Germany, will hear the case of an ostrich farmer who alleges that three teenagers frightened his male ostrich so badly with fireworks that it was unable to breed for six months. This cost the…
Motion to Continue Because Saints Are in the Playoffs: GRANTED
Hail to Judge Ernest L. Jones of Orleans Parish, who swiftly granted a motion to continue a trial originally set for Monday. (According to this article the motion was granted on Wednesday, the same day it was filed.) This gives…
Motion to Continue Trial on the Grounds that the Saints Are in the Playoffs
A while ago I reported on a motion filed in an Arkansas case seeking a continuance on the ground that trial was set during deer season and so most of the jury pool would be out in the wilderness. In…
WARNING: “Welsh Dragon Sausages” May Not Contain Real Dragon
In November, the Trading Standards department for Powys County, Wales, forced a sausage manufacturer to change the label of its "Welsh Dragon"-brand spicy sausage, on the grounds that the label was misleading because the product did not contain real dragon….