The New Orleans bureau has alerted me to a new lawsuit against the rock band Tool, filed in federal court in Louisiana. Tool, whose music is described as "heavy metal," "alternative metal," "art rock," "art metal," "progressive rock," "progressive metal,"…
No surprises here — Roy Pearson's motion for reconsideration of the verdict against him in the lost-pants case was swiftly denied by Judge Judith Bartnoff. She ruled on Monday that the 35 pages of his motion did not include any…
Apparently unable to live without being mocked daily, and desperate to not be reappointed as a D.C. administrative law judge, Roy Pearson has now asked Judge Judith Bartnoff to reconsider her dismissal of his $54-million-pants lawsuit. In his motion for…
Vladimir Putin also shows up in this one.
New developments this week in the lawsuit by D.C. administrative law judge Roy Pearson against his local dry cleaners, alleging a diabolical pants-related scheme. As you may recall, Pearson sued under the D.C. consumer-protection statute after the cleaners allegedly lost…
Earlier this week, a judge in Gwinnett County, Georgia, chose to side with the forces of darkness by dismissing a lawsuit intended to protect schoolchildren from the witchcraft-inducing Harry Potter books. This ends, for now, a two-year quest by suburban…
In February, shocked and embarrassed about receiving a bad grade in advanced biology, a student at Sissonville High in West Virginia sued her teacher and the county board of education, demanding that the grade be changed. The grade was a…
Uri Geller’s also trying to bend the law with this one.
John Brandrick, a 62-year-old British man who was diagnosed with cancer two years ago, is threatening to sue his doctors because he hasn’t died. Specifically, Brandrick went on a spending spree after being told that he had just one year…
A judge in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has ruled that a local brewing company must pay damages to one of its former beer tasters, after the taster alleged that his job — drinking alcohol — caused him to develop alcoholism. In…