Quentin Tarantino Settles Angry-Birds Case
He complained of the birds’ “pterodactyl-like screams.”
Titanic Legal Battles
Deposition Battle Over Definition of “Photocopy”
Also from Cleveland (via the WSJ Law Blog) comes another story of lawyers doing battle, this time over the meaning of "photocopy." The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported on a deposition taken in a dispute apparently before the Ohio Supreme Court over…
Florida Man Sues Alleged Foot-Stealer
The defendant in this case said she did not intend to cause the plaintiff any pain by stealing his foot, and that seems plausible since it wasn't attached at the time. The plaintiff was quite seriously injured in a 2008 crash on…
A Comic-Book History of Comic-Book Lawsuits
This is one panel from a new comic book that, according to The Hollywood Reporter's legal blog, tells the "incredible, insane true story" of legal disputes in the American comic-book industry, including, for example, whether Captain Marvel infringed on Superman. (The…
Sue Your Illusion
Not only do the former members of Guns N' Roses not get along, Axl Rose even hates the cartoon version of Slash that appears in Guitar Hero III. Axl sued Activision this week, claiming that it had fraudulently induced him…
Quit Bothering Superman, Judge Tells LAPD
Superman has won yet another battle against evildoers, but this time he went to federal court instead of the Hall of Justice to get help. This matter comes before the court on a Motion for Preliminary Injunction filed by the plaintiffs…
Town’s Lawn-Mowing Requirement Held Not Equivalent to Slavery
The excellent Legal Blog Watch reports that the Georgia Supreme Court has rejected an argument that an ordinance requiring citizens to mow their lawns constituted an imposition of "involuntary servitude" of the kind prohibited by the 13th Amendment to the United…
Tiny Dress, Big Award
Geisy Arruda, a 21-year-old Brazilian woman who was kicked out of her university for wearing a dress that officials considered "too short," has been awarded $23,600 in compensation by a local court. Officials at Bandeirante University, a private school in Sao…
“The White One Wants My Flesh”
A minor dispute, but one that generated two excellent quotes. On September 16, a dog owner in Lafayette, Colorado (near Boulder) was ticketed after an altercation involving himself, his two dogs and a local cyclist. Peter West was walking his…
International House of Prayercakes
If I told you that IHOP was looking forward to the "great end-time harvest of souls," would you find someplace else to have breakfast? If so, then there might be something to the new lawsuit by IHOP against IHOP —…