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So, are you like me? Do you get nauseous when you hear about frivolous lawsuits? Seriously, I hate all the mo-fo's out there suing people for ridiculous reasons. These lawsuits are the reason insurance is so expensive, they are the reason the prices for goods are higher than they should be, the reason airline tickets cost so much, hospital bills are so high, and why teachers are afraid to get within an three feet of their students. People need to cover themselves from frivilous lawsuits, and the cost of that coverage is passed on to you and me. Anyway, here...

A pediatrician in northern British Columbia wants liquor and beer makers to help pay for the damage caused when pregnant women drink. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, or FASD, refers to a range of disabilities that are seen in people whose mothers drank alcohol while they were pregnant. Dr. Marie Hay of Prince George has diagnosed thousands of children harmed by fetal alcohol consumption. Hay's patient files document thousands of children hurt by exposure to alcohol. She said many now face: * Anxiety. * Depression. * Autism. * Schizophrenia. * Mental retardation. * Learning disabilities. * Conduct disorders. * Trouble with...

WEEKNIGHTS at 9 ET on The ANDREA SHEA KING ShowPROGRAM SCHEDULE Tonight - Monday, Mar. 16th at 9 pm ET. TONIGHT... we continue our informational discussion about one of the dozens of ongoing legal efforts to get Obama to prove he is a natural born citizen, that he didn't commit perjury, and he is who he says he is, and prove he is not a usurper president like many strongly suspect. Joining me on our program for the second time, attorney Mario Apuzzo and lead plaintiff Charles Kerchner in the Kerchner et al v Obama et al case at 9...

In a time of massive Ponzi schemes and widespread financial turmoil, it is important for people to feel they can speak up when they believe that something improper is being done.  The protection of free speech was given a big boost this past week with a $545,000 settlement, which wrapped-up over three-and-a-half years of court cases. During that time, Elizabeth Enney lost both parents, survived a fifth heart surgery and paid more than $300,000 to defend herself against two libel lawsuits ultimately found to have been without any basis in law or fact.  The lawsuits were described by Enney’s lawyer,...

A federal appeals court says the Vatican can be sued for abuse committed by its priests. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests can sue the Vatican even though it is considered a sovereign nation. The appeals court said there are exceptions to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and abuse can be one of them. The Oregon case has been working its way through the federal appeals court since a judge in Portland ruled in 2006 that the Holy See can be held responsible for the actions of individual...

TONIGHT on my radio program--- Tennessee legislator Stacey Campfield (one of four TN lawmakers, along with Missouri State Rep. Tim Jones, New Hampshire State Rep. Tim Comerford, and Oklahoma State Rep. Mike Ritze, who have signed on as plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging Obama's qualifications to be president under the U.S. Constitution) will tell why he believes Obama should produce proof of his citizenship. Also joining us, Dr. Orly Taitz, the California attorney representing these lawmakers and other plaintiffs (Alan Keyes included) in several lawsuits bring brought to force Obama to produce proof that he is a natural born citizen....

The most outrageous lawsuits filed in the past year have been revealed at the annual Stella Awards held in the US this week. The awards take a light-hearted look at the civil litigation industry that now costs more than $247 billion (£172bn) a year – the equivalent of $825 (£574) per person in the US. They are named after Stella Liebeck of Albuquerque, New Mexico, who successfully sued McDonald's for $2.86 million (£2m) in 1992 after burning herself on coffee that was "too hot". Among the cases featured this year was the Washington lawyer who is suing the dry cleaners...

"Three more TN State representatives Glen Cassada, Stacey Campfield and Frank Niceley have signed the consent forms to be my plaintiffs in a legal action to unseal all vital records of Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama via Writ of Mandamus and ascertain if he is legitimate for presidency. More lawmakers are reviewing the documents and expressed tentative consent. I wanted to thank all of you- patriots and volunteers for your help and support and donations. I wanted to mention generous donations from HHB, Suzanne Pedro, Jean Morris, Arlington Kennedy, Forest Anderson, Kaatcya Kaatczeya, Louis Jones, Robert Davies and John...

Background: Volvo Cars (owned by Ford Motor Company) claims their all new Volvo XC 60 to be the world's safest car. The consequence: The Toyota people have worked themselves into a rage and now take legal actions. (The following is a translation of a Swedish article. My English isn't perfect, but I hope what follows at least is comprehensible:) "Toyota disapproves of Volvo's claims of the new XC60 to be the world's safest car. Toyota now sues Volvo in the Swedish Market Court (Marknadsdomstolen). In their application to the court, Toyota argues that there indeed are cars around the Globe...

U.S. Civil Cases for "Obama" (08/01/2008 - 02/09/2009) Line No.    |    Name    |    Court    |    Case No.    |    Filed    |    NOS    |    Closed     |    Other (Title) 1  |  OBAMA CAMPAIGN FOR CHANGE  |  flsdce  |  1:2008cv23076  |  11/18/2008  |  442  |  Open  |   Charman v. State of Florida et al 2  |  OBAMA FOR AMERICA  |  miedce  |  2:2008cv13982  |  09/16/2008  |  441  |  10/20/2008  |   Maletski et al v. Macomb County Republican Party et al 3  |  OBAMA FOR AMERICA,INC.  |  flsdce  |  1:2008cv23076  |  11/18/2008  |  442  |  Open  |   Charman v. State of Florida et al 4  |  OBAMA, B  |  ilcdce  |  3:2008cv03169  |  08/04/2008  |  440  |  08/15/2008  |   Armstead v. HSBC Card Services et al 5  |  OBAMA, B.  |  ilndce  |  1:2008cv04487  |  08/08/2008  |  550  |  09/23/2008  |   Luevano v. Obama et al 6  |  OBAMA, B. H.  |  hidce  |  1:2009cv00006  |  01/06/2009  |  441  |  01/27/2009  |   Roy v. Bush et al 7  |  OBAMA, B. H.  |  hidce  |  1:2009cv00041  |  01/29/2009  |  441  |  Open  |   Roy v. Obama 8  |  OBAMA, B. H.  |  hidce  |  1:2008cv00362  |  08/11/2008  |  440  |  08/27/2008  |   Roy vs. USDC 9  |  OBAMA, B. H.  |  hidce  |  1:2008cv00424  |  09/22/2008  |  441  |  10/22/2008  |   Roy v. USA Govt et al 10  |  OBAMA, B. H.  |  hidce  |  1:2008cv00580  |  12/22/2008  |  441  |  Open  |   Roy v. Obama et al...

"The former commander of the USS Cole, the American war ship that was struck by a suicide boat in Yemeni waters more than eight years ago, on Thursday slammed President Barack Obama's orders to close the Guantanamo detention center and reassess the prisoners being held there." [snip] "On Thursday, Lippold called Pohl's decision "a victory for the 17 families of the sailors who lost their lives on the USS Cole over eight years ago." [snip] But Lippold also denounced suggestions that the Pentagon official who oversees the Guantanamo legal cases, Susan J. Crawford, could withdraw the charges, without prejudice, which...

First layoffs, then lawsuits. More workers are being let go as corporate layoffs that began in earnest last year have accelerated in recent weeks. And more often, people are looking around and complaining that they have been unfairly or improperly dismissed. Former employees of Lehman Brothers, for example, say they were not given the required 60 days’ pay before their jobs vanished, while Dell is being sued over allegations of age and sex discrimination against workers, in what lawyers say are growing choruses. Before filing many types of discrimination lawsuits, disgruntled employees must file a claim with the government. The...

With President Obama’s signing today of a new federal law, the size of your paycheck may become just a little more interesting to your co-workers. Enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is likely to spark many employees’ interest in possible pay discrimination. The measure will remove obstacles to lawsuits on the issue by reversing a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that refuted pay-discrimination charges by Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber plant in Alabama. The high court had rejected Ms. Ledbetter’s claim because it wasn’t filed within the 180-day statute of limitations. The new legislation...

President Obama signed his first bill into law on Thursday, approving "equal-pay" legislation that he said would “send a clear message that making our economy work means making sure it works for everybody.” In reality, this bill limits the freedom of both employee and employer, and reduces people to representatives of their gender, not the sum of their abilities and aptitudes. Mr. Obama was surrounded by a group of beaming lawmakers... as he affixed his signature to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a law named for an Alabama woman who at the end of a 19-year career as a...

Orly Taitz is outraged and you should be too. Tonight -- we talk to Dr. Orly Taitz, the California attorney who has brought suit against Barack Obama, one of several lawsuits filed in recent months alleging Obama does not meet the "natural born citizen" clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, which reads, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President." Orly just posted this at her site: "Maybe we should recall Senator Sessions from...

Civil Justice: Litigation was up 9% last year, driven in part by a 6% rise in employment cases. But that'll seem modest in comparison if the Lilly Ledbetter legislation is passed by Congress and signed by President Obama.Ledbetter worked for Goodyear Tire & Rubber for 19 years, but only after retiring in 1998 with benefits did she sue her employer over what she alleged were discriminatory wages set by a long-dead supervisor. Ledbetter claimed she wasn't paid on the same scale as men, and was victorious in the lower courts. The Supreme Court, however, ruled that she filed after the...

Thank You Brian for reminding our Representatives that our first priority is to get our economy on track and that isn’t done by eliminating statutes of limitations and eliminating caps on punitive damages besides the act being “UNFAIR”.

Washington lobbyist Vicki L. Iseman has filed a $27 million defamation lawsuit against The New York Times for a February article about Iseman and her relationship with Sen. John McCain. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Richmond on Tuesday, alleges the article falsely communicated that Iseman and McCain had an illicit “romantic” relationship in 1999 when he was chair of the Senate Commerce Committee and she was a lobbyist representing clients before Congress. The suit also names the executive editor of the Times, its Washington bureau chief and four reporters who wrote the story as defendants. William Keller,...

One of the hallmarks of a free society is that citizens have direct and personal access to the judicial system. From time to time, that access is abused, but not nearly so much as tort-reform lobbies would have us believe. But then there are abusive suits filed by public officials, seemingly determined to set a bad example.

Legal Reform: A physicians' group has found that the practice of defensive medicine wastes more than a billion dollars a year in Massachusetts alone. Trial lawyers should be ashamed of what they've done to health care.Nine of 10 doctors practice defensive medicine — ordering unneeded laboratory and diagnostic tests, referring patients to consultations they don't need, performing procedures that aren't called for, sending patients to hospitals without cause — to avoid being sued, not to benefit their clientele. Doctors are a favorite prey of trial lawyers, whose litigation against the profession has forced malpractice insurance to unaffordable heights in some...

This is part of an ongoing poll and as you can see we are really divided. Does anyone care? I doubt it. We the people have no say in our government anymore. The government doesn't work for the people. They run over us like we don't even exist. Do any of you who voted for Barack H Obama really know who he is or even care. Did we witness the death of the constitution in the United States in 2008? Aside from seeing a fake Certificate that was on Factcheck.org what else do you know about Barack H Obama. He...

Tobacco companies suffered a defeat in the Supreme Court on Monday when the justices ruled that the companies can be sued by smokers who contend they were deceived by advertisements promoting “light” cigarettes. In its 5-to-4 ruling, the court did not state that such advertising is, in fact, misleading. Rather, it concluded that lawsuits accusing the cigarette-makers of fraudulent conduct can proceed. The ruling was a victory for a group of plaintiffs from Maine whose suit accused the tobacco companies of violating the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act by fraudulently advertising that their “light” cigarettes delivered far less tar and...

Howard’s small business was the target of an enormous lawsuit that could have forced him to close his doors. His offense? A wild Canada goose nesting outside his store startled a passerby, causing her to fall. Two years later, Howard was served with papers announcing that the woman was suing Contemporary Watercrafters for $750,000, alleging that the goose was the store’s responsibility. Ironically, Howard had wanted to remove the goose from his property long before the accident, but, because it was protected under the Migratory Species Act, the bird could not be disturbed.

TERRE HAUTE — You want to lose a day or 10? Get on the Internet and start reading the minutely detailed, remarkably long-winded analyses of what the term “natural born citizen” means. Because the term is in the U.S. Constitution as a requirement for the office of President or Vice President of the United States — and because the Constitution does not define natural born — people have been arguing about the question for some time. Because Barack Obama is the person headed to the White House, the arguments have kicked into high gear. According to at least one Obama...

Controversy continues to surround President-elect Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, and a case involving his birth certificate waits for its day before the U.S. Supreme Court. A constitutional lawyer said were it to be discovered that Mr. Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, it would have grave consequences for the nation. According to the Constitution, a president must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. Mr. Obama's critics have failed to force him legally to produce his original birth certificate, and Mr. Obama has resisted any attempt to make him do so. Currently, only Hawaii Department...

Posted: Nov.21.2008 @ 8:25 pm | Lasted edited: Nov.21.2008 @ 8:25 pm Donofrio Alleges Judicial Misconduct, Obstruction of Justice, NJ Appellate Division Today, Leo Donofrio, also the Plaintiff in Donofrio v. Wells, is separately filing an official allegation of Judicial Misconduct against Appellate Division Judge Jack M. Sabatano.Leo will be updating his blog with the official complaint, and I’ll update here as well… Today, Leo C. Donofrio filed, with the NJ Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct, an official allegation of Judicial Misconduct against Appellate Division Judge Jack M. Sabatino with regard to the initial stage of this litigation...

The ACLU has successfully gotten the Wyoming Department of Corrections to cater to the demands of its Muslim prisoners. Originally prisoners had to eat their meals within twenty minutes of delivery of that meal.

The final judgment [PDF] from Utah is here at last. It recites what the August 10, 2007 and July 16, 2008 orders said, but it also resolves the recent dispute over SCO's desire to voluntarily waive some claims and then bring them back to the table after an appeal, should it prove successful. Here's SCO's motion to voluntarily dismiss, and Novell's response, so you can verify that this judgment indeed represents another loss for SCO. You'll see that it was Novell that suggested the wording regarding SCO's voluntarily dismissed claims that we see in the judgment, that they be dismissed...

This is my first time posting so please let me know if I should have done something differently. I spoke with Dr Orly Taitz (Esq) about the lawsuit that she has filed in California. She would like as many people as possible to get involved. She told me that she grew up in Russia and knows first hand what life is like in a Totalitarian State. Here is the information that she sent: the shows I've been at are as follows Jan Mickelson 515-245-8862 Lan Lamphere 405-307-0752 Peter Boyles 303-847-6267 Wiley Drake 714-865-8132 will be probably later today on Joe...

The Republican party lost again. We can debate all day long why that occurred. So where do go we from here? The answer is in the courts! Conservatives, and even Repub loyals have lost big time and we are now facing another FDR, Johnson, Carter expansion of liberal/socialist ideals. If you want to hang tough for Obama's "possible" failings for a Congressional change in 2010, more power to you. I am suggesting a new tactic: The liberals have used the courts for decades against conservatism and won many many times. I suggest we do the same. It's time Constitutional advocates...

San Francisco, CA (AP) -- California's highest court has agreed to hear legal challenges to the state's new same-sex marriage ban, but is refusing to allow gay couples to resume marrying until it rules on the measure's validity.

d) Equal Rights Advocates and California Women's Law Center - These (fellow) wimmins libbers argue that, if the process that brought us Prop 8 is legitimized, women stand a distinct chance of being harmed by whatever rights some unholy alliance of self-loathing chicks and unattractive men want take away from women as a group. They point out that the 1879 California State Constitution prohibited Chinese people from voting. e) Asian Pacific American Legal Center, et al. - This petition was filed by a group of organizations dedicated to the protection of the rights of minorities - including the NAACP. As...

The wave of lawsuits by Muslims against the companies who where kind enough to hire them continues as UPS has just settled its suit with eight Muslim women over their dress code. Obviously this is a victory for the plantiffs and this will only encourage more lawsuits by Muslims.

Just two days ago I reported that the Muslims who filed a lawsuit against Swift Plant were awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now today the constantly suing Muslims have hit the jackpot in the UK with a 10 million pound payout. All that I can say is hire at your own risk.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A shareholder claimed in a lawsuit that American International Group (AIG.N) violated her rights by accepting the U.S. government's $85 billion bailout in September in exchange for a majority stake in the insurer.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Efforts to restore fairness and balance to the nation's courts could take a step backward if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president today, tort reform advocates said Tuesday. An Obama win coupled with Democrats' likely gains in Congress would spell disaster for legal reform efforts including pushes for damage award caps, experts told Legal Newsline. James Copland, director of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, said tort reform activists have already been placed in a defensive posture.

Besides all the threats and imposing that the Islamic community brings to non-Muslims there is also another problem that they bring, lawsuits. Lawsuits claiming discrimination against them. Most recently we had the lawsuit happy Muslim from Brooklyn and the UK Muslim who sued the Tesco Supermarket chain because as a stock boy he had to handle unopened bottles of alcohol. Today we have female Muslim twins that are stockbrokers from the UK who have filed over 200 allegations of religious and race bias.

State Sen. Carole Migden and California's political watchdog agency have settled their lawsuits against each other. The litigation was initiated in Sacramento federal court with a lot of huffing and puffing but bowed out with a whimper. Under terms filed Wednesday, Migden, a volatile San Francisco Democrat, will pay the Fair Political Practices Commission $40,000 to resolve allegations she violated a host of campaign finance regulations. Contrast that to the agency's countersuit, filed three weeks after Migden sued the FPPC for preventing her in this year's campaign from spending money she raised before being elected to the Senate. The FPPC...

Once again, what's good for the plaintiffs' lawyers is bad for everyone else, including those who need the latest medical breakthroughs to help save or improve their lives.

All the plaintiffs’ bar really needs is a single precedent-setting victory with a public nuisance case. This means that even confronted with long-shot odds, firms like Motley Rice are willing to gamble on the outcome because the ultimate payoff would be astronomical. In Rhode Island, they rolled the dice and they lost. However, those tempted to think that this nearly decade-long pursuit of former lead paint manufacturers ends in the Ocean State, think again. There are numerous “elsewheres” for Motley Rice and other plaintiffs’ firms to look for mega payouts.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's views on a bevy of national issues remain unknown, not the least of which is her take on the nation's legal landscape. Leading tort reform advocates told Legal Newsline that they know little to nothing about the first-term Alaska governor's view on legal reform. "I am not aware that Governor Palin has any record," said Philip Howard, founder and chair of Common Good, a bipartisan coalition that advocates for legal reform. Palin's public comments on national legal issues have been limited to her comments blasting the U.S. Supreme Court for reducing the...

An atheism-promoting organization has withdrawn its lawsuit demanding that Christian baptisms of children be banned in Italy, after a U.S.-based legal team took on the defense of a bishop and the Roman Catholic Church there."This was a preposterous lawsuit, and we are pleased that it has been dropped," said Joseph Infranco, senior counsel for the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund.However, he said, "Americans should be aware that such lawsuits may seem far-fetched, but they really are happening … foreign legal decisions are increasingly cited in American courts."The ADF battled back when the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics filed a...

A state workers' union filed a lawsuit today in an effort to reverse more than 10,000 layoffs ordered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to save money until he and state lawmakers are able to negotiate a budget. The lawsuit, filed in Sacramento County Superior Court by Local 1000 of the Service Employees International Union, was one of at least three actions employees took in the wake of the governor's Thursday order. SEIU and CASE, a union representing state attorneys, administrative law judges and hearing officers, each filed a compaint, called an unfair practice charge, with the state's Public Employment Relations Board....

A New York woman has filed a $10 million lawsuit stemming from her arrest at Washington's Reagan International Airport last year, an arrest she says was unwarranted and abusive. Police say 31-year-old Robin Kassner was obstructing justice. Security cameras captured the incident and the video has now been made public. Surveillance video from inside Reagan National Airport shows Robin Kassner standing with a TSA agent who sorts through her bag. Moments later, a Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority police officer steps in and pulls Kassner to the ground. Robin Kassner says "I was thrown across the room, into a metal chair...

SAN FRANCISCO (BP)--If the major homosexual activist groups have their way, there won't be and outbreak of "gay marriage" lawsuits nationwide now that California has legalized such unions--at least not yet. Nine of the nation's largest homosexual activist organizations have issued a joint six-page statement urging couples not to sue in their home states or in federal court. The reason? Losses in such lawsuits could set the "gay marriage" movement back for years.

Restaurants in New York City with 15 or more outlets nationwide now must conspicuously post the nutritional content of each item on their menus. Similar legislation is coming to San Francisco and Seattle, and is under consideration in about a dozen other cities and state legislatures. At first blush, this seems like a good idea. Why not force restaurants to let their consumers know the nutritional value of what they're about to eat? If we're to believe what the public health world says about our bulging waistlines, perhaps a little more information would be a good thing. The American Prospect's...

A tray of asymmetrical chocolate lumps balances on the counter behind the espresso machine, where owner Jean-Marc Gorce is slinging a cappuccino. Scotch-taped to the walls, clippings about the mom-and-pop truffle shop display accolades from Gourmet, the New York Times and 7 x 7. At the window, a few stools share a high counter; outside, two tables perch on the sidewalk. Cluttered but quaint, off-kilter but authentic, XOX Truffles is just the sort of place that one might associate with North Beach's motley character. Yet one of its design anomalies - a step from the curb into the shop -...

Thompson says You don't know Jack Jack Thompson, the infamous attorney that has been a factor in multiple anti-video game lawsuits, reportedly walked out of a hearing before the Florida Bar Association today. Thompson’s hearing went on without him and the Florida Bar Association recommended Thompson be disciplined with an “enhanced disbarment” stipulating that Thompson can’t apply to practice law again for a decade. ***** Thompson filed a massive and rambling 14 page document he titled “Thompson’s Formal Objection to June 4 Sanctions “Hearing””. Thompson points out in the opening lines of his objections that, “I depart from the traditional...

Do guns kill people or do people kill people? This is the question that will be kicked around Queen's Park for the next few weeks as the provincial government debates a Private Member's Bill, introduced by Oakville MPP Kevin Flynn, which would attempt to make firearm manufacturers and importers more responsible for the actions of their products. If passed, the Handgun Manufacturers' and Importers' Liability Act 2008 proposed by Flynn would allow the victims of handgun shootings, or their families, to bring legal action against the handgun's manufacturer or importer in cases where negligence could be proven on their part....

snip- For decades, malpractice lawyers and insurers have counseled doctors and hospitals to “deny and defend.” Many still warn clients that any admission of fault, or even expression of regret, is likely to invite litigation and imperil careers. But with providers choking on malpractice costs and consumers demanding action against medical errors, a handful of prominent academic medical centers, like Johns Hopkins and Stanford, are trying a disarming approach. By promptly disclosing medical errors and offering earnest apologies and fair compensation, they hope to restore integrity to dealings with patients, make it easier to learn from mistakes and dilute anger...