Having heard the story about Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers and his lawsuit against God this morning, I have to applaud him and his reasoning for this lawsuit. There ARE way too many frivolous lawsuits in this country. Take for example, the woman who sued a fast food chain because she was stupid and placed a cup of hot coffee between her legs and burned herself. Shame on the judge who heard this case! Also, people suing cigarette companies. Hello! The dangers of smoking have been common knowledge for well over 25 years, so anyone who picks up the dirty habit nowadays, has absolutley no excuse.
Can anyone else think of other frivolous lawsuits?
2007-09-18 00:58:59 · 7 answers · asked by Brian S 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
wow, jeffh, thanks for that link, i didn't know that. i still think she was stupid for putting the coffee cup between her legs.
2007-09-18 01:17:17 · update #1
kp, then yes, i did misunderstand what they were saying on the news this morning. i thought they said he was doing it to prove that they let frivolous lawsuits through all the time
2007-09-18 04:30:05 · update #2
Yup. I got a better one. Check this out,
A woman sues the company that trained a blind man's seeing eye dog for walking into her. When she was asked about it and why she didn't move out of the way she said "I wanted to see if the dog would walk around me"
Can you believe that?
2007-09-18 01:08:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Frivolous lawsuits can be a problem, but you've picked a poor example with the McDonalds Coffee Burn Incident. Please take some time to read the linked page... after you read the facts, then make up your mind. I don't think that it was a frivolous lawsuit at all. The burns were far worse than what one would reasonably expect - she had to have skin grafts.
The smoking thing is a better example. The risks of smoking have been adequately expressed for many years. At this point, anybody who smokes should be solely responsible for the consequences they bring upon themselves.
2007-09-18 01:12:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The McDonald's case is a good example of people jumping to conclusions without knowing all the facts. When people realize the true facts, and the fact that the award was reduced substantially by the judge, they realize that our system of civil justice often works very well. There are literally hundreds of thousands of cases that are handled by thousands of courts each year. To cite a few as evidence of justice run amok is to ignore the facts. People with a particular political agenda-insurance companies, big business and drs.-want you to believe that there are people who play the courts like others play the lottery. That simply is not the case. While there are frivolous lawsuits, it is very expensive to bring a genuine case and there are sanctions in place for those who prosecute frivolous cases.
2007-09-18 01:57:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You didn't here about the Latest McDonald's suit to much salt on the Burger? The Lawsuit said that the plaintiff didn't realize with the first bite that there was a layer of salt on the food ,after the second bite she started getting violently ill.Ha! Now High blood pressure is killing them. Suing for 200 million.Sad Sad Sad
2007-09-18 01:37:19 · answer #4 · answered by Hillarys lovehandles 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For a youth league baseball coach, what could be worse than going 0-15? Ask Rodney Carroll.
Soon after Carroll guided the Brunswick (Ohio) Cobras to a winless season in 1999, a summons arrived, informing him that he was being sued for $2,000 by the father of his catcher.
The complaint? Poor coaching. Carroll's incompetence, the lawsuit claimed, cost the team a trip to a tournament in Florida.
"I didn't understand it," says Carroll, 43, a street-maintenance worker who had volunteered for two years. "I wanted to be a coach just to help kids."
2007-09-18 01:08:08 · answer #5 · answered by sashali 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The judge who sued for 54 million dollars because he did not get his pants back from the dry cleaners. Fortunately, he lost.
I am a retired claims adjuster. I got so fed up with claimants and attorneys making bogus claims that I quit and took early retirement.
Some years ago, a man trespassed onto US Steel property, passed a fence and a security guard. He climbed a transmission tower, tried to steal copper wire and got electrocuted. His family sued US Steel.
2007-09-18 01:09:47 · answer #6 · answered by regerugged 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
You applaud him? I think you’re misunderstanding what he’s trying to do. He’s doing it to “fight possible laws restricting the filing of frivolous lawsuits”. He thinks people should be able to file any lawsuit they want, no matter how frivolous it is.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297121,00.html
2007-09-18 03:53:07 · answer #7 · answered by kp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋