5 Famous Frivolous Lawsuits That Didn't Actually Happen
Everyone has heard about those crazy lawsuits where somebody earns an outrageous sum of money by making a complete mockery of the legal system. These are the stories you get in email forwards or from your bitter uncle at Thanksgiving,oakley, raging about people who sue microwave manufacturers because their cat exploded. It makes it sound like the legal system is a loophole riddled mess designed to enrich morons and bury the rest of us in red tape. And, strangely,gucci, many of these urban legends are about poor, innocent corporations being victimized by evil, greedy poor people.
The problem is that, while there no doubt are real frivolous lawsuits out there, when you go to look up the details of these stories, you usually find that things played out very differently. At best, the situation was a little more complicated, and at worst, the person didn't even get the money at all. We've talked about these "frivolous lawsuit" myths before, so now let's look at infamous cases like .
5. "A Woman Sues a Hospital for Loss of Psychic Powers!"One of the few phrases that carry even less dignity than "frivolous lawsuit" is "psychic powers," so when you combine the two, you get the kind of story even presidents love to tell at parties.
Judith Haimes, self described psychic and superpowered crime fighter (yes, really), tragically lost her supposed paranormal abilities when she had a CAT scan in 1986. Her loss was deemed worth $988,000 by the jury. The large compensation and the weirdness factor brought by the whole "crime solving psychic" thing made the case an immediate entrant to the What the Hell Hall of Fame. We weren't kidding about the president thing, either: Ronald Reagan was known to use the story as a particularly glaring example of how our system has gone lawsuit crazy. That must make it true, since a president would never lie about anything.
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They sure as hell seem to forget a lot, though.
First,rolex replica watches, Haimes never received the ghost of a red cent for her claim the judge threw it out. OK, you might think, but isn't the fact that she was even able to get a trial over this bullshit enough to prove that the system is broken?
Well,asics, the part about Haimes claiming that she lost her police helping psychic powers is,supra for sale, awesomely, 100 percent correct. However, that's not what got the case before a judge it was because she suffered a very real, crippling reaction,ugg slippers, not from the CAT scan, but from the dye they injected her with at the hospital. See, just because Haimes was crazy and confused about her symptoms, it doesn't mean that she didn't suffer an actual physical reaction. If a machine malfunctions and cuts off your hand,nike free, it doesn't matter if you insist in your lawsuit that it's the hand you performed wizard spells with the judge is still going to evaluate the case because you're a human being who lost a hand."Sir, just answer the question what does it sound like when you clap?"
In this case, Haimes said she warned the hospital that she was allergic to the dye beforehand and they completely ignored her. So, they injected the dye, leaving her with chronic and disabling headaches. And when the hospital injects you against your will with an allergen that seriously ruins your shit,true religion wholesale, you're usually damn well set for a malpractice lawsuit . especially if you can bring in a legitimate medical witness who can successfully argue that the dye had caused the headaches.
Too bad Haimes failed to do that.
Although her case was indeed enough to initially award her the $988,air jordan,000 all the stories report, the judge unimpressed by the whole psychic schtick and the less than believable medical expert in her corner immediately ordered a retrial, instructing the jury to only consider Haimes' immediate symptoms. Since these still included "breathing difficulties, tightness of the throat,vans pas cher, pain, nausea,ugg, vomiting, loss of bladder control,p90x workout schedule, hives, and welts,burberry factory outlet," which sounded even worse than the mental powers thing, the jury decided she should be awarded $600,000 . See, because that's what happens when you can't bring evidence to prove what caused your injuries. Not that such a turn of events will stop politicians from using your example as a reason why other sick people shouldn't be allowed to file lawsuits.
4. "Families Sue Disneyland for Letting Kids See Characters Out of Costume!"This popular "wacky lawsuit" story involves a family going to Disneyland, only to have their precious little children see park employees dressed as characters . Apparently, the sight of cast members removing their giant suffocating mouse helmets and sneaking a puff of precious, precious oxygen during their break has been enough to traumatize the kids of not one, but , to the point that it's worth suing over. Is this what the legal system has come to?!If only the Mouseketeers were still legally considered law enforcement.
This is in fact based on two real lawsuits, but while both families certainly mentioned seeing headless Disney characters in their suits, that was never the central point of either case. Instead, the families preferred to focus on actual, fairly serious abuses they had suffered under the unforgiving white gloved hand of the Mouse.
The first family the Boozers sued because the staff accused them of stealing a $2.50 piggy bank from a souvenir store. Despite the fact that they had a receipt,montre femme, they were taken behind the scenes for questioning. Imagine the situation: The whole family, including kids aged 2 and 5, are dragged away from the bright amusement park environment to a barren backstage room, where they are interrogated and searched by large, angry men. which is when he found that not only had the Boozers paid for the piggy bank, but they'd been overcharged. Even then, the supervisor wouldn't yield: Instead, he searched their bags to try to find them guilty of something and scolded them over a bag of dried fruit until Mrs. Boozer started crying.
Then, just as they were released back into the world, shocked, scared, and humiliated, a bunch of headless Disney characters waltzed into the room. The kids needed therapy over the whole thing. Hell, we need therapy just from imagining the situation.
The second case saw the Matay family held up at gunpoint in the Disneyland parking lot and robbed of $1,650 in cash. Their lawsuit alleges that Disneyland officials failed to respond to a crime and, yes, held them up and questioned them for hours instead, even though Mrs. Matay was a goddamn ex Mouseketeer. In a pattern that is beginning to emerge, the headless characters once again turned up,discount true religion, but the Matays' lawsuit dismissed this as unimportant.

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