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Not dry, boring lawsuits, of course, but the stupid idiots trying to get away with crime lawsuits, or just interesting ones. Sovereign citizen posts are also fun. https://www.reddit.com/r/bestoflegaladvice This is a goldmine of people trying to get advice from the internet, and it backfiring spectacularly. https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/4cbavd/unjust_situation_in_florida_my_friend_got_denied/ quote:So my friend needs help but I don't know what to do or how to help. Basically the situation is that he tried to get custody of his kid from his ex-girlfriend. She won the lottery last year but she wouldn't help him out when he needed so he thought if he got custody she would have to pay him child support.
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This is the dumbest one I've seen. Some dickbag decided that Starbucks underfills their lattes because 'the volume of the foam doesn't count', and he is now suing.
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gamingCaffeinator posted:This is the dumbest one I've seen. This could have long term ramifications in the future case of "these cereal boxes are only like 1/3 full"
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Aesop Poprock posted:This could have long term ramifications in the future case of "these cereal boxes are only like 1/3 full" Except cereal boxes print their actual weight of product (similar to chips, etc) so they're upfront with you that the box is 1/3 full. Good luck with that case. The Starbucks one is idiotic because he's clearly confused "Fl Oz" with "Oz", thinking that since the foam is lighter weight it shouldn't count against his 8 fl. oz drink. E; From the Schadenfreude thread: Canuckistan posted:That Awesome Time I Was Sued for Two Billion Dollars Judge Schnoopy has a new favorite as of 18:19 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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anyone tempted to bring up McDonald's Coffee Lady should learn better in the process of picking a link.
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gamingCaffeinator posted:This is the dumbest one I've seen. It basically boils down to what starbucks is selling, fluid or volume of a fluid. He's not actually completely wrong about it. What he is wrong about is thinking that somehow buying a coffee from starbucks is a good idea when their coffee is not only trash but they don't pay taxes Drone_Fragger has a new favorite as of 18:45 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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Drone_Fragger posted:It basically boils down to what starbucks is selling, fluid or volume of a fluid. He's not actually completely wrong about it. It's also hilarious that the claim is Starbucks is saving millions!!! of dollars by skimping on a few ounces of coffee. They still haven't internalized that their $5 coffee only costs Starbucks $0.40 to make. If they cut 25% of the coffee out, Starbucks isn't saving themselves $1.25 per cup, they're saving 10 cents per cup. "'I think I spend about $70 a week here (Starbucks),' said Dylan Howard of Moorhead (the plaintiff)."
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I don't know if it counts as a lawsuit because I'm not sure it ever went to court, but is Curtis Got Slapped By A White Teacher a valid response? Because it should be. The TLDR for those of you that have never heard of it: insane sovereign citizen mom's kid gets smacked in the face by a teacher, so she writes a crazy 40-page manifesto to the school, the state, and to the feds (specifically President Obama) full of demands, declarations, threats, and just reams of complete loving insanity. Fritz Coldcockin has a new favorite as of 20:34 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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Alter Ego posted:I don't know if it counts as a lawsuit because I'm not sure it ever went to court, but is Curtis Got Slapped By A White Teacher a valid response? Any insane documents that the government is forced to look at is fine for the sake of this thread, because I don't want to limit the schadenfreude
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Can someone explain what a sovereign citizen is? From how I get it, they seem to think they'll be immune to the law, not pay taxes and still live with all the benefits of being a regular citizen.
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Leavemywife posted:Can someone explain what a sovereign citizen is? From how I get it, they seem to think they'll be immune to the law, not pay taxes and still live with all the benefits of being a regular citizen. They distinguish between their federal entity (a name with a bunch of documentation attached to it) and their physical self (their person), and claim that by acting as their physical self they are immune to most procedures and laws as those laws are enforced on their entity. They are, however, entitled to federal benefits (such as legal protection, bill of rights, so forth) that are provided to their entity. It's a bunch of *top secret* logic loops that they believe were installed as a back door by Illuminati or Freemasons or Lizard People to allow themselves freedom above the system. They think that by invoking this logic they too can be above the system, a sovereign citizen.
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Leavemywife posted:Can someone explain what a sovereign citizen is? From how I get it, they seem to think they'll be immune to the law, not pay taxes and still live with all the benefits of being a regular citizen. Somebody who thinks that a flag with a gold fringe means that the building it's in operates under maritime law.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:They distinguish between their federal entity (a name with a bunch of documentation attached to it) and their physical self (their person), and claim that by acting as their physical self they are immune to most procedures and laws as those laws are enforced on their entity. They are, however, entitled to federal benefits (such as legal protection, bill of rights, so forth) that are provided to their entity.
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Sestze posted:According to sovereign citizen logic, there also exists a $200,000 bond that every citizen has given at birth that can be invoked in the case of outstanding personal debt or litigation. Now is that personal debt to their entity or to their person? More than 1 layer deep the whole thing really starts falling apart. Capitalization is also extremely important. Birth certificates contain all caps, so PHILLIP BE BANGIN identifies the legal entity that is part of the federal government, is given a social security number, and is the instrument against which all litigation is processed. Phillip B. Bangin identifies the physical person, but the person is not bound to that name, it's merely for the ease of communication and social representation.
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Now is that personal debt to their entity or to their person? More than 1 layer deep the whole thing really starts falling apart. "I'm at the DMV with my dog, which they don't allow dogs unless for medical reasons. I'll take a video of myself with my dog, talking constantly to my dog, so that the government knows that this dog is special and is providing me emotional comfort in these trying times."
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Alter Ego posted:Somebody who thinks that a flag with a gold fringe means that the building it's in operates under maritime law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSO9OFJNMBA
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Leavemywife posted:Can someone explain what a sovereign citizen is? From how I get it, they seem to think they'll be immune to the law, not pay taxes and still live with all the benefits of being a regular citizen. Basically Dale Gribble.
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That was the first one that sprang to mind. So much more accessible than the sovereign citizen nonsense and proof that lawyers can have a sense of humor. As an attorney I really don't want to comment on the cases that seem really egregiously stupid today, but between C&D letters like this and what Donald Trump's attorney shits out daily there is plenty of ammunition for hilarity. The rich white girl that actually got job offers and sued her law school for misrepresentation of post-grad employment stats is now over, so that's done. The "Affluenza" idiot is now universally determined to be just a douche wrapped in Daddy's Franklins, The So. Baptist moron that refused to issue gay marriage licenses is old news, and I suppose that everyone has hears about the moron occupying that federal building out in Oregon suing Satan...wait; you haven't? Well, here you go! http://loweringthebar.net/2016/02/oregon-occupier-devil-suit.html This one strikes close to home for me: https://popehat.com/2016/02/03/marc-randazza-batman-porn/ And for those that bring up the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit...that one was pretty legit , to be honest. Honestly, I have to say that ridiculous legal news is worth looking up even if you are not an attorney. You can learn a lot about how things actually get to the point where they subjectively seem ludicrous, and it will start to make a lot more sense to you. You'll also stop watching any news related to court cases, because the media at-large is the worst place to try to glean understanding of the actual legal issues. You can go beyond Trayvon, OJ, and Casey and skip right to some probably reasonable guy just trying to take the train home without having all the suburban idiots yelling into their cell phones all around him: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-cell-phone-jamming-red-line-20160309-story.html Oh, and one last thing: just google Prenda. Enjoy. Edit: FYI, this is why sovereign citizen idiots are subject to as much scorn as they are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ4c5atUjsE KaiserSchnitzel has a new favorite as of 06:59 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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Beekeeping and You posted:Any insane documents that the government is forced to look at is fine for the sake of this thread, because I don't want to limit the schadenfreude abovethelaw.com link
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I don't know the exact details, and can't be arsed looking for them: But there was the case where an old retired judge sued a Korean Laundry place for burning his suit pants for a bajillion dollars in damages. His argument was they had a sign that said "satisfaction guaranteed", and that he wasn't satisfied. The case went to court and went through several appeal processes, (I think), with the judges knowing that it was spurious, but having to follow the exact letter of the law and every bullshit little procedure because the plaintiff was a retired judge that knew the law. He brought in several nonsensical witnesses, including if I remember rightly, an old woman who had nothing to do with the incident but instead just complained about the holocaust. The family that ran the laundry was nearly bankrupted by all the legal fees, and court costs etc, and had to rely on donations to even eat and pay rent. I dunno how it ended.
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Pearson vs Chung. The lawsuit featured stupidity like a 60 something year old man crying over a lost pair of pants, a witness complaing about the holocaust, and even as the inspiration for an episode of Law & Order. After the case got national media attention, some lawyers stepped forth to represents the Chungs per bono, and donations covered the legal costs they had earlier incurred. It ultimately ended with the case being ruled in favor of the Dry cleaners, Pearson being fined something like 12k in his divorce proceedings from his wife, his term as a sitting judge not being extended (yes, a sitting judge sued someone for an absurd sum of money over a pair of pants), and generally being lampooned in the media. He appealed, lost, appealed again, lost. He also sued the Office of Administrative Hearings for wrongful termination (in relation to not having his term as judge extended), which was thrown out. So yeah. A sitting judge ruined his career over a pair of pants.
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FFT posted:anyone tempted to bring up McDonald's Coffee Lady should learn better in the process of picking a link. Yeah, gotta admit I was one of those folks years ago thinking "jeez thats dumb, of course coffee is hot. What a dummy" then a buddy I said that to was like "woah dude no, here look at the pictures." They're horrific, that lady deserved every penny she got.
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All of you lieberals siding with the money grubbing geezer stealing from a poor ol' multinational corporation. This is why everyone else is beating us! Grow a pair and read through the lines. Hot coffee was just a distraction from hotter coffee(9/11) Learn the truth! Anyway, after you've learned the truth, have a gander at ye olde "[Jonathon Lee Riches] sues everyone" http://citypaper.net/articles/2006-04-13/NC_FP_Lawsuit.pdf
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Postal Parcel posted:All of you lieberals siding with the money grubbing geezer stealing from a poor ol' multinational corporation. This is why everyone else is beating us! Grow a pair and read through the lines. Hot coffee was just a distraction from hotter coffee(9/11) Learn the truth! Oh my god, the list really keeps going for 57 pages
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He sued Warsaw Pact, NSDAP, Plato and Christopher Reeve's widow e: Jesus Christ this keeps going. Gervasius has a new favorite as of 10:24 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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Gervasius posted:He sued Warsaw Pact, NSDAP, Plato and Christopher Reeve's widow I'm more concerned that he chose to sue Weird Al Yankovic. The man is clearly a monster.
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The notorious case of R v David Allan Baldwin [2012] Unreported, before the Honourable and Incredibly Patient Daubney J. I haven't had the pleasure of appearing before Justice Daubney, but I've read enough of the man's cases to know that he enjoys a good laugh in judgements and his Courtrooms is well-regarded in the community, hell he's been known to spout poetry and theatre in Court before. But sometimes even the most lighthearted of our learned Justices can be pushed a little far. I also recommend reading The Justinian for all your Australian legal news, because Christ knows the Reports are dull as custard.
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tentative8e8op posted:Oh my god, the list really keeps going for 57 pages How do you sue a generic gay pride parade?
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TheDon01 posted:Yeah, gotta admit I was one of those folks years ago thinking "jeez thats dumb, of course coffee is hot. What a dummy" then a buddy I said that to was like "woah dude no, here look at the pictures." People just heard the part where McDonalds was required to put "Coffee Hot" on the cups or something, which is pretty dumb and doesn't help the issue of them serving coffee hot enough to fuse skin anyway.
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Aphrodite posted:People just heard the part where McDonalds was required to put "Coffee Hot" on the cups or something, which is pretty dumb and doesn't help the issue of them serving coffee hot enough to fuse skin anyway. The kicker for me was the internal memo where they explicitly said they knew they had a responsibility to do something but it'd be cheaper to pay settlements than update training manuals, etc.
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Canuckistan posted:That Awesome Time I Was Sued for Two Billion Dollars Lonnie G. Schmidt writes the date as “October 18, 2001 A.D.” What a a dumbass. Anno Domini is a prefix, not a suffix.
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Platystemon posted:Lonnie G. Schmidt writes the date as “October 18, 2001 A.D.” I'm a notary and you would be surprised the number of times I've seen the distinction that papers are signed this year AD. The papers are always a form letter from legalzoom and it probably came about when some bitch was left out of a will and challenged the validity of a document based on not being clear if the paper was forged because it is very unlikely the thing was signed 4000 years ago. Then again I'm a notary and not a lawyer.
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https://www.gofundme.com/47uexn9c TLDR Idiot game developers try to raise money to file a lawsuit against a fat English video game critic because he laughs at their terrible games so they think he's costing them millions of dollars in lost sales.
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im pooping! posted:I'm a notary and you would be surprised the number of times I've seen the distinction that papers are signed this year AD. The papers are always a form letter from legalzoom and it probably came about when some bitch was left out of a will and challenged the validity of a document based on not being clear if the paper was forged because it is very unlikely the thing was signed 4000 years ago. Then again I'm a notary and not a lawyer. Wouldn’t it be a good thing to have the other party making dumb arguments like that?
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.gofundme.com/47uexn9c Haha holy gently caress, crowdfunding a lawsuit like that is the dumbest idea I've seen in a while
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quote:Arkell v. Pressdram (1971) [unreported]
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Beekeeping and You posted:Haha holy gently caress, crowdfunding a lawsuit like that is the dumbest idea I've seen in a while There's a guy in the coments who's using the opportunity to air his grievances about the Jim guy being sued and it's hilarious.
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This one came up in the OSHA thread: http://loweringthebar.net/2016/03/has-your-boss-ever.html quote:The association contended Mr. Bailey was fired for insubordination, suggesting he was too sensitive and was unable to “forgive and forget” certain conduct by his supervisor, Mr. English. Mr. Bailey’s position, however, was that he did not expect to be fired, and that it was unfair to fire him, for complaining about what Mr. English referred to as “pranks” but the ALJ referred to as, for example, “defecating into co-workers’ lunches.”
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http://abovethelaw.com/2014/12/lawyer-with-3-harvard-degrees-loses-his-mind-over-4-chinese-food-overcharge/ Harvard Law rear end in a top hat threatens to sue a family owned Chinese restaurant with two locations over a $4 discrepancy between the outdated online menu prices and what he was actually charged. Backs down when publicly shamed on the internet (and has probably learned nothing)
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