[.::Tin Can::.]

Boy oh boy. Has our time been loaded with the stupidest cases I have seen in a long time. Starts with someone moron spilling McDonnals coffee on their lap and then sues and wins. Now we have a whole chain of diseased lawsuits.

One of my favorites has to be the morons suing Evanescense because they sang the "F-word" when their daughter was listening to the CD. Instead of taking it back, they decided to sue for, what was it, 2 million?

Next up we have the man suing the company that sold him his car because he ran over his own daughter with the car. His excuse is that the car did not have safety feature available like the others, but then again its only optional.

Next up, we have various lawsuits from the Stella Awards website, which is somewhere on google. You might want to check it out, since the stuff people sue for is outrageous.

[Liberator]

Your examples are not diseased, Tin, they are examples of how degenerate our society has become and how badly we need torte reform.

[Ulala]

Quick, someone sue someone legit, like Valve!

[aldo_14]

Well, to be honest I can't really complain at people suing Evanescense , because they're whiny ****ebags and I would shed no tears if they were removed from the face if the planet.  

The rest...well, you have the worlds highest population of lawyers, what did you expect?

[redmenace]

First off, that woman that burned her self recieved 2nd and 3rd degree burns. The coffee was about 250-300F(IIRC). McDonalds did not excercise due care and there fore was sued and lost. As for tort reform, never have I ever seen a greater travesty of states rights that this. Tort reform at the state level is the states responcibility, not the federal Gov't. If the states wish to limit it themselves: more power to 'em.

[Knight Templar]

Third degree burns? From coffee?

[Ghostavo]

Are any of these lawsuits in europe? Just curiosity...

[Rictor]

Incidentally, what exactly is tort reform? It sounds like some sort of cake to me ("torta" being cake in my language.).

[Nico]

Originally posted by Ghostavo
Are any of these lawsuits in europe? Just curiosity...

Probably. Mmh, I wonder, tho, coz we occasionaly hear about those US cases, from times to times, and never european ones. And, trust me, we have people here who love to throw **** around and such things wouldn't go unheard of
Not like our justice ( well, French one, at least, can't speak for the others ) isn't full of holes either, tho...

[Ghostavo]

Originally posted by Nico
Probably. Mmh, I wonder, tho, coz we occasionaly hear about those US cases, from times to times, and never european ones. And, trust me, we have people here who love to throw **** around and such things wouldn't go unheard of
Not like our justice ( well, French one, at least, can't speak for the others ) isn't full of holes either, tho...

I know, but usually people in the US have more tendency to start suing the government because it is raining, so I'm trying to see if we are catching up to them

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Nico


Probably. Mmh, I wonder, tho, coz we occasionaly hear about those US cases, from times to times, and never european ones. And, trust me, we have people here who love to throw **** around and such things wouldn't go unheard of
Not like our justice ( well, French one, at least, can't speak for the others ) isn't full of holes either, tho...

Yeah, they happen but they don't actually go to court 99.9% of the time in Europe.

If you put your cat (or dog) in the microwave untill it dies and then want sue the microwave company because it wasn't in the manual, you REALLY aren't going to get any European judge to even listen.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Tiara

Yeah, they happen but they don't actually go to court 99.9% of the time in Europe.

If you put your cat (or dog) in the microwave untill it dies and then want sue the microwave company because it wasn't in the manual, you REALLY aren't going to get any European judge to even listen.

everybody knows that stupid people.. (most of which, aparrently reside in the US judging by the amount of reality television there) are more likely to be pissed off by the most insignifigant, and otherwise, stupid things... add to that the greed factor.

[.::Tin Can::.]

The Stella Awards held the lawsuits that were filed and won, and the one that was most ridiculous (according to them) was the man who robbed a house but tried to exit through the garage. The garage door did not work, the door was locked behind him, thus he was trapped. When the couple returned from vacation and found him, he had been living off dog food for the past week. So, naturally, he sued them and won.

Anyone else think this man should be shot?

Yeah, they happen but they don't actually go to court 99.9% of the time in Europe.

I wish our court system was like this.

[pyro-manic]

Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
The Stella Awards held the lawsuits that were filed and won, and the one that was most ridiculous (according to them) was the man who robbed a house but tried to exit through the garage. The garage door did not work, the door was locked behind him, thus he was trapped. When the couple returned from vacation and found him, he had been living off dog food for the past week. So, naturally, he sued them and won.

Anyone else think this man should be shot?

 

I wish our court system was like this.

Nah, he should have all his limbs broken and be left in the sun for the vultures.

What you need to get is some halfway decent judges. People in Europe who try to bring cases like that to court just get told to piss off and stop messing about....

[Stealth]

no it's only (mainly) in america... because you have those greedy idiots who will sue for literally anything they can make money from.

if you get in a car wreck, the person you hit will have all their expenses paid through insurance, but after that they can still sue you... it's a whole money-making business.

my professor was just telling us yesterday how he built a basketball court in the back of his house, and the kids from the neighborhood would come play there with his kids (who are both heavily involved in school basketball), and the one time one of the kids twisted his ankle, and a few days later there was a lawsuit filed against him (my professor)... can you believe that?

also, i heard about the coffee burns years ago, maybe this is a newer lawsuit.

[mitac]

Last year we had that lawsuit over here where a guy sued Coca Cola and Nestlé. He had eaten bunches of chocolate and drank lots of Coke at work over a longer period of time, thus getting diabetes. He said the ads had seduced him into believing this stuff gives a lot of energy - which basically isn't wrong. But he also stated the ads had not warned about possible side-effects of long-term consumption, just like diabetes.

The moron lost the case. Funny thing is - he was a judge himself, which generally are not regarded as the dumbest folks, at least here.

[Triple Ace]

Originally posted by Ulala
Quick, someone sue someone legit, like Valve!

No kiddin, myself along with a few thousand other people are just waitin to tear into them. Also, don't forget the guy that sued McDonalds for getting fat by eating to much of their food.

[Liberator]

Torte reform is a process by which the litigation system is altered for the better.  

The reason that there are so many dumbass lawsuits is because you can file suit for a few hundred dollars, win or lose, it's far too easy to sue someone.  

The largest problem I see is that there are judges who will actually hear a case about an admitted theif suing the people he tried to rob because he was dumb enough to get locked up in a garage, it has no merit.  We need judges who will sit there, hear these stupid arguments, then laugh their asses off in court and throw the plaintiffs out on there ears.

[.::Tin Can::.]

Originally posted by Liberator
Torte reform is a process by which the litigation system is altered for the better.  

The reason that there are so many dumbass lawsuits is because you can file suit for a few hundred dollars, win or lose, it's far too easy to sue someone.  

The largest problem I see is that there are judges who will actually hear a case about an admitted theif suing the people he tried to rob because he was dumb enough to get locked up in a garage, it has no merit.  We need judges who will sit there, hear these stupid arguments, then laugh their asses off in court and throw the plaintiffs out on there ears.

Hear hear!

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Liberator
The largest problem I see is that there are judges who will actually hear a case about an admitted theif suing the people he tried to rob because he was dumb enough to get locked up in a garage, it has no merit.  We need judges who will sit there, hear these stupid arguments, then laugh their asses off in court and throw the plaintiffs out on there ears.

For once I agree with you 100% Lib. Such cases have no merit whatsoever. In the UK they'd almost certainly be thrown out long before they got to court.

That said if I was the plaintiff in such a case I'd sue for the dog's pain and suffering on finding that someone had eaten it's food. Any judge who believed that the thief deserved compensation would probably find for the dog too.