Tag: lawsuit
School District Fails 1984
port1080.
Posted to Etcetera on Thu Feb 18, 2010 at 09:01:35 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
A school district in the Philadelphia suburbs has been accused of using school issued laptops to spy on students. The laptops came with built in webcams and were installed with software that allowed the school to access them remotely and without the student's knowledge, even when off school property.
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Have Yourself A NIMBY Christmas -- Houston Style.
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Wed Dec 09, 2009 at 11:45:16 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Don't expect Harry Arthur to play Santa Claus this year. If anything, the Houston attorney ought to try out for the part of the Grinch. Because Arthur maintains his law offices in an upscale part of downtown Houston and because the sight of the homeless offends him so, Arthur has come up with a novel approach to the problem of homelessness - starve the "derelicts". He's not about forceably removing food from their mouths; he'd like the courts to do his dirty work for him. He filed a lawsuit asking the courts to shut down a day ministry feeding homeless people.
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Never Mind This Pistol I'm Waving In Your Face. This Is Just A Drill.
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 03:20:47 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Things got very tense for pharmacy technician Babette Perry back on Christmas Eve of 2007. She was on duty at the Hampton Behavioral Health Center in Mount Holly, New Jersey when a masked gunman confronted Perry demanding Oxycontin while claiming he held a coworker hostage in another room. Throughout the incident, Perry had no doubts her life (and that of her coworker) were in jeopardy. When she tried to call for police, her phone wasn't working. After the incident was over, imagine Perry's surprise to find out there would not be a police investigation. Imagine her shock at finding out the "holdup" was a security drill staged by her employer. Imagine how much money Perry wants her employer to pay her for the post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) she claims the drill caused.
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Redskin Fans Get Hit Hard By Team's Offensive Line
MayorBob.
Posted to Sport on Sun Sep 06, 2009 at 08:46:53 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
American football fans are a breed apart. Especially the fans who are so emotionally attached to their teams that they are willing to fork over the moolah required to pay for Personal Seat Licenses (PSLs) and season tickets. But, hey, you're a part of something greater than yourself. You're part of the team and well-loved by the ownership. At least that's the line most National Football League clubs feed to their adoring fans as they're taking their money. But, when things are tight and you can't afford the season tickets, your club will work with you and figure out a way to honor your decades of faithful devotion, right? Wrong. At least not if you're a Washington Redskins fan like Pat Hill who is being rewarded for close to a half century of devotion by being sued into bankruptcy by the team she loves.
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Come For The Spa And The Rape Is On You.
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Thu Aug 20, 2009 at 07:06:05 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
A 40 year old woman, identified only as Jane Doe in court papers, can breath a little easier now. It's not like the whole world is going to blame her for the crime that was committed on her. It's not like a major hotel corporation didn't try to do that. But cooler heads at Marriott must have prevailed because the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa has withdrawn their novel defense in a lawsuit the woman brought against them. It is now willing to admit that she is not in any way responsible for being raped at gunpoint in front of her children in the Connecticut hotel's parking garage.
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You Paid How Much For A Hypoallergenic Cat? LOLCat LOLs At U!
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Tue Aug 18, 2009 at 11:32:26 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
One of the things that holds a lot of people back from owning a cat is the hellacious allergic reactions to the animals. What this country needs is a hypoallergenic cat. One company says it has developed the breed and they're selling them, at a stiff price, but selling them nonetheless. The problem is that they're having problems delivering what they've sold and that has the company in court with dissatisfied customers.
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All Clucked Up
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 01:09:12 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The rollout of Kentucky Grilled Chicken by Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) was going to be humongous! They were going to give away chicken. The chicken was going to be healthier than KFC's standard fare. You could download coupons over the internet. They had Oprah on their side. But rather than reveling in their big success, the Colonel's people were wallowing in their complete failure.
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Cyberbullying - The New Face Of Debt Collection?
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Mon May 04, 2009 at 09:23:40 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Pity the poor bill collector. Day in and day out they hear the same tired excuses and broken promises from people who owe money. "The check's in the mail" is a mantra. Bill collectors will wait a day or two with no payment and their bullshit meter will go off. Collecting on a bill gangland-style is definitely a no-no, so what can they do? They could repossess whatever they have as collateral, but its value might not be enough to settle the bill. They could take you to court, but that's expensive and there's no guarantee a judgment will ever come up with money. What's a bill collector to do? Hey, this is the 21st century, the digital age, and it might be time to turn cyberbullying into a business model.
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At Chrysler, Grave Robbing Is Job One
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Sun Mar 15, 2009 at 10:02:23 PM EST (promoted by wetkarma). RSS.
Harold St. John breathed his last on February 28th. He passed away following a year's battle with pleural mesothelioma cancer. Today, his grave is still empty. Not because his family is taking their time in burying him. Minutes before St. John was to be lowered into his grave, representatives from Chrysler and Honeywell served a subpoena on the family and kept St. John's body out of his grave.
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No Refunds And No Exchanges -- Just Lawsuits In The Garden State
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 09:27:38 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
How many times have you been able to make things right if you believed you got ripped off by an unscrupulous merchant? In order to get set right, you would need the thing you bought returned undamaged, in the original box (depending on size of course), within a certain number of days of purchase, and with a store receipt. Some or all of those variants are what is needed to get satisfaction in most places. Most places don't include the state of New Jersey, however, because the state's highest court ruled you don't even need to bother complaining to the merchant about your problem. According to merchants throughout the Garden State, this is the first step down the slippery slope of frivolous lawsuits. According to the side that won the case and consumer activists, it's simply justice.
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors. This One Needs A Really, Really High One.
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Sat Jan 03, 2009 at 10:39:30 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
In fact, 88-year-old Edna Jester of Blue Ash, Ohio might need a fence high enough so her next door neighbors can't toss stuff onto her back yard. After a blow up with the Tanis family last October, which resulted in her arrest for petty theft and subsequent dropping of those charges, you might have thought this oddball story had come to a quick end. However, 2009 finds us considering the plight of Jester and her neighbors yet again. Either the oddball story has reached a higher level of inanity or karma has come home to roost for the football-flinging Tanis family.
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Nobody Was Looking For Him.
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Fri Nov 14, 2008 at 03:41:58 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
You can file this one under Stupid Lawsuits or Fight for Consumer Justice. Believe it or not, there lives and breathes a person who responded to an email who learned the sender wasn't being truthful. So mortified at being lied to by email (not to mention loss of money) Anthony Michaels of San Diego is taking the sender to court for successfully duping him.
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