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...cashier Randy Maresh, who seemed to delight in tormenting Morgan. At length Morgan got fed up, hired a lawyer and sued Maresh for $100,000 in damages. The complaint: Maresh "willfully and maliciously inflicted severe mental stress and humiliation . . . by continually, intentionally and repeatedly passing gas directed at the plaintiff." Not only that: Maresh would "hold it and walk funny to get to me" before expressing himself...
...courts busy for years. Ten university attorneys, in fact, work full time solely on cases involving employees. In one recent imbroglio, a U.C. Santa Cruz employee, citing emotional stress, sued a colleague and the university after the colleague wrote a message on official stationery labeling him a racist. The plaintiff lost his case in two courts and plans to appeal to the state supreme court. He has meanwhile retired on a disability pension...
These and similar actions are fertilized by new rules of comparative negligence that allow a plaintiff to recover damages in a lawsuit even if he is partly at fault; this means, for example, that a drunk driver who demolishes an illegally parked car can claim some damages from the defendant's insurer. Changes in ethical guidelines, moreover, permit attorneys to advertise for clients -- all of which has made the lawsuit business a battleground for greedy practitioners. The survey firm Jury Verdict Research estimates that jury awards to plaintiffs of $1 million or more leaped from...
...judge threw out four of Geller's five claims, such as the assertion that the ad violated his right to control his own image and publicity. The case will now proceed on the sole claim that Tim Dry, the actor featured in the commercials, "was sufficiently similar to the plaintiff to create the likelihood of confusion among the public," an allegation that the watchmaker firmly rejects. You be the judge...
...turned out, the opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy showed considerable understanding of how speech is translated into print. Kennedy condoned the widespread journalistic practice of emending quotations in the areas of grammar and syntax and went even further, stating that "deliberate alteration of the words uttered by a plaintiff does not equate with knowledge of falsity" for the purpose of meeting the actual malice test for libel suits brought by a public figure. Changing a quotation, Kennedy reasoned, can betray a reckless disregard for the truth only "when the alteration results in a material change in the meaning conveyed...