It’s tough for an employer to win an employee discrimination claim once the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) gets involved. It’s even more difficult to win and get paid attorneys’ fees. Score one for employer Agro Distribution when a court recently ordered the EEOC to pay the company’s legal fees after it concluded that the [...]
Archive for July, 2009
28 Jul
To Mother with Love: A Lawsuit
A civil jury in New Jersey awarded a man nearly $100,000 in a lawsuit he filed against his mother. John Garrity was installing hardwood floors in his mother’s home when she tapped him on the shoulder to tell him that lunch was ready. Garrity, who was using a miter saw at the time, quickly turned [...]
28 Jul
Cap’n Crunch Sails Through Lawsuit
A California judge recently dismissed a lawsuit against the makers of Cap’n Crunch with Crunchberries cereal after finding that the product box clearly depicts the round, crunchy berries as cereal balls and not real fruit as the plaintiff assumed. According to a class action complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of [...]
28 Jul
Who’s the Boss?
A Quebec dad, unhappy with the amount of time his daughter was spending surfing the Internet, chatting on Web sites and posting “inappropriate pictures” of herself online, grounded his daughter from attending a school trip that his ex-wife had already approved. Not taking “no” for an answer, the daughter sued – and won. The father, [...]
28 Jul
Take Me Out to the Courtroom
Recently, a baseball fan sued the New York Yankees after alleging that he was ejected from the stadium by police after he left his seat during the seventh-inning-stretch. Bradford Campeau-Laurion says his rights were violated when he tried to pass a police officer to use the restroom during the singing of “God Bless America,” a [...]
28 Jul
OMG: We R Suing
Walking and texting may be hazardous to your health. So hazardous that you may just have to sue. And that’s exactly what the parents of 15-year-old Alexa Longueira have done. According to news reports, Alexa was so busy tapping out a text message on her cell phone while walking along Victory Boulevard in Staten Island [...]
28 Jul
Lawsuit Claims Strange Bedfellows
A Missouri man is suing Apple, the St. Louis Police Department, unknown agents of the FBI, a private investigator and an auto mechanic, accusing the defendants of conspiring with the Mafia to stalk, extort and torture the plaintiff. Gregory McKenna claimed in his lawsuit filed in a U.S. District Court in Missouri that after purchasing [...]
28 Jul
Former AMA President Counters Organization’s Endorsement of Government-Run Health Care
President Obama’s plan for a government-run health care system hit a major snag this week as a Washington Post-ABC News nationwide poll revealed that support for the plan is waning. According to the survey, only 49% of Americans support the president’s plan for healthcare reform, a percentage lower than it has ever been. In addition, [...]
28 Jul
156 Organizations and Activists, Including CFIF, Urge Opposition to Judge Sotomayor’s Confirmation to U.S. Supreme Court
In a letter sent to all 100 Members of the United States Senate, the Center for Individual Freedom (“CFIF”) this week joined with 156 state and national organizations and activists, representing millions of Americans, to express opposition to the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to be the next associate justice on the [...]
