We live in a world that is not always logical. In fact it's usually not. We've all heard the stories of at least one insane lawsuit that has happened in the past. Just remember the story of the lady that dropped Mac Donald coffee on her laps and sued the company because it was hot. Yeah! But it happens a lot more frequently than you would probably like to believe. Wide allegations endow-rate laughable demands have filled our court system for a long time and continue to do so. In fact , some of the law suits that have taken place are so outrageous and ridiculous. So here is a list of lawsuits that's gonna make you go OK yeah this is the world that we live in.
Here are the 10 most ridiculous lawsuits ever filled.
1. HECKARD VS NIKE
In 2006, Allen Ray Heckard sued Michael Jordan and Nike for 832 million dollars on the grounds that his resemblance to the sport's legend and Nike's promotion of the star resulted in emotional pain, suffering, deformation and permanent injury. Of course, the lawsuit generated a huge media frenzy which in turn brought more unwanted attention in Allen's direction. The lawsuit continued and that was of course until he realized the scoop of the legal fees he will need in order to take on Michael Jordan and Nike. So Allen dropped the case .
2. KALKAN VS BATMAN
Back in 2008, Huseyin Kalkan the mayor of a town in Turkey called Batman, attended the screening of the dark night. In the days following, he setup to sue one of Warner Brothers for naming French Man psychological impact on the residence of the town and royalties. In the official lawsuit, the mayor proclaim that there is only one Batman in the world which was his defense of the lawsuit. He spent his time harder work collecting evidence that his town name predated the original 1939 Batman dc comic but was then arrested for promoting terrorism and the case was closed.
3. KEMP VS THE HOMELESS
In 2007, Karl Kemp the owner of a high end antique shop located on Madison Avenue New York City, sued the homeless for 1 million dollars. Karl court documents named the individuals John Smith, John Do, Bob Do and Jane Do because he didn't know the homeless people names. The four people had actually build a home on top of a hidden duct on the side walk in front of Karl's store and have been living there for over 2 years. But Karl was persistent that something needed to be done and took his court case to the supreme court, who took his lawsuit and said we are going to do absolutely nothing because they are homeless and they are not breaking any laws. And even if he won, what are they going to give him, certainly not a million dollars, you know may be blankets.
4. RICHES VS NASCAR
Jonathan Lee Riches, a former in mate of federal prison, filled a 23 million dollar lawsuit in 2007 against Nascar claiming that they were responsible his 217 km an hour speeding ticket. But it didn't end there because he also believe that the marketing for nascar forced him to commit credit card fraud and not surprising his case was dismissed. Even that did not stop Jonathan because he also tried suing for various reasons, the Efel tower, the planet Pluto, former president George W Bush, Steve Jobs and all of the survival of the Holocaust. Each one of those cases was dismissed and he has since been banned from receiving legal aid from America. Guess This guy is a winner.
5. CRAFT VS MTV
In 1997, Rod Craft legally changed his name to Jack Ass, as part of the movement to raise awareness about drinking and driving after his brother died in an accident. Well, three years later, MTV's popular TV series by the same name debut and this didn't sit well with Mr Ass. He sued the show for 10 million dollars and damages for plagiarism and deformation. His claim was that the crew's show damage his good name. Unfortunately, for Mr Ass the case was dismissed.
6. PEARSON VS THE DRY CLEANER
A Washington DC judge named Roy L. Pearson, had his pant misplaced by neighborhood dry cleaner in 2007. So Mr Pearson did what every logical person will do and sort compensation, the only way that an over educated lawyer knows how, by filling a 67 million dollar lawsuit against the mall in pop store owners. Then he realized that 67 million dollar is a little bit crazy so he lowered it to 54 million dollars. Another lawyer with some common sense ruled in favor of suing Chang the owner of the store. But the damage had already been done and the family business had to close their doors in three locations due to the legal fees. However, justice was served against Mr Pearson, because he was disband after a review board dimmed that he lacked appropriate judgement and judicial temperament. Also he is a douche bag.\
7. PIMP VS NIKE
In 2013, a 26 year old pimp named Judge Robert Durham was sentenced to a 100 years in prison for stabbing a face of a man who attempted to flee payment on one of his prostitutes. He said it wasn't his fault because at that time he was wearing a pair of Nike air Jordan and later came to conclusion that If Nike had placed a Warning sticker on the shoe warning him that they could be used as a deadly weapon, he wouldn't had done what he did. He tried seeking 100 million dollars in restitution but three Nike lawyers met with him in court and simply stated there is no detect with the shoes. So the case was thrown out.
8. CHISCOLM VS THE BANK OF AMERICA
Dalton Chiscol decided back in 2009 that he had had enough of the bank of America and their customer service. So he sued them for 1.784 billion trillion dollars. On top of this, he also demanded an additional 200,165 million dollars just because and he wanted it all the next day. A US district court Judge look at it and called the case incomprehensible and Dalton was laughed out of court.
9. GRANDMA VS THE RIAA
Back in 2005, you guys might remember that the recording industry association of America was trying to shot down music piracy, so they decided to start suing people at random. Remember they were suing college and university students. There was 20,000 lawsuits filled and one made its way to an 84 year old Gertrude Walton, who had downloaded and shared over 700 songs. Defendants could be charged up to 150,000 dollars per song meaning that she was in a lot of trouble except that after the lawsuit was filled, it was discovered that Gertrude had died a year prior. It was actually her niece that informed the RIAA over passing that Gertrude didn't even owned a computer. The RIAA eventually dropped the case.
10. BROCK VS HIMSELF
In 1995, a Virginian prisoner named Robert Lee Brock sued himself. His lawsuit read for violating my religious beliefs, i want to pay myself 5 million dollars but i ask state to pay for it since i can't work. He also promised that when released, he will pay back. Unfortunately, the judge didn't feel that the tax payers needed to further spend on his indiscretion and he was usher out of court and back to the cell.
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