Archive for the ‘Lawsuits’ Category
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Chiropractors are notoriously one of the most controversial members of the medical world, and recently UK chrios have been second guessing their participation in the field.
Last year, Dr. Simon Singh was sued by the British Chiropractic Association for publishing his doubts on what some chiropractors were claiming their care ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
We all know how bad it hurts when someone negatively comments on your work, but don’t they say “learn from your mistakes”, not “attempt to burry them in an enraged public display”?
Well, law professor Karin Calvo-Goller didn’t get the memo.
After writing a book entitled Trial Proceedings of the International Criminal ...
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Bullies haven’t been cool since Biff Tannen graced our presence, and even he wasn’t the brightest crayon in the box. North Face has proven they’re not quite the cool guys in school like many may have believed them to be. When 18-year-old Jimmy Winkelmann created a parody brand, “South Butt,” North Face ...
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
It's kind of a sad story. University of Miami law professor Donald Marvin Jones was arrested in 2007 for soliciting a prostitute. He denied the claims, and the charges were later dropped. The law blog AboveTheLaw had written a series of posts about the story and included his faculty photo. ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Ralph Lauren has a new ad out with an impossibly skinny model in it. As Boing-Boing put it, "Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis".
The ad was highlighted on PhotoshopDisasters, as an example of (we really hope) bad Photoshopping. However, Ralph Lauren filed a (bogus) DMCA takedown notice on the ...
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
A small bank in Wyoming made a double-oops last month. They sent some sensitive information to the wrong Gmail address, but also included a document that shouldn't have been sent at all. They didn't want their customers to learn of the breach, so they've sued Google. Huh?
A customer of the ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
Sedgwick Claims Management looked bad, then worse, now awful. A guy was upset with the company so he took some pictures of Sedgwick and put them on fake "wanted" posters. Sedgwick responded by hiring a big national law firm (Lord Locke) to go after the guy, who chose to defend ...
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Not only didn't I know she might be considered a "skank", I had never even heard of her. However, because of a short-sighted lawsuit to uncover the identity of a blogger that called her that, a lot more people now know.
This is another case where letting it slide would have ...
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
This one is a perfect example of the Streisand Effect -- a company that has a small problem, they try to hide it, and it explodes!
A woman in Chicago, Amanda Bonnen, was having some problems with her apartment so she sent the following Tweet:
"Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment ...
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