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Yahoo Human Rights Lawsuit

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Aug 282007

Yahoo has been accused of aiding the Chinese government in stopping the spread of democracy in that country. In San Francisco federal court, the World Organization for Human Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of Wang Xiaoning’s wife.

Wang Xiaoning was jailed in China for the online promotion of democracy and subversive behavior against the government. Yahoo is accused of aiding and abetting the Chinese government by collecting personal data such as name and address of its bloggers and handing this information over to the Chinese.

Mattel Lawsuit Seeks Testing Children For Lead Poisoning

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Aug 222007

A lawsuit against Mattel was filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court. The Mattel class action lawsuit seeks monetary damages that will go towards testing children for lead poisoning because of the paint used on the toy products.

The massive Mattel recall involved toys made in China that were manufactured with lead paint and also toys that had small magnets that could fall off and choke small children. The Mattel lawsuit is the first of its kind, but more litigation of the same nature will likely follow.

Lindsay Lohan Looks Personal Injury Lawsuit in Face

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Aug 152007

Tracie Rice has teamed up with a couple of California personal injury lawyers to sue the troubled actress Lindsay Lohan for assault and infliction of emotional distress. The claim states that Miss Lohan chased Rice through the city streets of Los Angeles and could have cause physical injury or death.

Michelle Peck was driving the car that Rice was in before the high-speed chase ensued. Lohan was later arrested for DUI and booked on possession of narcotics as well. Rice is asking for unspecified damages in the lawsuit.

Minnesota 35W Bridge Lawsuits Likely

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Aug 092007

As soon as the Minnesota Interstate 35W Bridge collapsed, there was an immediate call from the public regarding who was responsible for this tragedy. While the cause and responsibility of the bridge collapse may be 6 months to 1 year away as investigators put together the pieces of what had happened, initial reports say that lawsuits are immanent.

Private contractors and insurers could face hundreds of millions of dollars in wrongful death lawsuits and to a much lesser extent, the government could face a much smaller payout as well. Minnesota state’s liability is limited to $1 million total in the incident. Besides wrongful death, other insurance claims will most likely involve auto claims, property damage, worker’s compensation and even business interruption.

O.J. Simpson Book Rights Go to Goldman’s

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Jul 312007

In Florida, a Federal bankruptcy judge’s court-appointed trustee has awarded Fred Goldman the rights to O. J. Simpson’s unpublished book titled “If I Did It.” The awarding of rights will help with the $38 million wrongful death lawsuit that the Brown’s and Goldman’s had previously won, but have barely collected upon.

The Brown’s who stepped into the book lawsuit at the last minute will be awarded 10-percent of the proceeds of the sale of the Simpson chronicles with the Goldman’s being awarded the remainder. Fred Goldman and Denise Brown are currently at odds as to whether the book should be published at all.

Fred Goldman at first did not want “If I Did It” published and took legal action to have it blocked from sale. Goldman has changed his stance since then, but Denise Brown has stated that she believes copycat killings will result from the publishing of the book and thus does not want the manuscript to be made public.

Many Bitter After $660 Million Catholic Priest Settlement

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Jul 242007

The recent $660 million settlement in the Catholic Priest sexual abuse scandal in Southern California has left some vindicated and others outraged. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles led by Cardinal Roger M. Mahony settled the case days before Mahony would have had to testify at trial.

The settlement, the largest ever for a case of this type, covered 508 plaintiffs who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy. By many accounts, Mahony himself was able to escape further criminal and civil charges with the settlement even though he was negligent in reporting incident of sexual abuse and child rape to police authorities and chose instead to reassign priests to different locations.

McDonald’s In Hot Water Again with Lawsuit

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Jul 102007

Well, the hot coffee lawsuit against McDonald’s several years ago was bad enough and now the mega-burger chain is in hot water again for refusing service to a woman born with Holt-Oram Syndrome (hands six inches from her shoulders).

Since birth, Dawn Larson has used her feet instead of her hands and has even managed to grasp hold of a driver’s permit. According to the lawsuit, an employee and manager at the McDonald’s restaurant in Rockford, Illinois refused her service because of her disability. The employee is reported to have said, before closing the window on Larson, “Oh, no, I’m not doing this”.

To add insult to injury, Larson later received from McDonald’s $10 in gift certificates to compensate her for the humiliating incident witnessed by her children who were in the car at the time. The amount of the lawsuit has not been disclosed.

Personal Injury Lawsuit Filed Against Pit bull Owner

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Jun 292007

The Stinson family in Charlotte Harbor, has filed a lawsuit on behalf of their 14-year-old daughter who was mauled by a pit bull on March 17 while she was walking home from school. According to the Sun Herald a pit bull named Diesel attacked the girl causing her to receive stitches for the defensive wounds.

The owner of the dog, Michael Davis and property owner John J. Steger are both named in the lawsuit for allowing the dog to roam free. The pit bull was put to sleep by Animal Control officers on March 30 after being deemed a menace. Davis also faces criminal misdemeanor charges for reckless disregard in this same incident.

Family of Ill Children File Taco Bell Lawsuit

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Jun 212007

Taco Bell was more like Taco Hell to the Keith Andrew family in Sydney, Nebraska, when after dining at the restaurant in October 2005, their two children, ages 4 and 7-years-old became violently. The youngest of the children spent a night in the hospital for gastroenteritis and dehydration and the other became ill as well.

The lawsuit alleges that Keith Andrew, a local police officer and his family were being targeted by employees, who urinated and spit on food and put it in a special pan just for local cops. The lawsuit also alleges that management knew of the practice and was negligence to act to protect patrons.

GlaxoSmithKline Diabetes Drug Lawsuit Filed

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Jun 122007

A class action lawsuit has been filed in New York against pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline regarding their diabetes drug, Avandia. According to the lawsuit, GlaxoSmithKline failed to disclose that Avandia increased the risk for heart attack in patients taking the drug.

After recent congressional hearings, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration has asked the pharmaceutical company to place a “black box” warning on the diabetes drug, which indicates the most serious of warnings jus short of pulling a drug from the market. The study citing the increased risk of heart attack was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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