Funny and strange instances of justice
Lawsuits generally project a scene of justice, anxiety, sobriety, and intense drama. But if the lawsuit is absurd and fought with the intensity of serious ones, it filled with fun and ridicule. Here are 9 most bizarre lawsuits:
1. MAFIA WARS: Cheryl Gary fell head over heels for Wylie Iwan, from Kennewick while hooked on to Mafia Wars game on Facebook. The online courtship resulted in her sending gifts to the man until she decided to meet him. Cheryl’s trip to Kennewick resulted in discovery of other women. Gary sued Facebook for USD 8,000, the expense which included her spending time and gift on Wylie and the trip she took.
2. INTEL: A Dutch lady sued the chip making company for getting her skin rashes. She blamed it on Intel Pentium processor for giving off radiation.
3. TWITTER: Amalda Bonnen tweeted about how tough it is to sleep in mouldy home, and included the landlord’s name in her tweet caught on with worldwide tweeters, she got 17 followers, and her landlord followed her with USD 50,000 lawsuit for destroying the company’s reputation.
4. BATMAN: Huseyin Kalkan, the mayor of a small Turkish town, Batman, filed lawsuit against Director Christopher Nolan for not getting permission from him to title the movie as Batman.
5. GOOGLE: Lauren Rosenberg sued Google for its Maps for giving her directions that resulted in an accident. Lauren said the app gave her directions to walk down the Deer Valley Dr in Park City. The place did not have sidewalks, so she got hit by car and sustained injuries. She sued both Google and Patrick Harwood, the person behind the wheels, for USD 100,000.
6. AUTO COMPLETE SUGGESTION: A search for ‘Bettina Wulff’ in Google auto completes it with ‘escort’ and ‘prostitute’. This was a big annoyance for the former first lady of Germany, wife of Christian Wulff, and he sued Google for defamation. Google also got sued by Lyonnaise de Garantie Bank for auto completing its name with terms like ‘con man’ and ‘crook’. The bank won USD 65,000 in the lawsuit.
7. ETRADE: When Etrade is an ad used the phrase ‘that milkahilic Lindsay’, the Hollywood actress got miffed and filed a USD 100 million lawsuit. Both parties reached on to an agreement that got Lindsay an undisclosed amount.
8. LIMEWIRE: LimeWire, a free peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) client programme landed in a soup over the songs downloaded using it. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) slapped Limewire with a USD 150,000 lawsuit claiming they should be paid each time the song was downloaded.
9. WI-FI: The Wi-Fi technology in schools was adopted in Chicago way back in 1995. Though it was a pretty technological advance in education system, the parents of students thought that Wi-Fi would cause radiation problems. Parents filed lawsuits to stop the use of this wireless technology.
