7 Unbelievable And Funny Lawsuits

Bipolar Woman Sues Dealer for Selling Her a Car.

Amy Berner, A Michigan woman, drove her six-month old car into a car showroom, and rolled out in a new Mazda.

Perhaps not all that unusual, except that the woman is now suing the dealership for taking advantage of her bipolar condition, which she claims is the reason behind her spur-of-the moment decision to lease the vehicle.

According to the Berner’s husband, the dealer said that they’d nix the deal if they received written proof from a doctor of her condition. According to her hubby, the letter was indeed sent, but the CX-9 was brought to their home anyway, and the keys left in their mailbox. (Link)

The Man Who Sued Satan.

 Gerald Mayo sued Satan in U.S. District Court, alleging that the Dark One had interfered in his life, causing him harm. Judge Weber dismissed the case, arguing that Mayo had failed to serve process of the suit to Satan, and that the court lacked jurisdiction over the defendant. Kevin Underhill’s legal humor blog has a copy of the decision:

Civil rights action against Satan and his servants who allegedly placed deliberate obstacles in plaintiff’s path and caused his downfall, wherein plaintiff prayed for leave to proceed in forma pauperis. The District Court, Weber, J., held that plaintiff would not be granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis who in view of questions of personal jurisdiction over defendant, propriety of class action, and plaintiff’s failure to include instructions for directions as to service of process.
Prayer denied.

The case was later used as a precedent during a case against God. (Link)

 

 

 

 

Guys Sue the Large Hadron Collider to Stop Total World Annihilation.

The suit was filed in Hawaii’s US District Court by Luis Sancho and a former nuclear safety officer by the name of Walter Wagner
An initial conference on the lawsuit was scheduled for June 16th but the judge in the Honolulu court he filed the case in had to explain that they don’t actually have jurisdiction over Switzerland. (Link)

Woman Sues Cell Phone Company After Her Husband Discovers Her Affair.

Gabriella Nagy a Toronto woman whose husband left her after discovering that she had been having an affair is putting the blame squarely where it belongs: With her cellphone service provider, Rogers Wireless
Rogers sent one “global” invoice to the home she shared with her husband, in which he discovered she had been making hours-long calls to one number; from there, he called the number, spoke to the “third party” with whom she had been having the affair, and walked out.
How much should the evil corporation, whose fault all of this is, cough up? $600,000, according to the woman behind the suit. (Link)

 

 

 

 

The Man Who Sued Somali pirates and George W. Bush.

 Despite being incarcerated at a federal prison in Kentucky, Jonathan Lee Riches has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. He was named as the person who has filed the most lawsuit ever. So what did he do next? He filed a lawsuit against the folks at Guinness!
In the injunction filed in Richland, Riches – who acknowledges he is receiving treatment for mental-health problems – said: “The Guinness Book of World Records have no right to publish my work, my legal masterpieces.”

Those include lawsuits against New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, former President George W. Bush, Somali pirates, Britney Spears and Martha Stewart, according to a Wikipedia page dedicated to Riches’ litigious exploits.
He’s also filed lawsuits against Plato, Nostradamus, James Hoffa, “Various Buddhist Monks,” the Lincoln Memorial, the Eiffel Tower and Three Mile Island. (Link)

 

 

 

 

No One Was Looking For Him, So Man Sues Classmates.com!

 When Classmates.com told user Anthony Michaels last Christmas Eve that his former school chums were trying to contact him, he pulled out his wallet and upgraded to the premium membership that would let him contact long-lost fifth-grade dodge-ball buddies and see if his secret crush from high school had looked him up online.
But once he’d parted with the $15, Michaels learned the shocking truth: No one he knew was trying to contact him at all. Classmates.com’s come-on was a lie, and he’d been scammed.

At least that’s what the San Diego resident alleges in a lawsuit filed against one of the net’s original social networking sites, whose banner ads featuring unflattering yearbook pictures remain a staple around the internet

The lawsuit asks the court to force the company to refund millions in subscription dollars and fine the company for deceptive advertising. (Link)

 

 

 

 

Tenor Sues Because He Was Booed.

 The celebrated tenor Roberto Alagna has given his first full explanation of why he stormed off the stage at La Scala after being booed during a performance.
Alagna claimed the hostile reaction from sections of the Milan crowd had made him physically ill and left him “broken-hearted”, prompting his swift departure.
“Have you any idea what it’s like to hear people shouting ‘Boo!’ when I was singing with all my heart and had sung well?” he said in a French newspaper interview.

Now he says he plans to sue the Milan opera house for “failing to help a person in danger”, claiming his blood sugar levels dropped perilously low because the audience boos had unnerved him. (Link)