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Posts Tagged ‘lawsuits’

GOD

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Wacky Nebraska-state Senator Ernie Chambers sued God for being a terrorist, and the court in Omaha has already received two responses from two different Gods making the usual Cheney-esque claims of immunity from prosecution. [My Fox]


PRIVACY

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

Your telephone company wants the government to forbid you from suing them for cooperating with said government in spying on you. All the lobbyists are Bush family connected, except the ones who are Democrats. But have you seen those new Wes Anderson AT&T ads? [Newsweek]


STEPHEN COLBERT

Radio Person Suing TV Star For Stealing Klingon Joke

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007


This is Cenk Uygur from ‘The Young Turks,’ Air America’s morning show. He is suing Stephen Colbert for $65 million, just like the pants guy, for stealing a joke about Klingons. You can see both jokes in the clip. Of course, we’re bloggers, so we steal all of our material, but apparently standards are different for basic cable and niche radio people. Still, you can sue for a “stolen” joke? Milton Berle is shaking in his boots while rolling in his grave. After the jump, a fun assignment! MORE »


RELIGION

Nebraska State Senator Sues Eric Clapton

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

God said to Abraham, kill me a son... - WonketteIn order to make the point that there is no such thing as a “frivolous” lawsuit, Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers has filed the most fivolous lawsuit ever, suing God himself. Chambers “seeks a permanent injunction ordering God to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.” While his confused political point is pretty much impossible to understand, Chambers’ suit itself is hilarious. Seriously, look at the details from the filing, it’s like a Randy Newman song come to life: MORE »


JESSICA CUTLER

Law School Textbook Rips Off Two Blogger Roman a Clefs

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

what a crazy pair - WonketteA law student sent us this example of the thinnest veiling we’ve ever seen, from a Torts textbook (specifically Tort Law: Cases, Perspectives and Problems. 4th Edition. Galligan, Haddon, McClellan et al if you’re interested). It’s the story of “Jessica Butler,” her filthy sex with an aide to “Senator Foghorn,” and her salacious blog that detailed the whole seedy affair. MORE »


RED CROSS

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Johnson & Johnson (founded 1886) sues the Red Cross (founded 1881) for appropriating their red cross trademark. [CNN]


ACLU

TSA Detains Man for Anti-American T-Shirt

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

It says Did you know that wearing a t-shirt with arabic writing to an airport is the equivalent of a “”person wearing a t-shirt at a bank stating, ‘I am a robber’”? No? Then you clearly don’t work with the TSA, who barred Reed Jarrar over there from boarding his flight at JFK because his shirt had terrifying non-Roman characters on it. MORE »


CONGRESS

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Remember that thing from the other day when all the Republicans walked out of the House because the Dems apparently kinda sorta reversed a vote they lost? Now some guy is suing Nancy Pelosi, apparently. Anyway, here’s his website. He’s a doctor, just like Bill Frist! He has standing to sue Nancy because he dislikes her very, very much, and he is a doctor. [Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D.]


VALERIE PLAME

CIA Sued for Being a Dick

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Valerie “Plame” Wilson worked for the CIA for exactly “20 years, 7 days,” with “six years, one month and 29 days of overseas service,” according to the CIA via the Congressional Record. MORE »


GEORGE W. BUSH

Nagin Lunches With Bush, Promptly Sues Federal Government

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

CIA

Kitty Has a Valentine For George Tenet

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

An operative writes: MORE »