26Kidney Lawsuit
After a doctor named Richard Barista was slapped with divorce papers from his wife, he sued her for the return of the kidney he gave her 8 years ago. He requested her to pay $1.5 million for the organ he donated and insisted his cash-for-kidney claim was a direct result of his wife’s behavior.
27. In 2010, a Florida jail forced some inmates to watch The Polar Express on repeat. One inmate filed a lawsuit claiming that “I hear those little kids screaming through my brain.”
28. A survivor of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris sued French media after giving away his location, on live TV, during the shooting.
29. In 2015, an American man named Benjamin Careathers sued RedBull for ‘false advertising’ claiming that after 10 years of consuming the product, he grew no wings, or enhanced physical or intellectual performance.
30. In 1971, one Iowa farmer booby-trapped his farmhouse which resulted in a burglar’s legs being shot with a shotgun. The burglar sued him and won. Later, when asked if he would do anything different, the man stated: “I’d have aimed that gun a few feet higher.”
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31Ford Lawsuit
In 1919, Ford wanted to use extra profits to raise employee wages and employ more people. The Dodge Brothers sued Henry Ford in 1919 on the grounds that a company should act in the interests of its shareholders and not for the good of society, its customers or its employees and they won. This set the precedent for current US corporate law.
32. Disney once sued three daycare centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings), who had to remove them. Universal, in turn, let the centers use Scooby-Doo, Flintstones & their other Hanna-Barbera characters.
33. After a composer released a song that was just 60 seconds of silence, he was sued by the estate of a man who had released a similar track, called 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence. His defense was, “I have been able to say in one minute what he could only say in four minutes and 33 seconds.”
34. In 1990, Mr. Rogers sued the KKK for impersonating his voice in prerecorded messages. These messages said, “AIDS was divine retribution” and included radio skits simulating lynchings of black children on a playground. The tapes were circulated among elementary and middle school children.
35. In 1997, a California girl sued the Boy Scouts of America after they wouldn’t let her join because of her gender. She lost.
