44 Weirdest & Frivolous Lawsuits That Sound Too Ridiculous To Be True – Part 2

“The Goldwater Rule” forbids psychiatrists from offering opinions on somebody they haven’t interviewed. It was created in response to Barry Goldwater suing Fact Magazine for $75,000 after they published “1189 Psychiatrists Think Goldwater is Psychologically Unfit to be President” in 1964.

27. A man who was napping under a tree and had his skull crushed by a 16-pound pinecone sued various governmental agencies in 2015 for $5 million due to the lack of warning signs.

28. In 2012, a man donated his kidney in order to save his younger sister but his efforts ended in vain when a nurse mistakenly disposed of the donated organ. Despite the success of the kidney transplant 3 months later, the family sued the hospital for their negligence.

29. In 1981, Disneyland was sued by the family of a 9-year-old girl, claiming that a performer in a Winnie the Pooh suit had hit her in the face, causing brain damage. The performer defended himself in court by wearing the costume and demonstrating that he was unable to hit anyone.

30. A couple sued AC/DC in 1981 for $250,000 because their telephone number in the song “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” resulted in hundreds of prank calls.

In 2009, a man sued Pepsi after finding a dead mouse in his Mt. Dew. They responded by saying that if the mouse had been in the soda since its bottling, it would have dissolved.

32. In 1986, a woman who sought psychiatric help discovered memories of being in a satanic cult where she was forcibly raped, had to eat babies and as a consequence developed 120 different personalities to cope. The memories were later found to be false and the therapist was sued.

33. Ashley Madison, a dating website for married people who want to cheat on their spouses, was sued for $21 million by a former employee who says she damaged her wrists while typing up hundreds of fake profiles of women.

34. In 2011, a woman in France sued her husband and won $15,000 for not giving her enough sex during their marriage.

35. When a Holocaust denial group offered $50,000 dollars to “prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz,” a camp survivor, Mel Mermelstein sent them definitive proof. When they refused to pay, he sued them and he was given $90,000 when the court noted, “It is simply a fact.”

In 2013, the Federal District Court in San Francisco dismissed a lawsuit from Dairy Farmers to rename Almond Milk to “Nut Juice” for false advertising since “Nuts don’t Lactate.” It was rejected as “No reasonable consumer would mistake a product like soy milk or almond milk with dairy milk from a cow.”

37. Snake Oil was a real product sold by the Clark Stanley Company and in 1917 the U.S. Government had a bottle of it tested, but discovered that it contained inert ingredients and no actual oils extracted from snakes. The government sued and won damages of $20.

38. Billionaire Daniel Keith Ludwig froze his genetic material, believing that his estranged ex-wife’s daughter might challenge his will after his death. 40 years later, and after his death, she sued the estate and lost, because DNA analysis proved he wasn’t her father.

39. In 1971, a US man named Gerald Mayo filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Pennsylvania. He was suing Satan, for making him fall down. The judge rejected “Mayo v Satan”, pointing out that Mayo did not provide appropriate directions for the US Marshals to serve the summons to Satan.

40. There have been lawsuits against God. One suit, filed by State Senator Ernie Chambers in 2008, was eventually thrown out because the “Almighty was not properly served due to his unlisted home address.”

A man sued Blue Man Group claiming he suffered permanent damage to his esophagus when the performers shoved a camera down his throat. It was revealed that it was a camera trick and nothing entered the man’s mouth as the live footage was actually a prerecorded medical video.

42. Jonathan Lee Riches got the Guinness world record for having filed the highest number of lawsuits in the world. When he heard of this, he sued the Guinness Book of World Records.

43. In 1997, three men from Yemen sued NASA for trespassing on Mars. They claimed that they inherited the planet from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.

44. In 2016, Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa’s son was sued by his father's estate in a trademark dispute for using the Zappa name.