lawsuits

Your Ex Will Violate Your Facebook and You'll Help Him Do It

Ryan Tate · 11/07/11 03:27PM

The problem with amassing huge troves of digital information is that, sooner or later, someone will try and nab one of them. Like the twisted judge in Connecticut who ordered divorcing spouses to swap Facebook and online dating passwords, and the other judges following in his footsteps.

Prisoner Given Aspirin to Treat Tumors Still Has Tumors, Surprisingly

Lauri Apple · 11/04/11 06:59AM

Paul Parisi, a prisoner at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, suffers from fibroneuroma—a disease that causes benign tumors to form on his nerve cells. When Parisi's illness started causing him severe pains, he asked his (taxpayer-subsidized) prison doctors to treat him. So they gave him some (free) aspirin and ibuprofen, the end.

Facebook Nabs Its Foe from Ireland

Ryan Tate · 11/03/11 06:49PM

Facebook does not forgive, and Facebook does not forget, at least not when it comes to Paul Ceglia, the upstate New York entrepreneur who tried to win control of the social network in court. Having run off to Ireland in the wake of evidence he may have fabricated evidence, Ceglia has been told to return. You can run, but you cannot hide, from the great social network in the sky.

Justin Bieber's 30-Second First Time Results in Pregnancy, Allegedly

Max Read · 11/01/11 09:13PM

Justin Bieber just took another step on the long path to teen pop-star irrelevancy: the paternity lawsuit! And it's a juicy one, too—the woman filing suit claims she took Bieber's virginity, in a bathroom backstage, and gave birth to a baby boy three months ago.

Real World Cast Member Sues Co-Stars For Raping Her with a Toothbrush

Seth Abramovitch · 10/27/11 09:28PM

Tonya Cooley (left), who appeared on The Real World: Chicago and Real World/Road Rules Challenge, is suing MTV, Bunim/Murray Productions, and co-stars Kenny Santucci (right) and Evan Starkman (center), saying the men sexually assaulted her with a toothbrush while she lay unconscious, TMZ reports.

NBC Announces: 'Rock Center' to Be Completely Derivative

Hamilton Nolan · 10/27/11 02:06PM

In your misty Thursday media column: NBC's newsmagazine will be like every other newsmagazine show, a lawsuit against HuffPo goes forward, the WaPo's chairman leaves, the NYDN screws up, and a press release newswire war.

Dude: Cop Slapped My Dog

Hamilton Nolan · 10/24/11 08:31AM

What would cause a heartless jack-booted armed thug cop to heartlessly slap a tiny little bitty dog? (What!) A wee little Pomeranian mix, slapped out of a third story window? (No!) A tiny sweet little pet trying to protect his precious family, only to be heartlessly—heartlessly—slapped, by a cop, out of a window, falling three stories, its tiny body twisting as it plummeted to the hard, heartless ground below? (I never!) Outrageous!

Lawyer Behind Stupid Drive Lawsuit Explains How the Movie is Anti-Semitic

Seth Abramovitch · 10/20/11 07:50PM

The dumb lawsuit filed by Michigan resident Sarah Deming against the distributors of Drive because it wasn't Vin Diesel-y enough also claimed that the film was anti-Semitic. Specifically, the suit stated that Drive contained "extreme gratuitous defamatory dehumanizing racism directed against members of the Jewish faith, and thereby promoted criminal violence against members of the Jewish faith." If that assertion leaves you scratching your skullcaps, you aren't alone. Luckily, the legal mastermind behind the suit has been quite vocal about what he meant by that language — in the comments section of a movie blog.

Keeping Track of All the Facebook Anti-Tracking Lawsuits

Lauri Apple · 10/17/11 09:07AM

Facebook's tracking scandal has mushroomed into a niche industry of sorts for privacy lawyers. The company now faces at least nine suits filed by people who oppose the company's use of cookie technology that tracks users' online activity even after they've logged out of their accounts. Expect a few more suits to follow.

Woman Attacked by Bloodthirsty Sex Toy Suing Company

Lauri Apple · 10/13/11 07:31AM

What was supposed to be an enjoyable sexual experience for a California woman and her boyfriend turned into a bloody, painful horror show that involved the untimely death of several innocent maxi pads and required a trip to the hospital. The alleged source of all this violence and anguish: a vengeful vibrator.

Spanish Politician Sues FBI For Making Him Into Osama bin Laden

Adrian Chen · 10/12/11 01:08PM

Last year, the FBI admitted to using large portions of a random Spanish politician's campaign photograph for an age-progressed mockup of Osama bin Laden, which happened to look a lot like the random Spanish politician. Now he's suing.