Scam Artist-Type Law Suits Clog Court System

--Seemingly Endless parade of frivolous Suits Continue Unabated

Never go to bed angry; stay awake and plot your revenge.

This is a mindset many trial lawyers continuously promote among clients in their quest to engender more law suits. Scam artist stuff? Frivolous law suits? you ask. The court system is currently drowning in such activity.

Take a gander at some of these examples and decide for yourself the merits:

> New York orthopedic surgeon sues athletic footwear giant, Nike, for $10,000,000. Claim is shoelace on right sneaker hooked on back tab of left sneaker, causing the doctor to fall resulting in a wrist injury that threatens her career as a surgeon. Like the Nike spokesman routinely noted, "Sometimes people don't tie their shoes properly." Much like being a politician: To succeed, it's often necessary to rise above your principles. Scam artists' tactics?

> Class action law suit is filed against the manufacturer of breakfast cereal, Cheerios, over a food additive, with no evidence that it has ever caused any injury to any consumer. The consumers--plaintiffs in the law suit--receive a free box of cereal. The lawyers are paid $2,000,000. When asked by an aggressive class-action lawyer to jump as the old saw goes, many businesses will merely say, "How high?"

> Atlanta Journal-Constitution music writer is notified of legal action against him for having the temerity to use his own name, which is the same name as former Rolling Stones bassist, Bill Wyman. An attorney sends the journalist a letter stating, "I must ask that you immediately cease and desist from authorizing use of our client's name." Irony is that the real name of the Rolling Stones bassist is not even Bill Wyman--this is but a stage name--but William Perks (a far cry). Sued for using your own name? If a rabbit's foot is so lucky, what does that say about the luck of the rabbit?

> New York woman is awarded $14,100,000 after she is hit by a subway train. When it becomes known that she had been trying to commit suicide and had been patiently lying on the tracks, waiting for the train, the award was cut 30%. She had to settle for a paltry $9,900,000 for her injuries. Perhaps she was practicing Clarke's Second Law: The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

> A California attorney sues GTE Directories for $100,000 after the publisher mistakenly lists her name and phone number under the heading, "Reptiles." It is claimed she is subject to many jokes and hissing sounds when she walks by groups of associates.

> A California nudist, whose feet were burned while he was walking on a pit of red hot coals, files a lawsuit against the event organizers for assuring him that the fire walk would not burn his feet, would be entirely safe. It's said gullibility stretches far--like a rubber band. But, how far is far?

> In still another suit against deep-pockets fast food giant, McDonald's, a couple sues over damaged teeth suffered by the husband--from a bagel. Wife's "lost care, comfort, consortium, and society of her husband" is also cited as cause for deep, mental suffering. (Could this have been a 30-day old bagel?)

Often the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones who do.
So, what better moral to a story than to say, simply, stay out of the line of fire. Don't get caught in the insanity of a fabricated lawsuit spun out of whole cloth which houses nothing more than a warped idea, a scam artist lawyer, and a greedy plaintiff.