An extraordinary torts case is now before the Illinois Supreme Court where a women is continuing a fight to hold the parents of a former lover liable for their failure to tell her that their son had AIDS. A jury found the parents, Elizabeth and Kirkpatrick Dilling liable for $2 million. Continue reading “Illinois: Women Sues Parents of HIV-Positive Fiance for Failing to Disclose Son’s Condition”
Category: Torts
Luciano Pavarotti’s death appears to have left a perfectly operatic scene of an irate widow and accusations of false friends bent on her destruction. Pavarotti’s widow, Nicoletta Mantovanis, is suing two friends of the singer for defamation based on their claims about the state of her marriage with the star. Continue reading “Widow of Luciano Pavarotti Sues Friends: Seeking $44 Million for Defamation”
In what must count somewhere toward credit, law students have sued American Justice School of Law in Paducah, Ky, for $120 million in a class action lawsuit. Continue reading “Law Students Sue Law School for Racketeering and Fraud”
Three people have been killed thus far in Wisconsin’s deer season — after only nine days. Continue reading “Buck Fever: Three Killed in First Nine Days of Deer Season in Wisconsin”
Richard Roberts has resigned as president of Oral Roberts University and the Board of Regents officially began a search for a new president. It is the school’s survival not its leadership that is now in question. Continue reading “Oral Roberts President Resigns: Is an Indictment Next?”
In yet another taser abuse video, a Utah officer is shown telling a man to turn around and then tasering him in the back after the driver refused to sign a ticket — while the man’s pregnant wife screams from inside the car. Continue reading “Shocking Video of Man Being Tasered in Back for Refusing to Sign Ticket in Utah”
When Megan Meier logged on to MySpace a little over a year ago, she was seeking a new start with new friends. She’d had some hard times: She considered herself overweight, had been bullied in school and had low self-esteem. Continue reading “How To Punish A Cyber Bully”
Fred Blackmon must decide whether he will now appeal a judge’s ruling that he sexually assaulted his daughter and must pay $8 million. Continue reading “Fred Blackmon Must Decide Whether to Appeal or Pay Daughter $8 Million for Sexual Assault”
The use of a fake MySpace identity by adult neighbors to trick and then crush a young girl (who later committed suicide) has outraged Americans. One possible charge would involve a controversial new law barring internet abuse — a law that is ripe for challenge. Continue reading “Megan Meier Case: A Test Case for the Crime of Internet Annoyance?”
In another hunting tragedy, a grandfather shot his own grandson at the start of deer season. It is one of many such “buck fever” cases. Continue reading “Grandfather Shoots Grandson in Latest Buck Fever Case”
In the follow-up to the disturbing story of Megan Meier, Fox has now covered the story and like the local paper has decided not to disclose the identity of the woman who faked the identity of a cute boy named Josh to develop a friendship with her — only to crush her in a series of messages. Continue reading “Fox and CNN Withhold Identity of Woman Accused of Faking MySpace Identity and Attacking Girl Who Later Committed Suicide”
President Bush’s nominee for the Fourth Circuit is in trouble. E. Duncan Getchell, Jr. is being sued for defamation stemming from an appeal dismissed for malpractice. Continue reading “Bush Nominee for the Fourth Circuit — Duncan Getchell, Jr. — Sued for Defamation”
Two cases have raised questions about the right of self-defense of a homeowner — where the intruders in both cases were killed. Continue reading “Two Cases Raise Questions of Self-Defense by Homeowners”
Jim Stevenson is facing two years in prison for shooting a cat that he said was stalking an endangered bird in a case that contains a fascinating question of what constitutes a “pet.” Continue reading “Murderous Ornithologist or Just Protective Bird-Lover? Texas Man on Trial for Shooting Cat to Save Bird”
In an interesting torts case, the judge ruled that prominent businessman Fred Blackmon of Montgomery Alabama must pay his daughter $8 million dollars for sexual abuses in her childhood. Continue reading “Father Told to Pay Millions to Daughter Who Was Allegedly Raped”