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Legal funny things of the USA

1 . January, 2000. Katlin Robertson, Austin, Texas.
Kotlin Island Robertson received 780 000 dollars of compensation for the broken anklebone in furniture store. The woman was traumatized as a result of collision with the child running around. The owner of shop was much puzzled with the passed decision, considering that fact that the child was the son of Mrs. Robertson. Than in this case the owner of shop unclear was guilty.

2 . June 1998. 19-year-old Karl Truman from Los Angeles seized 74 000 dollars plus compensation for treatment when his neighbor moved to it a hand the car. Karl Truman simply didn't notice that in the car someone drove when he tried to steal from the neighbor caps from wheels. The driver probably also didn't notice the thief and simply began movement on the car.

3 . October, 1998. Terence Dixon, from Bristol, Pennsylvania, left the house which it only robbed. There was it through garage. It couldn't open an automatic garage door as it was spoiled. It as couldn't enter back the house as the door from the house in garage behind it slammed. It survived on dry dog food and Pepsi packing. It filed a lawsuit against the owner of the house, having declared that the situation caused it an undeserved psychological trauma. The thief received compensation of 500 000 dollars.

4 . October 1999. Gerry Williams, from Littl Rock, Arkansas, seized 14 500 dollars and medical expenses, being bitten for a neighbour's dog of breed "Beagle". The dog sat on a chain at a fence in the neighbour's yard. Mr. Williams as was at himself behind a fence. The sum was less requested as the court considered that the dog could be provoked by Williams who shot at this time at it from the wind gun.

5 . December 1997. In Philadelphia Ember Carson from Lancaster was compelled to pay restaurant, Pennsylvania, 113 500 dollars after it slipped on the poured drink and broke to itself a tailbone. Drink appeared on a floor because Ms. Carson threw them in the ex-boyfriend in 30 seconds prior to incident, as a result of the occurred scandal.

6 . December 1997. Kara Walton from Kleymont, Delaware, carried the case against the owner of night club when she dropped out of a window of the bathroom and beat out to itself two foreteeth. It occurred when Ms. Walton tried to escape through a bathroom window not to pay 3,5 dollars which it owed club. It awarded 12 000 dollars and reimbursement for the dentist.

7 . 2005. In Ohio the man who has appealed to court with the requirement to cancel the resolution on the death, remained legally "dead".
The judge of the district Hancock Allan Davies who has declared Donald Eugene Miller Jr. dead in 1994 after those eight years was considered as missing person, declared that the limitation period for cancellation of this decision expired long ago.
"It is obvious that the person who is present at a hall vessels, is in good health — the judge declared. — However from the point of view of the law you are dead".
He noted that according to staff laws the resolution on death can be cancelled only within three years after its acceptance.
According to Donald Miller, he ran away from the house 27 years ago because many saws and lost work. The man returned to Ohio in 2005 and learned from parents about "death". Dead it declared according to the address of his former spouse Robin Miller.
In eight years of the absence it didn't pay the alimony, and thus she was going to achieve the right for a social benefit for children. It isn't reported, whether she knew that her husband all this time was live.

8. In 1999 parents of 27-year-old Daniel Dyuks who rolled in the pool with a killer whale in an oceanarium in Orlando, filed a lawsuit against an institution, demanding some million dollars that a dangerous predator those advertized as lovely harmless creature.

9. The American who in 1997 replaced the name with Jack Ass filed a lawsuit against MTV, having declared that in the show Jackass which goes on the channel, his name is illegally used.

10. In 1995 Anna Ayala filed a lawsuit against Wendy's snackbar in San Jose (California), having declared that in sauce she found the cut-off finger. During the investigation it became clear that the woman enclosed a finger. It was given nine years of prison.

11. In 2000 the surfer from California filed a lawsuit against the colleague that that "stole from it a wave". Case refused to open, having proved it that it is impossible to estimate "pain and sufferings", delivered by contemplation of how someone caught the wave intending for you.

12. In 1995 the woman who drank alcohol at a corporate party too much and broke, sowing after that for a wheel, successfully filed a lawsuit against the employer that he allowed it to drive the car. 52-year-old Linda Hunt from Canadian Ontario seized more than 300 000 dollars at "Sutton Group Realty Ltd. ", having declared that the boss shouldn't allow it have to gone home.

13. In 2006 the black American Allen Hekard filed a lawsuit against the basketball player Michael Jordan and the founder of the Nike company Phil Knight, having demanded 832 million dollars of moral compensation. Hekard declared that external similarity with the advertized Jordan delivers it "pain and sufferings". Some months later Hekard refused the claim.

14. In 1991 the fan of beer from the USA Richard Overton filed a lawsuit against the brewing giant of "Anheuser-Busch", demanding 10 000 dollars. The claimant declared that how many he saws of their Bud beer, young young men and girls in bikinis which showed in advertizing, didn't appear. He accused the company of doubtful advertizing and non-performance of promises. From the second attempt Overton received the money.

15. One of invited to the telecast Tonight Show on NBC of the audience filed a lawsuit against the canal because one of free t-shirts which shot at public by means of a pneumatic gun, got to it to an eye.

16. In 1999 the Canadian tourist filed a lawsuit against a network of coffee houses of "Starbucks", having declared that faulty sitting in a toilet of one of institutions in New York led to an injury of his penis. When Edward Skvarek reached for toilet paper, sitting was displaced, having clamped his penis between sitting and a toilet bowl. Пострадавшмй 1 million dollars for "permanent damage" demanded a penis, and his wife Sherry - 500 thousand dollars that lost sex.

17. The American unsuccessfully tried to seize at city authorities of San Diego 5,4 million dollars for "an emotional trauma" which he had at Elton John and Billy Joel's concert. But not because of music, and because of contemplation of women who used urinals in a man's toilet. Bob Glazer reported that his right for personal secret was violated by these women who came to a man's toilet because of too long turns in the female.

18. The old woman by the name of Stella Libek received that poured out on itself a glass of hot coffee from MacDonalds of 2,9 million dollars. You see her didn't warn that hot coffee can be hazardous to health! The judge who decided to pay to Stella compensation, became history of judicial system of the USA as the author of the most idiotic judicial verdict. And in honor of Stella Libek the award which to 2012 was handed over for the silliest judgments in North America was called.

19. Long time of senator of the State of Nebraska and the civil activist Ernie Chambers, was in headings of newspapers when it filed a lawsuit against God for "widespread death, destructions and intimidation of millions and million inhabitants of Earth. " Chambers, the self-proclaimed defender poor, told that it submitted the claim in attempt to show how it is important that all citizens could file a lawsuit any complaint and that doors of vessels were open for any. And here to court had no time for laughter. The claim eventually rejected because God has no address and, therefore, can't receive the agenda.

20. In 2000 Merv Grazhinsky, the inhabitant of the State of Oklahoma, received 1,75 million dollars and a new motor van thanks to the judgment. This gentleman got a mobile house (the car equipped for housing) and decided to sweep on it. It came out to the route, established cruise control on the speed of 115 km/h and … went to cook for itself coffee and sandwiches. The van which has remained without management, naturally, somewhere crashed and turned over, however Merv didn't suffer – and right there submitted the claim against the manufacturing company of vans. In Grazhinsky statement it was specified that the maintenance instruction doesn't forbid to throw a wheel during movement. The manufacturer of vans had to enter this rule in the instruction not to have legal proceedings in the future with other similar drivers.

21. Andrew Vaktor was fined $150 because listened to too loud rap music in the car. However the judge suggested to lower a penalty to $35 if the defendant spends 20 hours of the life, listening to classical music – Bach, Beethoven and Chopin. The judge of municipal court of the district of Champaign Susan Fornof-Lippenkot wished that Vaktor felt what it – to listen to music which isn't pleasant.

22. In 2004 the inhabitant of the town of Fond-du-Lak that in the American state of Wisconsin, filed a lawsuit against one of TV companies. Timothy Dyumushel accused her that because of television his wife became thick, and children - lazy and able only to change channels. The American declared: "I believe that daily I drink and I smoke, and my wife suffers excess weight because within the last four years we daily watched TV". In America more than one million lawyers, naturally at that time was, there was couple from them who were engaged in this unusual business. However business didn't reach the Supreme Court.

23. In May, 2004 in Connecticut hearing unusual took place as it appeared affairs. A certain Hester Spesialski was accused that killed Neil Esosito. Charge claimed that the man threw out from the car at which wheel there was Hester while the vehicle lost control and broke. In the justification the respondent claimed that at a wheel couldn't be as was at the time of accident on a passenger chair, having oral sex with Esposito who drove the car. Though the man also was found with the lowered trousers, charge considered that he simply could, being on passenger sitting, to show in a window the buttocks or even to urinate. Anyway, but as a result the jury found Spesialski not guilty.

24. In 2006 the Supreme Court of Nevada had to confirm legality of one of the resolutions adopted once in Las Vegas. There it is forbidden to strippers to caress the clients during execution of private dance by them on a lap. The claim said that the local law is formulated quite vaguely that it could be put into practice. Dispute was caused by the following not clear phrase: "none of assistants or rendering services have no right to caress or iron any of clients with intention to cause in it sexual excitement". Lawyers with meticulousness peculiar to them found out, whether is the friction of buttocks of the dancer about knees of the man caress or it only a stroking. Whether the law in case the breast of the girl touches a face of the client is broken? As a result the court left the resolution in former force. The verdict said that observers of the law will be able to define caress or strokings, proceeding from personal experience.

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