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Poetic Justice
In December 2002, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin delivered a c...
Carl Sagan: BHA
Software designers often bestow pet names upon their projects. When Apple progra...
Sounds of Silence (long)
On the Planets' debut album, Classical Graffiti, producer Mike Batt intro...
Eminem Lawsuit
"This week," Conan O'Brien announced in mid-August 2003, "a 70 year old grandmot...
Witchever?
William Mansfield once presided over a case of apparent witchcraft involving an ...
Prince Chegodieff
During the production of Rasputin and the Empress MGM, seeking to avoid a...
Bob Hope: Rats
During a show one evening Bob Hope, to the great amusement of his audience, rela...
White Lie?
In 1979, a city employee named Dan White went on a rampage and killed San Franci...
Tony Kaye: Alan Smithee Pro...
Tony Kaye, peeved by New Line Cinema's refusal to grant him more time to work on...
Billion Dollar Question
In order to circumvent laws barring businesses from owning property out of state...
Shoulder Level
The brillant barrister F. E. Smith once defended a bus driver against claims tha...
Phil Spector: The Screw
In 1961, legendary producer Phil Spector teamed up with Lester Sill to form Phil...
Doodoo Defense (long)
In June 1990, a conservative group led by Florida lawyer Jim Thompson persuaded ...
Casablanca Lawsuit (long)
When they learned that a new Marx Brothers film was to be entitled "A Night in C...
William Rockefeller: Advice...
The growth of the Rockefeller empire attracted considerable attention from the U...
Bill Gates: Bundle of Crap
At the turn of the Millennium, Bill Gates went head to head with the United Stat...
Mad Cow
One day at the turn of the millennium, Oprah Winfrey entered a courthouse in Ama...
Fox News Crawl
In October 2003, "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening was threatened with a defamati...
Aural Contraception?
In January 2001, famed psychic Uri Geller was informed that the solid gold, jewe...
The Burbs
Joseph Choate once opposed an attorney from Westchester County (a wealthy reside...
9/11 Lawsuit
Shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, a Manhattan landlor...
Mayhem
In March 2003, a Norwegian death metal fan named Per Kristian Hagen filed suit a...
Sick Building Syndrome
In the early 1970s, Vice President Spiro Agnew brokered a deal to headquarter a ...
Over the Top
In March 2003, Teamtalk CEO David Ware and the chief executive of MCS Digital fo...
Surgical Precision
One day, a witness in Judge Edward Ellenborough's courtroom was asked to identif...
Random Search
In August 2002, a female accountant was singled out for a random search before b...
Moon Rock
In 1972, a 1.142-gram rock from a lunar valley was returned on Apollo 17 and pre...
Landmark Ruling
In 1893, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller and his associa...
Robin, Leech
In May 2000, "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" host Robin Leach settled severa...
Kenny Rogers: O'Toole Incident
Kenny Rogers was once sued by a fan (named Kevin O'Toole), who alleged that a Fr...
eagles.jerk
In 1988, The Eagles filed a lawsuit against the Natinoal Foundation to Protect A...
Gore Vidal & the WGA
"In 1987, Gore Vidal sued the W.G.A. [the Writers Guild of America, the union of...
David Gilmour: Bollocks to You
After the release of The Final Cut in 1983, chief Pink Floyd songwriter R...
Porno Mission
In December 2000, a Texan prisoner sued Penthouse magazine for $500,000 f...
Led Zeppelin
In 1970, Robert Plant and his Led Zeppelin bandmates were scheduled to perform i...
Trailer Trash Barbie
In the early 1990s, a San Francisco artist named Paul Hansen began selling "Barb...
Sarah Michelle Gellar: Boog...
In 1981, four-year-old Sarah Michelle Gellar appeared in her first big role - in...
Shizzle my Nizzle
In 2003, Andrew Alcee filed suit against East West Records (a division of Warner...
John Phillips: Ego Pop
In 1967, John Phillips (of the Mamas and the Papas) helped with the organization...
Expert Witness
Alexander Borodin was once called upon to testify (as an expert witness) in a ca...
Bored Stiff?
On paper at least, the Microsoft trial (for antitrust violations) had all the ma...
P. T. Barnum & the Bearded ...
Legendary showman P. T. Barnum was once involved in a lawsuit over one of his ex...
EasyJet Getaway
In April 2003, Major Charles Ingram and his wife were found guilty of cheating t...
George Harrison: Conscious ...
George Harrison's song "My Sweet Lord" was so similar to Phil Spector's "He's So...
Life in Plastic
In 1997, the Danish bubblegum pop band Aqua released a song called "Barbie Girl"...
Corporate Fraud
In a presidential address to the nation in October 2002, George W. Bush called f...
Stone's Stones
During a publicity tour for Sliver in 1993, Harry Winston loaned Sharon S...
Cherry Sisters: Damned Souls
At the turn of the 20th Century, the Des Moines Register ran a scathing r...
Chicago Bull
Chicago Bulls star forward Dennis Rodman was once sued by a former Atlanta Hawks...
His Lardship Conrad Black (...
One day in 1999, Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien learned that press baron ...
Vanilla Ice: Singular Absur...
In the early '90s, Robert Van Winkle {aka Vanilla Ice} was accused of stealing t...
Theodore Roosevelt & The Ir...
In 1912, George Newett, the owner of a small town newspaper in Ishpeming, Michig...
Sharon Osbourne & MTV
During an interview in November 2002, Sharon Osbourne complained about the compl...
Google Lawsuit
In January 2004 Google, the world's most popular internet search engine, issued ...
Buddha, Inc.
In May 2004, Japanese priests stopped a candy company in the ancient capital of ...
Fred Durst: Microphone Lawsuit
During a tour in 2002, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst allegedly flew into a rag...
Jeffrey Archer: Libel Suit
"[In 1996] the press reported [Jeffrey Archer's] involvement with a prostitute, ...
David Sedaris: Book Signing
David Sedaris often did goofy things during book signings, just for fun. "For th...
World Wide Webber?
Andrew Lloyd Webber once ordered his chauffeur never to play the radio while dri...
Twiggs Defense
One night in the 1970s, the Allman Brothers arrived at a club in Buffalo, New Yo...
Oral Arguments
In early 2001, tennis star Boris Becker became embroiled in an unusual paternity...
Nice Move
In 1986, WWF wrestler Hulk Hogan used fellow guest Richard Belzer to demonstrate...
Law Suit?
In September 2002, Tennessee politician Robert Hodges appeared in court to fight...
Food Chain Barbie
In August 2001, U.S. district court judge Ronald Lew ruled that Forsythe could, ...
Mouth of Hell
Shortly after the funeral of New Mexico-based bar owner Ben Martinez in 2002, ni...
Freak Show?
A lawsuit was once filed against WXVO-FM in Knoxville, Tennessee, on behalf of a...
Jack Ass?
On January 14, 2000, eight movie studios, all members of the Motion Picture Asso...
Dwarfed by His Cunning?
One of F. Scott Fitzgerald's favorite stories concerned a certain Hollywood film...
Cotton Club
Francis Ford Coppola was embroiled in so much litigation during the production o...
Samuel Goldfish
Upon arriving in the United States, Samuel Goldwyn (whose original Polish name, ...
Damme Lucky
Jean-Claude Van Damme was once sued by martial arts legend Frank Dux, who allege...
Hartless Bastard
Following Lorenz Hart's death, his brother, the actor Teddy Hart (with whom he h...
Hung Jury
In 1944, Charlie Chaplin, famed for his penchant for deflowering young virgins, ...
Sophocles
At the age of eighty-nine, Sophocles was brought before a court of law by his so...
Royal Royalties
On her fifth birthday Princess Margaret entertained Peter Pan author Jame...
Fading Star
"A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,...
Qatari Coup
"In 1992 the old king, Sheikh Khalifa [of Qatar], who had been a fairly benevole...
Eminem Lawsuit: Rap Ruling
In October 2003, Judge Deborah Servitto delivered her verdict in a $1 million la...
Ivana Grump
In June 2000, Ivana Trump filed a lawsuit against an Italian TV station after it...
Al Franken: Lying Liars
Shortly after the publication of Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell...
My Sweet Lord
In 1971, George Harrison was sued for copyright infringement by Bright Tunes Mus...
Vin Diesel's Dog
In December 2003, xXx star Vin Diesel was sued by screenwriter Michael Ke...
Haldeman Method
Shortly after unveiling new CD copy protection technology in 2003, SunnComm thre...
British Airways: Dirty Tricks
In January 1993, Virgin Atlantic chief Richard Branson won a libel suit against ...
Bikram Choudhury: Bikram's ...
At the turn of the millennium, Bikram Choudhury - inventor of Bikram yoga and fo...
Al Sharpton & the IRS
After ruining the life of a New York prosecutor falsely accused of raping Tawana...
Bill Wyman & Bill Wyman
In November 2002, a music journalist named Bill Wyman received a cease-and-desis...
Hussein Shobokshi: Jeddah T...
In 2003, Hussein Shobokshi, a columnist for the Saudi Arabia's Okaz newsp...
Steven Spielberg: Shyster?
"Amblin' [Steven Spielberg's production company] was financed to the tune of $15...
Eric B. and Rakim: Or Not...
In January 2004, the hip-hop duo Eric B. and Rakim (Eric Barrier and William Gri...
Santiago Durango: Second Ca...
When he turned thirty and was "still sleeping on people's floors, having trouble...
Lou Pearlman: Boy Band Sven...
Lou Pearlman, the genius behind such boy bands as the Backstreet Boys, 'N Sync, ...
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey...
"The two actors [Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire], along with Amber Benson a...
Mark Wahlberg: Ironic Assault
In 2001, Mark Wahlberg was sued by a man he had allegedly beaten up outside New ...
Michael Bloomberg: Sexual H...
"During his mayoral campaign, [New York mayor] Michael Bloomberg had to deal wit...
Saddam Hussein: Complete Cr...
The French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur once published an article calli...
Queen Elizabeth II: What a ...
"I was in the Old Bailey," Dominic Dunne later recalled, "on the day of the disr...
Mark Twain: Pirate Justice
In 1876, a Canadian publisher (the Estes and Lauriat Publishing Company) pirated...
Ralph Lauren: Trademark Jac...
"Polo" founder Ralph Lauren once forced a magazine to change its name. The magaz...
Lenny Kravitz: Cacastrophic?
In October 2004, an insurance company (Amica Mutual) filed a lawsuit in Manhatta...
Joe Francis: Lawsuits Gone ...
In 2004, Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis filed a defamation lawsuit against ...
Gary Coleman: Diff'rent Str...
The actor Gary Coleman once made an unscheduled appearance on a reality televisi...
Wills Belted?
In 1962, Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills, having capped an incredible ...
Dumpster Diver
In May 2002, shortly after he reluctantly admitted to fathering a child with Eli...
Poop.com?
In the year 2000... Pets.com filed a lawsuit claiming that "Late Night with Cona...
Sly Glances?
In November 1999, Sylvester Stallone and his wife were sued by five former emplo...
Birthday Surprise
Irving Berlin, assuming that the song was in the public domain, used "Happy Birt...
Captain Morgan
Sir Henry Morgan was a sea captain who sailed the Spanish Main in search of plun...
'80s Icons
In April 2002, Madonna wrote a note to former Culture Club frontman Boy George d...
Dick Jagger & The Verve: Bi...
Shortly after releasing Urban Hymns in 1997, Richard Ashcroft and the Ver...
Wayne Newton & Shenandoah S...
In 1994, Wayne Newton sued Gary Snadon, the owner of the Shenandoah South theate...
Zeta-Jones: Alpha Bitch
In 2002, Catherine Zeta-Jones learned that a small French spa had taken a quote ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Cour...
In January 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger filed suit against the owner of a small g...
Michael Bolton: Bolton Solu...
Michael Bolton once lost a plagiarism suit to the Isley Brothers. Bolton promptl...
Bruce Willis: Tabloid Rumor
In 1997, amid rumors of infidelity, Bruce and Demi accused a tabloid of libel fo...
Scott Stapp: Broken Creed
During a Chicago concert in December 2002, Creed frontman Scott Stapp shocked fa...
Mumbet
One day judge Theodore Sedgwick's black servant Mumbet - who had reared the chil...
Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway was once sued by a 70-year-old Cuban fisherman named Miguel Ram...
Lincoln, Lawyer
One day while he was still practicing law, Abraham Lincoln was visited by a pros...
Brash Lawyer
As a young lawyer, F. E. Smith once defended a tram company in a case involving ...
Surgeon to the Stars
"In Hollywood, California, Dr. Steven Hoefflin, plastic surgeon to the stars, we...
Fox News vs CNN
In 1996, Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch launched the Fox News network and introduced Rog...
Don't Know Diddley
Among Nike's many memorable campaigns was a series of "You don't know Diddley" s...
Woody Allen Look-Alike
"Woody Allen was seen as a villain when he won $425,000 in 1986 in a lawsuit aga...
Slavery & the Bill of Rights
In 1781, a black woman who had been a slave in Great Barrington, Massachusetts f...
Fool Defense
"At times Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett liked to shock the court, so that when the ju...
Mosaic
In 1993, while working on a fuckingcomputer project as a student at the Universi...
Confidence Man
"In one of his cases things were going badly for Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, and e...
Airport Jeopardy!
While checking in at an airport one day, "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek slipped an...
Tobacco Suits
Peter Angelos was among the lawyers who sued the tobacco industry on behalf of t...
Bjork
While Bjork was pregnant with her son Sindri, she shaved her eyebrows, bared her...
George Jacas
In July 2001, George Lucas, fiercely protective of his movies, filed suit agains...
Who You Gonna Call?
When Huey Lewis first heard the opening hook - "Who you gonna call?" - from Ray ...
John Fogerty v. Saul Zaentz
"More than a decade of bad blood between former Creedence Clearwater Revival (CC...
Victoria Beckham: Not so Posh
"Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, has decided to allow British soccer team the ...
James B. Rogers: American L...
American Pie II director James B. Rogers (who served as first assistant d...
Chicago Transit Authority
After releasing their first album as "Chicago Transit Authority," Peter Cetera a...
Paul Petersen: Grasping at ...
In 1995, Jeff Gillooly (whose ex-wife, Tonya Harding, famously served seven mont...
Clarence Darrow: Agnostic
In 1925, the great lawyer Clarence Darrow defended John T. Scopes, who was being...
SDI
In the mid 1980s, filmmaker George Lucas filed suit against President Ronald Rea...
Duran Duran Fans
In August 2000, Simon Le Bon and his Duran Duran bandmates were sued by a 57-yea...
My Sweet Lord
While recording his album 2001 (1999), rapper Dr. Dre consulted a musicol...
Chuck Berry & the Beach Boys
So fond of Chuck Berry were Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys that for one of thei...
Sally Jessy Raphael: Bank R...
In November 2002, Sally Jessy Raphael filed suit against the National Enquirer a...
Zsa Zsa Gabor: Car Crash
In November 2002, Zsa Zsa Gabor sued her hairdresser after the man lost control ...
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