FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT: Linda Okun
PHONE: (626) 824-8927
January 26, 2005
Monthly feature will highlight the most outrageous
lawsuits
being filed in our judicial system
(Los Angeles) In an attempt to better inform
the public of how out of control our judicial system has become,
Los Angeles Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse (CALA) will be highlighting
the most outrageous lawsuits being filed across the nation in
its “Loony Lawsuit of the Month.”
The program will feature a new lawsuit each month
and continue the tradition set with past Loony Lawsuit classics,
such as:
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The woman from Grand Haven, Michigan who filed a lawsuit
for more than $25,000 after she was injured by a firecracker
she took from a condominium that she had cleaned. While
dining later with friends at a restaurant, the woman lit
the firecracker claiming that she mistakenly thought it
was a decorative candle.
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The man who tripped and fell over decorative rocks along
a driveway where the basketball net was located during a
pickup basketball game. He then sued the homeowner, even
thought his friend had pointed out the rocks to him and
they were in plain view.
“Our courts and our government have been
taken over by personal injury lawyers and people who would rather
sue than take responsibility for their own actions,” stated
Linda Okun, Executive Director. “Our civil justice system
is supposed to provide justice for all. Instead it has become
a playground for those who would use the system to get rich at
public expense, while making a mockery of American justice. It’s
loony!”
As a prelude of Loony Lawsuits to come, just
look at the case of one Cleveland man, who decided to blame NBC
for his squeamish stomach.
As widely reported by the Associate Press on
January 7th 2005, this person has sued NBC for $2.5 million, saying
he could not stomach what he saw. Austin Aitken claims that NBC’s
reality show Fear Factor was so disgusting that it made him nauseas
and dizzy causing him injury when he hit his head.
Aitken, a 44 year old paralegal, filed a handwritten
four-page lawsuit in federal court. He told reporters the show
caused his blood pressure to rise so high that he became dizzy
and light-headed, and when he ran away to his room, he bumped
his head into the doorway.
For more information on these issues, please contact Los Angeles
CALA at (626) 824-8927 or maryann@maryannmaloney.com
.
Linda Okun is the Executive Director of Citizens
against Lawsuit Abuse in Los Angeles, a nonprofit, grassroots
public education organization. Write to her c/o CALA at P.O. Box
262 - Glendora, CA 91740, or via email at maryann@maryannmaloney.com.
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CALA is a nonprofit, grass roots, public education
organization dedicated to serving as a watchdog over the legal
system and those who would seek to abuse it for undeserved gain.
More than 9,000 citizens and taxpayers are Los Angeles CALA supporters.
