Download - Most shocking court cases in history
Well, a lady in California has now sued Pepsico, who
makes Cap’n Crunch, for misleading her in believing that the
cereal had actual fruit in it. For years she ate the cereal
thinking she was getting a great deal of nutritional value and
real fruit from it
You can imagine her fury when she found out she was
eating flavored jagged sugar. Surprisingly the U.S. District
Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed the
lawsuit
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Kenny Waters was considered guilty of
murder, until he was finally proven innocent by
his little sister. He was thought to have stabbed a
woman by the name of Katherina Reitz Brow
more than 30 times in order to steal her jewelry
and cash on the morning of May 21 1980. He
received a life sentence. This prompted his sister
to sentence herself to proving his innocence.
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She put herself through college and law school in order to help
with her brother’s case. In 2001, she teamed up with the Innocence
Project; an initiative designed to exonerate those who have been
wrongfully convicted. They found DNA evidence which conclusively
proved that Waters could not have committed the murder
He was exonerated in May of 2001; 18 years after his conviction.
Sadly, he passed away only six months after his release. The real
perpetrator has not been found yet
A man was trying to get
compensation because his ISP failed to
provide connectivity between
December 2008 and February 2009, so
he sued the company.
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The case went to court and the court ruled that because access to
Internet was a vital component of people’s lives and economic
activity, he was entitled to as much as $67 per day the he did not have
access.
Interestingly, he also tried to get compensation for not having fax
access, but they denied it, because they said faxes are only a faster way
to send text and photos, which you can do by mail
Along with Napster, LimeWire was one
of the most popular applications that people
used to download mp3s illegally. At its peak,
LimeWire had 4 million daily users. It used a
similar Peer-to-Peer technology as Napster
that allowed people to share files, mostly
MP3s of popular songs. Thirteen major
recording companies sued LimeWire LLC
for fostering copyright infringement.
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As the case progressed, the music studios argued that LimeWire was
liable for every time a file was illegally downloaded through their system.
Their estimate was that there had been 500 million illegal downloads,
which would come out to a penalty of $75 trillion ($75.000.000.000.000!)
Ultimately the court decided that number was ridiculous and said that
the company was liable only once per song, and the damages would
amount somewhere between $7.5m to $1.5b. The parties eventually
settled for $105 million
Usually, the band Creed is beloved
amongst their fans. Like any band, they
have their share of loyal followers.
However, fans were not happy after one
fateful Creed concert. In December 2002,
in the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Creed
gave a notoriously bad performance.
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After the show, the Internet was flooded with complaints over the
disappointing concert, and the band issued a formal apology. That wasn't
the end of it though. The following spring the band was hit with a class-
action lawsuit on account of the fans.
The lawsuit was filed by four fans that claimed that the lead singer,
Scott Stapp, was "too intoxicated and/or medicated" to remember the
lyrics to the band's songs. With parking, service charges and ticket prices,
the lawsuit claimed that the 15,000 fans were owed $2 million.
A while ago we covered the strange
story of Chinese man Jian Feng. When his
wife gave birth to what he called an
extremely ugly baby, he sued his wife,
accusing her of infidelity. The paternity
test showed that the baby was indeed his.
This is when it gets ridiculous.
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The wife confessed that she had undergone about $100,000 worth of
cosmetic surgery in South Korea. Feng immediately sued his ex-wife for
marrying him under false pretenses. Surely a ridiculous lawsuit, right?
Well, he won.
The ex-wife now has to pay him $120,000. What do you think? Was
she marrying him under false pretenses? Does the fact that China has a
one-child rule make this lawsuit less ridiculous? Let us know in the
comments.
Donald Trump attempted to sue a book
author named Timothy O’Brien who
claimed Trump really wasn’t a billionaire.
Trump sued on the premise of libel, but
lost because the court was unable to prove
that O’Brien had committed actual malice.
In a book on Donald Trump, O’Brien
estimated Trump’s worth to be between
$150 and $250 million
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Trump filed a lawsuit of $5 billion to prove his point but was
obviously unsuccessful. The New Jersey court said, “There were no
significant internal inconsistencies in the information provided by the
confidential sources, nor was there ‘reliable’ information that contradicted
their reports.” Trump’s lawyers say his net worth easily exceeds $7 billion,
but Trump has admitted his worth changes based on his mood of the day.
In 1999, Debbie Mathers-Briggs took issue with
some of the things her son had been saying about her
and decided to file a lawsuit against Marshall Mathers
III, better known to the rest of the world as Eminem.
Mrs. Mathers-Briggs claimed his comments in a series
of interviews were slanderous to her and had caused
her a great deal of emotional distress. When the smoke
had cleared on these proceedings, the courts ruled on a
settlement of only $25,000! That sounds bad enough,
but it gets even worse - the judge ruled that around
$23,000 of the settlement was owed to the elder
Mathers’ lawyer, so after all this trouble, she only came
away with a measly $1,600!
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Israeli psychic Uri Geller sued
Nintendo in 2000 for 100,000 in damages.
He claims that the Pokemon Kadabra is a
ripoff of his name and his image.
According to Geller, a psychic known for
his spoon-bending ability, the Pokemon
has his abilities, looks like him, and in the
Japanese version he has a similar name
(“Yungerer” or “Un-Geller”).
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Furthermore, Geller says that the markings on Kadabra’s chest are
the Nazi SS symbol, making the comparisons between himself and
the Pokemon all the more damaging. Though there hasn’t been any
court order for Nintendo to stop using Kadabra, interestingly enough,
Kadabra has not been printed in card form since 2003, and has not
been on the show since 2005.