MOST SHOCKING COURT

CASES IN HISTORY

Elgun Seyidov

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.

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