If the airline "managed to get her over there," was it "obligated to get her home"?

So says the lawyer for an obese woman who died after the airline could not get her onto a plane in Hungary. They spent several relaxing week...

"France's far-right National Front is to sue Madonna..."

"... after an image at the US singer's Paris concert showed party leader Marine Le Pen with a swastika imposed on her face." N...

"Basically, if she wins, then every single junior office worker in law or finance should be able to sue their employers."

"Which makes me think she’s not going to win." ADDED: But if she wins... maybe women will be able to have it all .

"Austrian Politician Photographed Having Sex In Forest By Hidden Wildlife Camera."

Oh, no! Have you ever considered this possibility when you were having sex in the forest? IN THE COMMENTS: AprilApple points to the part of ...

"In truth, the art project is akin to a massive resource extraction project, and under federal law should be treated as one..."

So reads the complaint in a lawsuit brought by a group of University of Denver law students against federal land managers who approved Chri...

American Atheists sue to keep the WTC cross out of the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

The cross, you may remember, is not something human beings constructed intentionally. It is steel that remained standing after the buildings...

What will the unions do now?

Probing into the unions' strategy here in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel only comes up with 2 things: 1. The recall elections...

"[T]he courts have no obligation to entertain pure speculation and conjecture."

Said the Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit , threatening sanctions against the plaintiffs' lawyer: [T]he appeals court said, the plain...

Bratz wins $88.4 million from Mattel... and Mattel started the legal battle.

Let this be a lesson to all you litigious people! Mattel had argued that the dolls' designer Carter Bryant developed the Bratz concept w...

Arianna says "the lawsuit completely ignores... how new media... have changed the game, enabling millions of people to shift their focus from passive observation to active participation — from couch potato to self-expression."

"Writing blogs, sending tweets, updating your Facebook page, editing photos, uploading videos, and making music are options made possib...

"And of course I run a veritable forced labor camp here...

"... where the authors of our million comments are (doubtless to their shock and horror) entirely unpaid, even though they drive up our...

How is it a crime to lie to a woman and thereby obtain her consent to have her breasts touched?

I don't understand this : Police in Idaho have arrested a woman who impersonated a plastic surgeon so she could carry out breast exams t...

Another classic case of hardass New Yorkitude.

From the comments section of the NY Post: this story actually makes me furious. she peed her pants and she's suing a club. another class...

"Garth Brooks Sues A Hospital."

Charity vanity and the ensuing litigiousness. WARNING: Male camel toe at the link.

Aw, come on Joe, what if a blind person saw it?

The designer of a Braille dreidel — the Braidel — doesn't appreciate a blogger's appreciation of it.

When you set out to destroy someone's good name, are you responsible to the other people who happen to have that name?

Matthew C. Ryan is not the most unusual name. It's not unique, but it's also not John Smith — a name so common that when you hear s...

Lesbians versus lesbians.

BBC reports: Campaigners on the Greek island of Lesbos are to go to court in an attempt to stop a gay rights organisation from using the ter...

Conservative authors sue the parent of Regnery Publishing over its deep-discount book club scheme.

The NYT reports. As if Regnery would have all those big best-sellers if they sold their tracts at full cover price in bookstores. Who are ...

$11 million damages for offensive speech.

It's against the vile Fred Phelps , so do you care? Are you happy? It was the first-ever verdict against Westboro Baptist Church, a fund...

"She had signed an agreement allowing her to appear in the movie, but she claims that she did not realise how much she would be ridiculed..."

Another in the long line of lawsuits I hope will fail. Cathy Martin, an Alabama etiquette expert, agreed to let [Sacha Baron Cohen, AKA Bor...