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Stella Awards
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> Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards." The
> Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck, whom spilled hot
> coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case
> inspired the Stella Awards for the
> most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States .
>
> Here are this year's winners:
> 7th Place:
> Kathleen Robertson of Austin , Texas , was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her
> peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running
> inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably
> surprised at the verdict, considering
> the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
> 6th Place:
> 19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when
> his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr. Truman apparently
> didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying
> to steal his neighbor's
> hubca ps.
> 5th Place:
> Terrence Dickson of Bristol , Pennsylvania , was leaving a house he had just
> finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage
> door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He
> couldn't re-enter the house because
> the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The
> family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage
> for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of
> dry dog food. He sued the
> homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental
> anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of $500,000. In my opinion this is so
> outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place !
> 4th Place:
> Jerry Williams of Little Rock , Arkansas , was awarded $14,500 and medical
> expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next-door neighbor's
> beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was
> less than originally sought,
> because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the
> time, by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was
> shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
> 3rd Place:
> A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster ,
> Pennsylvania , $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her
> coccyx (tailbone). The be verage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had
> thrown it at her boyfriend 30
> seconds earlier during an argument.
> 2nd Place:
> Kara Walton of Claymont , Delaware , successfully sued the owner of a
> nightclub in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to
> the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms.
> Walton was trying to sneak through the
> window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was
> awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.
> 1st Place:
> This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City ,
> Oklahoma . Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago mo tor
> home. On her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven;
> onto the freeway, she set the cruise
> control at 70 mph and calmly left the drivers seat to go into the back &
> make herself a sandwich.
> Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Mrs.
> Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she
> couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000 plus a new motor
> home. The company actually
> changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any
> other complete morons around.

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I see the Pa Posse had 2 finishers in the top 7. lol

what can you expect lol lol lol

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Those stories are all fabricated... http://www.stellaawards.com/bogus.html

The 2006 True Stella Awards Winners
by Randy Cassingham
Issued 31 January 2007

#5: Marcy Meckler. While shopping at a mall, Meckler stepped outside and was "attacked" by a squirrel that lived among the trees and bushes. And "while frantically attempting to escape from the squirrel and detach it from her leg, [Meckler] fell and suffered severe injuries," her resulting lawsuit says. That's the mall's fault, the lawsuit claims, demanding in excess of $50,000, based on the mall's "failure to warn" her that squirrels live outside.

#4: Ron and Kristie Simmons. The couple's 4-year-old son, Justin, was killed in a tragic lawnmower accident in a licensed daycare facility, and the death was clearly the result of negligence by the daycare providers. The providers were clearly deserving of being sued, yet when the Simmons's discovered the daycare only had $100,000 in insurance, they dropped the case against them and instead sued the manufacturer of the 16-year-old lawn mower because the mower didn't have a safety device that 1) had not been invented at the time of the mower's manufacture, and 2) no safety agency had even suggested needed to be invented. A sympathetic jury still awarded the family $2 million.

#3: Robert Clymer. An FBI agent working a high-profile case in Las Vegas, Clymer allegedly created a disturbance, lost the magazine from his pistol, then crashed his pickup truck in a drunken stupor -- his blood-alcohol level was 0.306 percent, more than three times the legal limit for driving in Nevada. He pled guilty to drunk driving because, his lawyer explained, "With public officials, we expect them to own up to their mistakes and correct them." Yet Clymer had the gall to sue the manufacturer of his pickup truck, and the dealer he bought it from, because he "somehow lost consciousness" and the truck "somehow produced a heavy smoke that filled the passenger cab." Yep: the drunk-driving accident wasn't his fault, but the truck's fault. Just the kind of guy you want carrying a gun in the name of the law.

#2: KinderStart.com. The specialty search engine says Google should be forced to include the KinderStart site in its listings, reveal how its "Page Rank" system works, and pay them lots of money because they're a competitor. They claim by not being ranked higher in Google, Google is somehow infringing KinderStart's Constitutional right to free speech. Even if by some stretch they were a competitor of Google, why in the world would they think it's Google's responsibility to help them succeed? And if Google's "review" of their site is negative, wouldn't a government court order forcing them to change it infringe on Google's Constitutional right to free speech?

And the winner of the 2006 True Stella Award: Allen Ray Heckard. Even though Heckard is 3 inches shorter, 25 pounds lighter, and 8 years older than former basketball star Michael Jordan, the Portland, Oregon, man says he looks a lot like Jordan, and is often confused for him -- and thus he deserves $52 million "for defamation and permanent injury" -- plus $364 million in "punitive damage for emotional pain and suffering", plus the SAME amount from Nike co-founder Phil Knight, for a grand total of $832 million. He dropped the suit after Nike's lawyers chatted with him, where they presumably explained how they'd counter-sue if he pressed on.

http://www.stellaawards.com/2006.html

 
 
 
They don't even know how to spell sprint car 
much less chromoly...http://www.ycmco.com

Yikes, I forwarded them to Duane from My Attorney, what can you expect, lmao. Take It Easy....

 
 
 
They don't even know how to spell sprint car 
much less chromoly...http://www.ycmco.com

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