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Trump must pay $ 83.3 MILLION to E. Jean Carroll for defamation, a federal jury has ruled

A former Georgia lawmaker is planning to sue Clayton County for ousting her from her position after she was filmed screaming at medics who allegedly found her passed out drunk outside of a sports bar. Felicia Franklin announced that she is filing the suit for wrongful termination after county officials voted unanimously to dismiss her from her position as Board of Commissioners vice chair over the September altercation, which was recorded on police-worn body cameras, according to the Daily Mail. Franklin — who is also running for the county chairman position — claims in the lawsuit that the “traumatic and...

Ted Cruz held an unscheduled press conference today, the main purpose of which seems to have been to highlight the fact that the Trump campaign has threatened to sue him over ads his campaign is running in South Carolina, highlighting his pro-choice record. Cruz opened the press conference by reading portions of the letter, and declaring that if Trump filed the lawsuit, he would respond with a motion for sanctions. Take a look:

The tags, boldly appearing on each piece, told the Moores in no uncertain terms that the color of their comfy new set was actually “(Common rap song subject)-brown.” Enough to shock even the staunchest bigot where they stand…but that wasn’t the worst part – it was their 7 year old daughter who discovered the flagrantly fiendish flub. Curiously poking around just after the delivery men left, little Olivia asked mommy what the word meant. Ms. Moore then got on the phone and began a journey find who was responsible for the insulting label.

After hearing the Guinness Book of World Records planned to name him the most litigious man, one federal prisoner did what he does best -- he sued. From hot coffee to celebrity look-a-likes to unwanted record holding distinctions, the courts are jammed with what many consider to be unorthodox lawsuits. Jonathan Lee Riches' rambling lawsuit against the record-holding institution and several others is just the latest in his growing stash of outrageous court filings against everyone from New England Patriot's coach Bill Belichick to Martha Stewart. But Riches is not alone in trying up the legal system. Sometimes the coffee...

Boy, 8, sued in Beaver Creek ski collision Man, 60, says he was injured in crash on catwalk at Beaver Creek’s Arrowhead area Scott Swimm, 8, is being sued for a ski collision his father describes as a tap. A Pennsylvania man said tore a tendon in his shoulder in the crash. Steve Lynn Vail, CO Colorado December 20, 2007 EAGLE-VAIL, Colorado — Eight-year-old Scott Swimm spreads his arms wide when he describes the crash he was in with another skier at Arrowhead Mountain in January. “We were literally about this far away,” said Scott, an Eagle-Vail resident and third-grader...

A man who fell off a cliff and tumbled into Georgetown's Blue Hole Park has sued the city, saying there should have been warning signs at the edge of the drop-off. Jason Stanford, of Thomasville, N.C., slipped and fell off the cliff in front of the Holiday Inn on San Gabriel Village Boulevard on March 16, according to the lawsuit. City officials had previously said the fall occurred about 1:30 a.m. on March 17. Stanford fractured his leg, ankle and lower back, his attorney Mike Marbut said. Stanford had some beer, but was not drinking at the time of the...

Newsweek Feb. 20, 2006 issue - Viviana Chapman, who's due to give birth on March 1, was looking forward to capturing the event on camera. "This was going to be our memory forever," she says. But Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, like a growing number of the 2,778 U.S. hospitals with delivery rooms, is turning down patients' requests to videotape births. The official reason: privacy and safety concerns. But some say the real reason is that hospitals are afraid the tapes will be used against them in malpractice suits. Though videos rarely yield evidence, Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital in 2004...

A woman who bit down on a partial finger served in a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant in California said she was disgusted by the experience while her attorney has filed a claim with the franchise owner. Anna Ayala, 39, of Las Vegas, was dining at the Wendy's in San Jose, Calif., on March 22 when officials said she scooped up the inch-and-a-half long fingertip in a mouthful of chili. "Just knowing that there was a human remain in my mouth ... it is disgusting. It is tearing me apart inside," Ayala told ABC's "Good Morning America" on...

I suspect most Americans think that the $368 billion penalty extracted from the tobacco industry was inherently unfair. They sell a product that is legal. State governments benefit from the taxes on the sale of that product. Some States even invest in tobacco companies to benefit their pension funds. People may freely choose to either purchase the product or not. Smokers voluntarily assume the inherent and widely known risk of using that product. The verdict against the industry simply does not pass the smell test. For years now we have been hearing about outrageous amounts of money being awarded to...

LONDON (AP) -- A British judge ruled Thursday that a libel case being brought by a television host who says she was groped by Californian Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will go ahead. Sean Walsh, a spokesman for Schwarzenegger, had attempted to have the case thrown out, claiming that allegations bought by television presenter Anna Richardson had no chance of succeeding if they reached court. Richardson claims Schwarzenegger fondled her breast during an interview in London in 2000 and that his staff subsequently damaged her reputation as a professional interviewer by alleging she encouraged the behavior. She alleges she was libeled by...

Frank Dudley's attorney maintains incident based on race. Cop says Dudley became confrontational. WILKES-BARRE - An elderly black man who claimed he was manhandled by police was found guilty Wednesday of disorderly conduct and another offense in altercation Nov. 16 that prompted his allegations. Frank Dudley, 71, of Hanover Street, Wilkes-Barre, maintained he was simply out for a jog, and that officer Charles Casey arrested him for no reason. But Casey said Dudley became confrontational and shoved him in the chest after he approached Dudley on Coal Street and asked him to run on a sidewalk, rather than the roadway....

DANVILLE, Pa. - A woman is suing a doctor who operated on her, accusing him of leaving a 4-inch metal instrument in her uterus. The lawsuit filed in Montour County Court says Dr. Samuel Owusu operated on Lori Klinger, now 35, in November 2002. Klinger said she was in severe pain when she returned home and called her doctor. According to the lawsuit, Owusu told Klinger her pain was normal and told her to take pain medication. Two days later, she went to the bathroom, and the instrument emerged from her vagina, the lawsuit said. Klinger said the instrument was...

A group of blacks sued the Waffle House chain Tuesday, claiming they were discriminated against at restaurants in three Georgia cities. The Georgia lawsuit joins three others recently filed in North Carolina, Alabama and Virginia against the Norcross, Ga.-based company and its franchisees, who are accused of maintaining a pattern of discrimination and violating federal civil rights laws (search). The Plaintiffs in the cases allege that Servers used racial epithets, refused to wait on minority patrons, provided them with slow service and poor quality food while providing whites with prompt service and quality food. Wafflehouse spokesman Pat Warner has pointed...

Rummaging through a junk drawer the other day, I ran across a little government pamphlet that says on the back: "This book is valuable. Do not lose it." It is from the United States office of Price Administration and titled, "War Ration Book No. 3." Inside the book are four pages of 48 ration stamps each. Darned if I can remember exactly how these ration stamps were used -- I was just a kid during the Second World War. But, this book has my name on it, so I kept it. No reason. I just did. My childhood wasn't a...

March 11, 2004 Group Is Suing Federal Agency Over Post-9/11 Health HazardsBy ANTHONY DePALMA he health of tens of thousands of people who live and work in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn has been endangered by the way federal officials mishandled the environmental hazards caused by the collapse of the World Trade Center, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in United States District Court in Manhattan. Twelve Manhattan residents and workers sued the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to follow its own procedures to ensure the area was safe before allowing people to return.They also accused the agency's former administrator, Christie...

SCO to sue Linux user Tuesday Last modified: March 1, 2004, 4:35 PM PST By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com SAN FRANCISCO--The SCO Group plans to expand its Linux legal attack on Tuesday by filing a lawsuit against a large company using the open-source operating system. SCO Chief Executive Darl McBride announced the plan Monday at the Software 2004 conference here, but he didn't identify the company beyond saying it would have a recognized name. SCO, which owns a disputed amount of Unix intellectual property and claims some of the code was improperly used in Linux, threatened in November...

SCO Preparing Legal Action Against CustomerBy Matthew Aslett SCO Group Inc is preparing to take a Linux user to court to speed up the legal process in its claim Unix code has been illegally copied into Linux, and also encourage Linux users to take out a license for its intellectual property. The company has signed one large customer up to its Intellectual Property License for Linux, but faces opposition from many more who believe SCO must prove its claims in a court of law before they will hand over the $700 per CPU for the license. Speaking at SCO's Forum...

The widow of Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler has sued the manufacturer and the distributor of a dietary supplement containing ephedra for $600 million. The 23-year-old Bechler was taking the supplement to lose weight at the start of spring training when he collapsed Feb. 16 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. His body temperature rose to more than 108 degrees and he died the next day. A bottle of Xenadrine RFA-1 was found in Bechler's locker. Toxicology tests confirmed "significant amounts" of an over-the-counter supplement containing ephedra led to Bechler's heatstroke, along with other factors, the medical examiner said. The lawsuit, filed...

GEORGE Galloway has enjoyed considerable success in the courts during his political career, winning an estimated total of £250,000 in libel damages. In some cases, the disputes have been settled before they reach the courts, but the Labour MP has proved time and again he will call on expensive lawyers when crossed. Mr Galloway’s biggest libel win was against the Daily Mirror and its sister paper in Scotland, the Daily Record, in December 1992. It followed the so-called "Mirrorgate" affair in which a US journalist claimed the Daily Mirror’s then foreign editor, Nick Davies, had been involved in arms dealing...