One hopeful plaintiff sued basketball star Michael Jordan and Nike co-founder Phil Knight for $862 million "for defamation and permanent injury," because he found it "distressing" to look like and be confused with the icon. He dropped the suit but won the 2006 "Stella Award" – named after the infamous McDonald's coffee case – for most ridiculous lawsuit that year.
But the competition for most outrageous lawsuit is stiff.
One woman sued an open air mall after she was "attacked" by a squirrel on the grass, claiming that the mall "failed to warn" her about these animals, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. In another attempt to pass the buck, a photographer sued a waste management company for $50 million after he fell off a garbage truck that he had climbed atop in order to take better pictures, reported the New York Daily News. His lawyer said the company was negligent since his client "never thought in a million years the truck would move."
Read the rest of the ABC News Report here.
[HT: Overlawyered ]
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