Unbelievable Lawsuits 101.

I came across an interesting article where a man faces criminal charges after a passerby and her child saw the man making coffee in his kitchen. Naked. The prosecution will have to prove that Williamson knew people were there for them to get a conviction on the charge that carries a one-year jail term and a $2,000 fine.

I came across another article on 'unbelievable lawsuits that actually happened.'

Some of my favorites:



In 1991, a Michigan man sued Anheuser-Busch for false and misleading advertising. He also claimed that he suffered personal injury as a result of the false advertisement. In his complaint, he referenced a Bud Light commercial in which two beautiful women come to life for a couple of Budweiser truck drivers. Because this didn't happen to him when he drank the beer, he claimed that these false advertisements caused him emotional distress, mental injury, and financial loss. He sued in excess of $10,000. The court dismissed all his claims.

In 2006, a man sued Michael Jordan as well as the founder of Nike, Phil Knight, for $832 million. He claimed that because he was often mistaken for the basketball star, he had suffered permanent damage, including defamation of character and emotional pain and suffering. He later dropped the lawsuit.



A woman in Israel sued a tv station and it's weatherman for $1,000 when the weatherman predicted a sunny day and it rained. She said that, because the forecast was clear, she left home underdressed. She then caught the flu, missed 4 days of work, spent $38 on medications and "suffered stress" as a result of a badly forecasted day.

To inject a bit of legal analysis that is lacking in this blog post, what would happen in Australia if I was presented with or facing cases of such a spurious nature? Well, from the top of my head, I'd consider questioning the matter from the get-go, pointing out that it is a frivolous proceeding and one which doesn't have any merits, and hopefully 'quashing' the matter from the start.