Posts Tagged ‘ Lawsuits ’

A New Hampshire high school student shocked so severely in shop class that his heart stopped beating is suing his teacher, the school district and the city of Dover. Kyle Dubois and his parents claim teacher Thomas Kelley did not warn Dubois and other students of the dangers of the electrical demonstration cords in...
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A Sardinian snack bar owner who incurred the legal wrath of McDonald’s for daring to use the prefix ‘Mc’ on his shop front has become an unlikely hero for Italian politicians and food campaigners fed up with the global clout of the American hamburger chain. Ivan Puddu, 32, decided to give his restaurant in...
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Northlake woman sued McDonald’s in Cook County Circuit Court today claiming that her daughter was seriously burned in 2009 when a hot chocolate she ordered from the fast-food giant spilled and seriously burned her leg. Vicki LaRocco purchased the hot chocolate for her daughter on April 28, 2009 at a McDonald’s drive-through window in...
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A federal judge is allowing a negligence lawsuit to proceed against the publisher of the online virtual-world game Lineage II, amid allegations that a Hawaii man became so addicted he is “unable to function independently in usual daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, bathing or communicating with family and friends.” Craig Smallwood,...
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A Glendale teacher says that he was saddened by the death of one of his students in a school drowning but that he is not to blame for the teen’s death. Tim McKee, a nine-year physical-education teacher at Ironwood High School, said Peoria Unified School District officials are trying to say he is responsible...
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The parents of a Milton woman killed in a July 2008 car crash are suing The Kraft Group and the town of Foxborough, contending that security at Gillette Stadium failed to prevent ticketless underage drinkers from partying and consuming alcohol in the stadium parking lot during a rowdy annual music event before getting behind...
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The family of a man who was hit by a train while jumping off a trestle into a river two years ago is suing the railroad and a local canoe center, according to documents filed in Clark County Common Pleas Court Thursday, Aug. 5. Among the allegations listed in the complaint: • The canoe...
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When they bought their £1.7million country home, Nicholas and Dinah Morgan say they were assured it offered ‘a high degree of seclusion’ with just the odd wild animal to bother them. So they were more than a little surprised to find that, from the vantage point of a new driveway, farmhands could gawp at...
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A Texas law student who took a defense lawyer’s $1 million challenge from a “Dateline NBC” interview is suing for the money he claims he is owed. Dustin Kolodziej of the San Antonio area said attorney James Mason offered in a “Dateline NBC” interview he would pay $1 million to anyone who could prove...
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A teacher in Australia is claiming half a million pounds in compensation because she says she permanently damaged her larynx yelling at rowdy children. Her voice was damaged, she says, during her attempts to shout over the noise in her classroom as she tried to control the pupils, aged around 11. The claim by...
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