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Last week retired US Gen. John Sheehan ridiculously claimed that the Bosnian genocide of thousands of Muslim men and boys was the result of the homo-infested Dutch army. A group of openly gay Dutch soldiers has announced their plan to sue Sheehan for libel. “Gay reproach is world news,” reads NRC Handelsblad’s weekend headline. “The fall of the Balkenende cabinet …

The right wing is wasting no time in issuing an avalanche of lawsuits to overturn the health care reform bill. Here’s another one, from the anti-gay Liberty Counsel, home to Matt Barber. The healthcare bill is unconstitutional for several reasons, including the fact that Congress lacks the authority to mandate insurance coverage for individuals or private businesses. Any “reconciliation” issues …

Yesterday Lambda Legal filed suit in the New Jersey Supreme Court arguing that the state had failed to comply with a 2006 ruling from the Court requiring that gay couples be treated the same as straight couples. “We come back to the court to turn equal rights on paper to equal rights in the real,” said Hayley Gorenberg, Lambda Legal’s …

Several days after all of the Atlanta Eagle bar raid patrons and employees were found not guilty or had their charges dismissed, the lawsuit against the Atlanta police has expanded. Attorneys have now named 35 individual Atlanta police officers in the suit and have added six more Eagle patrons as plaintiffs. (PDF.)

Viacom’s billion-dollar lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement is yielding some fascinating details. Even as Viacom was sending Google takedown notices for clips from their shows such as the Colbert Report and the Daily Show, their own marketing teams were posting clips from those very shows and many others. According to a trial claim by YouTube: For years, Viacom continuously …

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has announced that he will be suing the federal government to block the implementation of the health care reform bill in his state. Cuccinelli has long said he was examining the legal issues and suggested he would likely file suit. Brian Gottstein, a spokesman for the office, said this afternoon that a lawsuit is now …

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a $20,000 frivolous lawsuit judgment against birther loon Orly Taitz, who was sanctioned for filing suits intended to prove President Obama is not an American citizen. Taitz’ appeal stems from a suit filed on behalf of Capt. Connie Rhodes, who argued in September that Barack Obama’s presidency wasn’t legitimate and that she …

Classmates.com has settled a class action lawsuit for $9.5M for tricking people into signing up for memberships by falsely telling them that old schoolmates were trying to contact them. The problems for Classmate.com began back in late 2007, when San Diego resident Anthony Michaels received an email from the social networking company informing him that his old classmates were trying …

A NYC charter school teacher is being sued by the parents of a 9 year-old boy, who say the teacher forced him to write a note to a female crush, falsely “confessing” that he is gay. According to court papers filed this week, the teacher, Jared Alessandroni, 29, threatened to “out” a straight 9-year-old boy, James Pastrana, to his class …

The ACLU has filed suit in federal court demanding that a Mississippi school board rescind their decision to cancel a high school prom rather than allow a lesbian student to attend with her female date. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit today against a Mississippi High School that has canceled prom rather than let a lesbian high school …

Lindsay Lohan is suing E*Trade for $100M, claiming that the “milkaholic” baby in their new ad is a violation of her name and personality. You see, the milk-addicted baby is named Lindsay. The drug-addicted Ms. Lohan says that since she’s now as famous as any other one-name celebrity such as Cher or Madonna, nobody can use the name Lindsay ever …

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of the man who sued Westboro Baptist Church for picketing the funeral of his son. The Supreme Court will review whether anti-gay protests at funerals of American soldiers are protected by the First Amendment, taking up the appeal of a Maryland man who won and then had reversed a $10 million …

A woman in Queens is suing the maker of her big floppy clown shoes because when she dressed up as Bozo for Halloween, her defective big floppy clown shoes caused her to trip and injure herself. Presumably this isn’t the Queens woman of the Diana Ross wig head fame.

One of the lawyers representing the patrons of the Atlanta Eagle has written to note that fewer than half of the customers who were present on the night of that outrageous raid have joined the lawsuit against the city and the cops. He advises that there are only a few days left to “easily” join the complaint. And it won’t …

A women in Queens is suing a local wig shop because as she was trying on a Diana Ross wig, the saleswoman accidentally knocked a plastic mannequin head onto her foot, leaving the customer unable to have sex with her husband. Her lawyer says that nerve damage has left his client unable to curl her toes. Or her husband’s, somehow.

As amusing as this ad may be, the cynic in me wonders if this personal injury firm wasn’t forced into this campaign as part of some fraud settlement.

The Atlanta City Council will subpoena eighteen police officers to force their testimony before a citizen review board about last September’s raid of the Atlanta Eagle in which patrons were handcuffed, verbally abused, and forced to lie on the floor. The Committee on Council’s unanimous vote came after more than an hour of testimony, questions and debate Monday on the …

A class action suit has been filed against a Pennsylvania school district for distributing laptop computers to its students and then remote accessing their webcams to spy on their home lives. According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams …

A lawsuit has been filed with the Supreme Court charging that Hillary Clinton is ineligible to serve as Secretary of State because as a Senator she had voted to increase the salary of the position she now holds. The litigants claim that vote, made in 2007, is forbidden by an arcane clause of the U.S. Constitution. Before Clinton was confirmed, …

An Ohio woman has filed a federal lawsuit against her son’s elementary school after his teacher mocked his long hair by tying it into pigtails. According to the suit, the teacher then brought the boy to the front of the class and encouraged his classmates to mock him with feminine versions of his name. Allegedly, the teacher finished by taking …