Tag Archives: lawsuits

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) wants to create a “loser pays” system for civil lawsuits so groups like the ACLU will be “dissuaded from intimidating Christians and conservative groups.” “They’ve done a lot of harm,” he states bluntly. “They’re the group that constantly attacks the Boy Scouts for having ‘God’ in their pledge and wanting to set their own standards. The …

A federal judge has ruled that calling somebody “gay” no longer legally qualifies as defamation because of society’s changing attitudes. The ruling came in the case of noted douchebag Howard K. Stern, who is suing the author of a book on the life of Anna Nicole Smith. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin of Manhattan ruled (PDF posted by the New …

A Minneapolis-area high school junior has been awarded a $25K settlement after two teacher harassed him and made him the brunt of classroom jokes about his perceived sexual orientation. The boy’s “fence swings both ways,” teacher Diane Cleveland commented during a class in the 2007-2008 school year, according to an investigation by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights. When the …

Trina Thompson just graduated from the Bronx campus of Monroe College this April. It’s now August and Thompson’s brand new bachelor’s degree hasn’t gotten her a job yet. So she is suing Monroe College for $70K, the complete cost of her tuition, saying they haven’t tried hard enough to find her employment. Not uncoincidentally, the first payments on Thompson’s student …

A man has filed suit against Denny’s because he shocked, SHOCKED, that the Meat Lover’s Scramble (which features two eggs with chopped bacon, diced ham, crumbled sausage, Cheddar cheese, plus two bacon strips, two sausage links, hash browns, and two pancakes) has 5,690 milligrams of sodium. Nick Benedetto, 48, says he has eaten at Denny’s for years and now has …

After threatening to sue gay blog site The Bilerico Project for publishing a story linking the company to the anti-gay rantings of its founder’s father, radio blowhard Michael Savage, Rockstar Energy Drink has issued a statement disavowing Savage and pledging $100K to LGBT causes. ROCKSTAR Energy Drink CEO Russell Weiner announced today that the beverage company will expand its LGBT …

Huffington Post blogger Shannyn Moore calls Sarah Palin “a coward and a bully.”

Saying that putting the WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) logo at the top of their stationery “portrays the debtor as a sinner who is going to hell” and therefore violates the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act, one debt collection agency is suing another and has filed a federal class action suit to force the removal of the logo. The agency …

Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders have won their first DOMA-related suit, in which a married gay person will be allowed to list his or her changed name on their U.S. passport. GLAD filed its lawsuit, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, in March to challenge section 3 of DOMA on behalf of six married same-sex couples and three men …

Rockstar Energy Drink, the company owned by the son of viciously anti-gay radio host Michael Savage, has threatened the operators of Bilerico.com with a lawsuit for a post made calling for a boycott of the company. The post contends that Savage benefits financially from the profits of his son’s company. Bilerico editor Bil Browning: In April, guest blogger Michael Jones …

Repent America founder Michael Marcavage is suing the city of Philadelphia and its police department because they have repeatedly removed him from the premises of Outfest, the city’s annual gay pride celebration. Lansdowne-based Repent America director Michael Marcavage says he was physically restrained by city police on four separate occasions and that an officer once put him into a chokehold. …

A retired NYPD lieutenant is suing Bumble Bee Tuna for $100K because he choked on a tiny bone and now, tragically, can no longer enjoy tuna. In fact, he cannot eat fish of any kind! Which has left him with “permanent emotional pain and suffering.” “I can’t even be near tuna now,” said the ex-cop. “Like a fish fillet sandwich? …

A broad coalition of LGBT rights organizations have expressed opposition to the planned federal lawsuit for marriage equality announced yesterday by lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies. From Freedom To Marry: In response to the California Supreme Court decision allowing Prop 8 to stand, four LGBT legal organizations and five other leading national LGBT groups are reminding the LGBT community …

Anti-gay legal group Alliance Defense Fund has filed a federal lawsuit against the “gay anarchists” who last November disrupted a Michigan church service by pulling the fire alarm, dropping pro-gay leaflets, and shouting “Jesus was a homo” at parishioners. Via Christian site The Voice: “The use of violent threats and criminal behavior to make a political point should never be …

A New Jersey medical student is suing his school for discrimination for the way they treated him after he described himself as a “white, African, American.” Which, as a Mozambique-born Caucasian immigrant, he technically is. But he may also be an asshat, as the school suspended him for continuing to use the expression after being told others found it offensive. …

After a security guard was trampled to death by an unruly mob stampeding the entrance of a Long Island Wal-Mart, many called for the criminal prosecution of the company for staging the pre-dawn “doorbuster” holiday sales event with little security. Yesterday the company evaded charges. Mega-retailer Wal-Mart will avoid criminal prosecution for its role in the fatal post- Thanksgiving Day …

Anti-gay televangelist Pat Robertson is being sued by SunTrust bank for $3.6M because he refuses to reimburse them for costs incurred when the bank backed his ill-fated purchase of a Los Angeles oil refinery. SunTrust said one of its predecessor banks, Richmond-based Crestar, provided a letter of credit to Golden West Refining Co. in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., in 1998 …

A gay couple in New Orleans is asking a federal judge to overturn that state’s ban on same-sex marriage after being denied a marriage license. Kristoffer Bonilla, 33, and John Thomas Wray, 18, are asking a federal judge to strike down the constitutional amendment, which lawmakers and voters overwhelmingly approved in 2004. The men filed the lawsuit against several state …

Last year a New Jersey man successfully sued Christian-run dating site E-Harmony under his state’s anti-discrimination laws. As part of their settlement, today the site launches their LGBT dating campaign. As of today, EHarmony comes out of the closet. The adamantly heterosexual dating website, which has accepted only male-female couples since its inception in 2000, is launching a gay matchmaking …

The family of murdered gay teen Lawrence King has filed suit against just about everybody that ever knew him for not insisting that he “tone down” his feminine ways. Because that’s why he was murdered. Not because Brandon McInerney was a Nazi-obsessed skinhead wannabe who hated gays. The family of a gay teenager who was shot to death in class …