The Most Frivolous Lawsuits Ever

Some lawsuits have merit. These ones...don't.

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[LegalEagle]

For those of you looking for the McDonald's coffee cup case, that will be the subject of a future video (spoiler: perhaps it's NOT frivolous???)

[GadgetAddict]

The guy who wanted to legally chop 20 years off his date of birth is still less crazy than the judge who demanded 67.3 million dollars from the cleaners.

[ThanksHermione]

One woman sued 2 teen neighbor girls who knocked on her door and left cookies. She asked who was there, but they left wanting to surprise her with what they baked. She feared they were robbers. She had an anxiety attack and checked herself in to a hospital, thinking she was having a heart attack.

She called the police, claiming the girls damaged her door. They didn't find evidence of this. The girls apologized and offered to pay her medical expenses. The woman didn't think they were sincere and didn't like that they didn't apologize in person. She sued them for almost $900 and won. People who thought the situation was so ridiculous gave the teens the money to pay her off.

[nullplan]

I recently heard of a German court case decided in 2000, where a woman wanted to legally change her degree from "Doctor" to "Doctora". The court informed her that the proper Latin feminization of "Doctor" is "Doctrix", which she didn't want as her degree, saying it reminded her too much of Asterix and Obelix. In any case, the court held that it is neither the right nor the duty of the state to continue developing the Latin grammar.

[englishmuffinpizzas]

Honestly the dad who was trying to push back on drinking advertisements appealing to kids has a point. When you think about the time and resources spent promoting alcohol it is kind of insane.

[eduardodiaz]

Here in Spain, any lawsuit filed "in demonstrable bad faith" (read: frivolous) is automatically rejected by the judge and whoever files it has to pay both the judicial costs and a compensation to whoever was sued. So obviously, you see a lot less of these.

[Schmidhead]

Now could we all file a class action lawsuit on mobile app developers who advertise games with completely different functionality than the actual games being advertised? I think we’re all emotionally distressed

[LiEnby]

"Im suing myself for 20 million dollars, but becuase i cant pay it i want hte state to do it instead"
this guy is a mad genius

[Bueyedwof]

Former correctional officer here. I was actually sued by an inmate one time for "emotional distress" because i had brought in Hardee's for lunch once time and i wouldn't share it with him. The judge sensibly dismissed the case quoting, "I have better things to do with my time."

Other great inmate cases that came from our CI (many inmates literally have nothing to do but file lawsuits) were:
1. An inmate suing the institution for breach of security after he looked out his window and saw Santa dancing on the yard. In his filing, he openly admitted to taking meth beforehand.
2. Inmates trying to file a class action lawsuit against the state for allowing bland biscuits to be served at chow time.
3. An inmate trying to sue Salma Hayek for not dating him.
and many more...

[mdtexeira]

I've felt like a 70 year old since I was 10. I would like to start collecting my pension now, please.

[corngreaterthanwheat]

One would think writing that "my client is not the son of an orangutan." Would be the highlight of one's legal career considering how dry briefs can be.

[mssunnylunarain]

"Unfair denial of tinder dates...." That's a new one for me. In other words, he wanted younger women and they weren't interested in him.

[AroShattering]

The fact that the words “Alleged Missing Pants” had to seriously be said in court is just… truly beautiful

[BlueKey]

6:00
So thats how employers expect you to get 30 years of experience at age 22.

[teelo]

That prisoner case is genius. "Suing self for the damage caused to self, but because self is a ward of the state the state has to pay the damages"

[groofay]

That Judge Pearson suit is the stuff Karens' dreams are made of.

[PkAMG]

The guy who sued Busch honestly has a point. Since we banned those types of advertisements for cigarettes, they really should be for alcohol as well. So many people lie to themselves about what they're actually putting in their body, and it's real easy when you have a commercial every 10 minutes telling you it's ok.

[FeyPhantom]

I'm a little surprised the dry cleaning couple didn't get a ruling to have their lawyer fees paid by the plaintiff considering how he couldn't even prove the pants were lost.

[horselv]

Honestly, these are kinda scary in a weird way. It freaks me out to think that anyone can just sue you at any time and even if it's frivolous you still have to take the time and the money to deal with it.

[merchillio]

The guy claimed he was being discriminated against because of his age, but…. something tells me he wasn’t swiping right on 60 years old women either.