Attorney Todd Levitt, More Proof That A Lawyer Who Represents Himself Has a Fool For a Client.

In Michigan, a rather thin-skinned lawyer by the name of Todd Levitt sued a 21 year old college kid for making fun of him on Twitter...and lost.

‘Badass Attorney’ Todd Levitt Loses Libel Suit, May Need New Sense Of Humor

Levitt, an attorney who appears to make his living by hanging around Central Michigan University and soliciting minor criminal defense cases from college kids who get in trouble, has marketed himself to the college kids by describing himself as a "bad-ass attorney" on social media and posting about his own fondness for using alcohol and marijuana.

Real professional, right?

At some time last year, a college student named Zack Felton, age 21, put up a parody Twitter account that made fun of Levitt and his plea-bargain mill sole-practitioner law firm, apparently in response to some of the dopey things that Levitt himself posted on Twitter and Facebook. Felton made it very clear that his site was NOT intended to be anything other than a parody of this Saul Goodman wanna-be lawyer and even posted multiple disclaimers telling people as much.

Levitt, not amused, shook his fist in the air and screamed out the battle cry of the modern American Liberal: "I'll SUE you!"

And sue he did. You can read the entire filing here.

The case made it as far as the courtroom of the Honorable Paul Chamberlain, who looked at the facts of the case, including the fact that young Mr. Felton made it very clear that his site was NOT intended to be anything other than a parody of this Saul Goodman wanna-be lawyer and even posted multiple disclaimers telling people as much. Judge Chamberlain then looked deep into his law books and found a little thing called "The First Amendment to the United States Constitution". Applying that, he determined that young Mr. Felton had a right to publicly lampoon Levitt and his alleged practice of law, and he then tossed Levitt and his frivolous lawsuit right out of court.

Levitt is now claiming that he will appeal.

"This is not the end of my case," Levitt said. "It's just the beginning. In some ways, this is a case of first impression that needs to go up to (a) higher court."

Yeah, Todd. You're right. No one has ever litigated that First Amendment before. I'll bet that the Supreme Court tosses that whole Constitution just as soon as they take up your case.

Moron.

Meanwhile, Felton's parody Twitter account, which hadn't posted in months, jumped back to life after the court ruling.

"Motion for summary disposition granted," he wrote. "Levitt v. Felton is over. Parody lives on!"

Another Tweet took one last jab at the attorney.

"Rough day at the office," Felton wrote. "Lost another case... maybe the new 'Better Call Saul' will give me a boost."

If I ever get in legal trouble in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, I'll be sure to call Attorney Todd Levitt...and ask him for Zack Felton's phone number.

Disclaimer: This is not an actual picture of Todd Levitt.

This is Todd Levitt.

Oh--and during discovery, he was forced to admit that he created a website appearing to rate lawyers and used it to give himself an award for being "College lawyer of the year", which he then used in his own advertisements.

Mt. Pleasant lawyer suing student admits to fake award, marijuana tweets


I'd call him a jackass again, but we're to the point now where it would be considered libelous...to jackasses.

More on the moron who got herself locked in the gun safe.

Just a follow-up on Rachel Mitchell of Germantown, MD, the loserette who had to be cut out of a gun safe at Tractor Supply Co. in Somerset, PA last Saturday.

I did some looking to see what I could find on this MENSA candidate, and a quick search brought up a chick who holds herself out as a "Cocktail Waitress/Promo Model" (whatever that is.)

The girl in the pictures making duckface after duckface looks pretty vacuous, but I couldn't be sure that it was "safe girl" and I didn't want to point the finger at the wrong person. But today, on her Facebook page where she goes by the name "soccerchixs18" (linked from her previous bio page), she is asking is anyone knows of a good Pennsylvania attorney for a civil suit.

Yeah, it's her.

And she has a Twitter account, too. It's called "soccerchixs18" as well. And on this page, when not posting pictures of her three-year old daughter holding up breast implants at the cosmetic surgery office where she works/worked, she publicly follows the Kardashian sisters and several other attention whores who are famous basically just for making sex tapes and "accidentally" releasing them. This whole thing makes me wonder if Rachel Mitchell, aka: "safegirl" did not pull this stunt on purpose just to get fifteen minutes of fame, some media exposure and a bag of lawsuit cash.

I'm thinking that this one needs to be watched.

EDITED TO ADD: As of Feb 13th, Rachel must have seen or heard about this post because her shiftgig and twitter accounts have been taken down and her facebook page has been cleared of numerous poor-taste pictures and any mention of her planned lawsuit.

She's still a twit who deserves to be punched in the face though, just for being so stupid and narcissistic.

Another Illegal Sues America After Getting Hurt Smuggling Drugs In.

So here we have Jose Manuel Marino-Najera, one of Obama's "DREAMers"...just here to work, right? And this nice gang of drug smugglers offered to help him get into our country if he'd just carry some of their dope...

And now he's suing us all because, while he was here illegally, bringing dope into our communities, a Border Patrol dog bit him.

Man who crossed border with drugs sues U.S. after claiming Border Patrol K-9 mauled him

First of all, I don't buy his story for a second. Just sleeping when a dog walked up and began chewing on him? Doubt it. That's not how police K-9 dogs work. But the real bite here is the fact that this guy, after being convicted of his part in the drug smuggling and serving six months in jail for it, was never deported and is still in our country! (Thanks Obama and Boehner!)

And sincesewage flows downhill, it's not surprising that he'd find fellow scumbag attorney Bill Risner, who appears to be only too happy to turn on his country and help enrich a border-hopping, drug-smuggling foreign national.

In a perfect country, we'd have a huge border fence running the entire length of our border with Mexico, and we'd have some big catapults to flip illegals like Marino-Najera back over the fence and into Mexico again after they finish their jail terms...and sell-outs like Risner and the losers who buy narcotics would get tossed, too.

Lawsuit abuse, and the scumbags that file them.

In Pontiac, Michigan, we have a candidate for BS Lawsuit of the year in Alexis Wilson.

Wilson was released from prison on parole in 2012 after serving two years for a crash in which her pregnant pal Tamia Williams was killed. That crash occurred when Williams, driving without a license after drinking and high on marijuana, lost control of the rented Chevrolet Malibu that she was driving at speeds close to 88mph in a 35 mph zone. She struck a pole and a fence and the car was destroyed. Wilson was badly injured but survived, while her passenger, the pregnant Williams, died. Wilson was sentenced to prison for manslaughter, but now with the furor over certain GM cars having defective ignition locks (the Malibu not being one of these), Williams is filing a lawsuit against Government General Motors and trying to get paid. And Williams' mother has apparently forgiven Wilson and joined her in the lawsuit in an attempt to sue her way onto Easy Street as well.

Driver imprisoned for fatal GM crash in 2008 wants payback

“I feel like I took responsibility for my actions with me going to prison and dealing with my friend dying,” she said in an interview this week. “I feel like that General Motors should take some responsibility in terms of what’s wrong with the car.”

And by "responsibility", she means that GM should hand her a big sack of cash.
“I shouldn’t have been driving, and I shouldn’t have been drinking. Or if I was speeding, I shouldn’t have been speeding,” Wilson said.

But you really can't have a frivolous lawsuit without an ambulance-chasing bottom-feeding lawyer, and in this case, we have Bob Hilliard of Texas.
In a phone interview Wednesday, Hilliard said he will sue over wrongful incarceration and death because Hilliard thinks Williams was killed because the front air bags failed to deploy. He said it doesn’t matter what caused the accident, nor if Wilson was speeding or didn’t have a license.

Now Hilliard probably knows that front airbags don't deploy if a car spins sideways into something, as this car did when Wilson spun off the road and into that pole. They also don't keep a person alive when the impact is severe enough to wrench the entire engine right out of the car, as was the case here. Some things just aren't survivable, and an 88MPH lateral impact into a post is pretty much on that list, frontal airbag deployment of not. And did GM force Wilson to drive without a license after drinking and smoking weed? Of course not. But this being a "victim mentality" culture, at least Wilson and Williams' mom and Bob Hilliard think that GM should still make her rich as a consequence of her own bad choices.

Now I despise GM and would be only too happy to see them bankrupted out of existence, but in this case, I hope that they find some backbone and fight this one and send Wilson and her money-grubbing shyster packing without a dime. Of course GM probably worries about a case like this getting in front of a jury made up of Wilson's peers: twelve fools who think that lawsuits are a form of urban lottery where anyone who sues a corporation or government agency is supposed to get paid regardless of actual fault. And they'd be right to worry since we see that sort of thing happening all the time, as in this case in New York City where a shoplifter was just handed $510,000 for an injury sustained while resisting arrest.

Crook wins $510K suit against cops for arrest injury

The amount was so huge that it even surprised the plaintiff, Kevin Jarman, who is a career criminal and serial litigant against the city. Jarman has already sued the city and won cash settlements twice before over arrests.
The perpetual plaintiff told The [New York] Post he was surprised only by the size of the jury’s mammoth award. “I’m doing great,” he said.

While it was the biggest, the windfall wasn’t Jarman’s first payout from the city. He sued the NYPD in 2005 for false arrest after a drug-sale rap was dropped. The city settled for $15,000. Jarman, 50, took the cops to court again in November 2013 for false arrest on another drug rap that was dropped, and the city settled that case last month for $20,000.

Again, I feel nothing but contempt for the City of New York and their socialist ways, but it galls me to see scumbags getting rich for doing nothing but wrong. In a Just world, Kevin Jarman and Alexis Wilson--and their lawyers--would just be bundled off to our southern border, handed shovels, and put to work digging a border moat for the next couple of decades.

Dueling Loser lawsuits

In the news today: two losers competing to see who can file the dumbest lawsuit.

Fat loser number one: Andrew Rector, a 26 year old used car salesman with more chins than a chinese phone book who decided to take a nap at the ballpark only to come to the attention of a roving tv camera.


Yankees fan caught sleeping suing ESPN for $10 million

Since he was shown on the live cam sound asleep in the ballpark, Rector claims that he's been ridculed and mocked for being fat and stupid amd that his feelings have been hurt, so he's suing ESPN, the two commentators, the stadium and the New York Yankees for ten million dollars, claiming to have “suffered substantial injury” to his “character and reputation,” as well as “mental anguish, loss of future income and loss of earning capacity.”

And what's really sad is that he quickly found an ambulance-chasing lawyer named Valentine Okwara who is so skilled that his filing included statements like this one:

“These words and its insinuations presented the plaintiff as symbol of anything but failure.”

WTF does that even mean? Hey, fat, stupid guy...next time you file a totally frivolous lawsuit, at least try to find a lawyer who can speak and write in English, ok?

Oh, and apparently the guy still lives with his mom. No shocker there, right?


But Rector is not the only life failure who is abusing our courts and trying to score a quick buck off of people who don't owe them anything. He's still got some stiff competition from Jesse Ventura, the ex-wrestler and former governor of the State of Minnesota who is suing Taya Kyle, widow of murdered former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, because Kyle told a tale in his book American Sniper about punching out a "scruffy faced loudmouth" in a bar who was running down President Bush and announcing that the Navy SEALS "deserved to lose a few men" in Iraq. Kyle never named this person but Ventura, no doubt seeing a chance for another fifteen minutes of fame, jumped up out of the chesap seats and yelled: "Hey, that was me, and it never happened!"

Jesse Ventura's defamation suit over 'American Sniper' Chris Kyle's book heads to court

Many people have noted the fact that Ventura didn't say jack about this while Kyle was still alive, but as soon as he died, killed by a fellow vet with PTSD that he was trying to mentor, Ventura quickly filed this suit against Kyle's widow, seeking a chunk of the profits from Kyle's book and a related movie that's in the works. Ventura seems to think that this anecdote, which filled less than a page in this book about Kyle's life and military exploits, somehow enriched Kyle unjustly and damaged Ventura's reputation. (Yeah, like Ventura ever had a reputation as anything other than a crater-mouthed clown.)

Again, Jesse has a lawyer who apparently hasn't warned him that as a public figure, Ventura has to prove actual malice or intentional disregard of the truth by Kyle AND he has to show specifically how he suffered harm, either of which will be difficult and combined, nearly impossible. Obviously what this was meant to be was an attempt to shake Taya Kyle down for some cash, but her refusal to just pay him off has now put him in a position where he can't win but can't back down without looking like even more of a twonk than he already does.

But just so there are no doubts...Jesse, this story of Kyle's doesn't make me think any less of you; I never thought you anything but a self-promoting jerk before this and my opinion of you wasn't affected in the least until you went after a grieving widow and the reputation of a man who did a lot more for America that you ever have or will.

When these suits are thrown out of court--and I predict that both will be--both plaintiffs and their lawyers should be sentenced to a few years of community service, pefhaps picking up litter or cleaning up graffitti, while wearing clown suits.

Tort reform, people. This is why we need it.

Ah, California, where live-in nannies hired off Craigslist can refuse to work or move out of your house

Please allow me to be the first one to call Ralph Bracamonte of Upland, California a bitch.

On second thought, I probably should not, as he's more than likely an Obama-supporting liberal who will sue me for hurting his feelings. Why would I think that, you ask? Because Ralph and his wife Marcia decided to hire a nanny to live in their house back in March, settling on Diane Stretton, whom they found on Craigslist and apparently hired without bothering with a reference check or even a cursory Google search. I assume this last part because I did a cursory Google search on Stretton and found all sorts of lawsuits that she's been a party to, including the one that got her labeled as a "vexatious litigant" in California due to the number of ridiculous pro se lawsuits that she's brought against people. Based on that history alone, I'd never have hired Stretton to do anything, but apparently the Bracamontes didn't bother to do their homework, known also as "due diligence", because they entered into an agreement with Stretton where she'd move into their home and help Marcia with the couple's three kids.

Alas, a few weeks after she got in, she suddenly decided to stop working or even come out of her room other than at mealtimes. When the Bracamontes tried to tell her that she had to work or leave, she slammed the bedroom door in their faces and refused to do either. Now it's almost July, and she's still in their house, eating their food and even demanding that they all vacate their own house between the hours of 8AM and 8PM so that she can have some alone time.

Family Stumped by Fired Live-In Nanny Who Won't Leave

And here's why I call Ralph a milquetoaste bitch, because the first thing that he should have done was to snatch her up and toss her and her junk right out of his house, for the safety of his wife and children if nothing else. Instead, Ralph just lets her keep living there in close proximity to his three children while he begs a judge to help him out. Of course Diane Stretton is no fool; she knows how to work the system and she's challenging his eviction attempts in court and beating him because the California court system couldn't care less about actual justice. Any real man who cares about the safety and well-being of his family would have pitched this woman head-first out the door and locked it, then dared her to sue away. As it is, she's planning on suing them anyway and has told them as much, so why not just accept that as a given and at least put her out of your house in the meantime?

Oh yeah...because Ralph Bracamonte lacks a spine, that's why. You can only be a victim if you allow yourself to be victimized, and Ralph seems more than content to just trundle off to work every day, leaving his wife and kids in the company of a strange crazy woman.

Ralph, I wish you luck, but in the meantime, please turn in your man card.

As for the rest of us...this seems to be where America is heading, folks. All I can suggest is buying rural property and plenty of ammunition.

One of them days...

Today was not my best day ever. I got the bill for my plane's annual inspection and required repairs, and then I got the estimate for repairs needed on my vehicle which is in the shop right now getting it's own annual inspection.
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Glad I didn't write a check for that Jeep truck yesterday.

But at least I'm not Roy Ortiz, so that's something positive.

For those of you not familiar with that name yet, Ortiz is the guy in Colorado who drove his truck through water over a road during a flash flood, only to wind up trapped inside his flipped over vehicle, neck deep in water. He was saved, however, by the highly-trained rescue personnel of the North Metro Fire Rescue District, who rushed a dive team to the scene and got him out of the mess that he got himself into. So what does the typical "grateful to be alive" guy do these days in the land of the bottom-feeding tort lawyers? That's right...he sues the people who saved him, because doggone it, he's got a new truck coming and he was scared emotionally traumatized.

Broomfield man rescued from Rock Creek during September floods could sue his rescuers

He claims $40,000 in medical bills and property loss, but rather than try to work something out with the medical providers, he says that he should just get $500,000 of the fire department's money.

I'm thinking that the next time there's a flood at that spot, the fire department guys should go to his house, snatch him up, and toss him and Ed Ferszt, his sleazebag lawyer, right back in.

18-year old sues parents for continued support and college tuition.

Yeah, our society finally went there.

High school senior sues parents for college tuition

In sum, Precious Princess Rachel Canning apparently moved out of her parents' house because she didn't like their rules or their objection to her boyfriend. She then moved in with that boyfriend and his parents, and now the boyfriend's parents are financing her lawsuit against her parents, demanding that they pay for her continued room and board and send her to college...and also that they pay them back for over 12K in legal bills that they paid on Canning's behalf.

I gotta say it--she deserves the kick to the curb, if that's what even happened. (The parents claim that she left voluntarily, she claims that they kicked her out.) They already spent the money to send her to a posh private high school and bought her a car, and in return, she calls protective services on them and sues them because they don't give her more.

But Rachel is 18 now and legally an adult. Let her spend a few years waiting tables and flipping burgers and then we'll see if she doesn't earn to appreciate her parents a bit more, even if they did apparently over-indulge her as a child. Ingratitude and a sense of entitlement like she has...that's learned over time.

And if someone else decided to meddle in my family matters like John Inglesino, her boyfriend's father has, I would be whipping his ass in broad daylight and I'd call the police on myself in advance. Some things are worth a misdemeanor assault charge.

A look into the mind of an Anti-Gun Democrat

Most every gun owner who cherishes their right to Keep and Bear knows whack-job NY Democrat Carolyn McCarthy. She's the one who first ran for office in the 1996 elections on one single agenda item: Gun Control. She has sponsored and/or voted in favor of more anti-gun legislation than anyone in Congress. Indeed, even her own Wikipedia page has this to say about her: "McCarthy has been described as "the doyenne of anti-gun advocates in the House" and "the fiercest gun-control advocate in Congress"." In fact, it's really all she does and all she cares about. Her biggest boasts back when she ran were about how she was going to hold every American gun owner accountable for the bad acts of a very few criminals who possess and use guns illegally.

Well apparently accountability and personal responsibility come to a screeching halt at her own front door. After being an avid cigarette smoker for over four decades, Rep. McCarthy finds herself dealing with the spectre of lung cancer first-hand. So what does she do? Does she quit smoking? Nope. She (are you ready for this?) has her lawyers draw up a lawsuit against seventy different companies that deal with or once dealt with asbestos.

Politician with cancer smoked for 40 years, sues over asbestos

Just wow. This chain-smoking paragon of personal responsibility is trying to score big bucks from seventy different companies over asbestos exposure even though she herself has never worked around or been exposed to asbestos. Because it can't be from all the cigarettes, right?

I guess it's easier for her to blame all those other people for her personal problem than it is to look in the mirror and blame herself and her own behavior.

This says a heck of a lot about where our proposed gun control laws come from, doesn't it? If you've ever wondered about the thought processes and the logical ability of gun-controllers in Congress, you need look no further than Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, the gun-banners' poster woman. Divorced from reality and devoid of any sense of personal responsibility? You betcha. Allowed to write and vote on laws that control you and me even though it's obvious that she's a few fries short of a Happy Meal? Sadly so.

Kill your kid and get paid? Elizabeth Derkosh is trying.

Anyone remember Elizabeth Derkosh, the half-wit who propped her two year old son up on the edge of a wild dog pen at the Pittsburgh Zoo and then accidentally dropped him in? Well as it turns out, she' now trying to sue the zoo for a big bag of cash, claiming that somehow the zoo is responsible for her blatant act of stupidity and should pay her money for it.

Mother of a toddler fatally mauled by African dogs is to blame and shouldn’t be allowed to sue: zoo


Sorry, but the only stupid thing that the zoo did here was let her buy a ticket that day. I agree with the zoo 100% in that when someone does something so unbelievably careless or stupid as to shock the conscience of every reasonable person in the world, they should be cut off from suing others, especially others who were not unbelievably stupid or careless. All the zoo did here was provide a place where people could visit and watch exotic animals. They provided an enclosure for said animals that was designed to keep people of average intelligence out, and it's really not reasonable to anticipate that some idiot would plunk her toddler down on the edge of the enclosure and then lose her grip on the kid. The zoo did their part, and according to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums that certifies and accredits zoos, their enclosures exceed the required safety standards. Clearly though, if you try to make something idiot-proof, a better idiot will always show up. Derkosh is proof of this theory and should not get paid a cent. Her and her husband are seeking a jury trial on this issue though. I'm so bugged about it that I may just move to Pittsburgh for no reason other than to get into the jury pool. Not surprisingly, I'm backing the zoo. It's my opinion that she is solely to blame here and should not be allowed to profit from her negligence. I also think that her sleazy ambulance-chasing lawyer, Robert Mongeluzzi, should be sanctioned and kicked in the junk for even thinking about bringing this suit. And if Derkosh has any more kids, I sincerely hope that she never takes them to Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon.

This sort of thing really frosts me.

Elitist Liberal Professor and Left-Wing Activist makes a Federal Case over her DUI Arrest.

OK, here we go.

Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk, an art history professor at the University of North Carolina, got nailed for DUI in May of 2011 when a firefighter spotted her apparently in distress behind the wheel of her car and checked on her. Realizing that she was drunk, he told her not to drive but either because she feared the consequences of the police arriving or because she believes that she's better and smarter than everyone else, she sped away from him. He called the police, who subsequently located her and arrested her for driving while drunk as a rock ape.

According to court documents, Shatley was on his way to a fire scene the night of May 27, 2011, when he saw Verkerk’s Mercedes stopped in an intersection. He noticed that the headlights were off and that the interior and auxiliary lights were lit and that the driver’s side window was partially opened despite a pouring rain. Shatley continued to his destination where he was no longer needed, and headed back to the firehouse.
On the way back, Shatley claims he pulled up behind Verkerk’s car as she was driving with a hazard light on and was weaving while driving much slower than the speed limit. Shatley told the driver of the firetruck to turn on the lights and siren to prevent other cars from passing.
Verkerk’s car then swerved to the right and hit the curb before coming to a stop, according to the documents.
Shatley hopped out of the fire truck and approached her car to see if she was ok. He did not ask if she was drunk but did urge her to park her car and have someone pick her up, according to documents. She told Shatley that she would, but then drove off. She was picked up by Chapel Hill Police 10 minutes later and charged with driving while impaired and had her license taken away.

Now most people would just accept that they'd screwed up and let it go. But not Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk. No way. It apparently doesn't matter to her that she drove drunk and endangered everyone else on the road that night, or that her conduct broke the laws of her community and much of America. Nope. Three years later she's still working on a lawsuit designed to attack those responsible for her arrest--herself excluded, naturally--and she's wasted a considerable amount of the courts' time and taxpayers' money in the process.

This is the difference between Liberals and Americans, folks. Americans have an inbred sense of Honor and Integrity and Americans stand up and accept responsibility for their actions. It's what John Wayne would have done. But Liberals? Nope. They lie, they run away, they slander those who dare point our their wrongs, and when all else fails, they sue everyone in sight.

And this is why I hate Liberals and would only brake if one walked in front of my car out of concern for how much damage my vehicle would sustain.

This cow's case needs to be tossed out of court ASAP and she and her lawyer need to be fined the cost of dealing with it. Then she needs to be run out of both the university and the town. But as leftist as Chapel Hill is, that's not going to happen. It could only happen in America, and Chapel Hill, like Berkeley, Boulder and Ann Arbor, is far to liberal to ever be mistaken for a legitimate part of America.

Kids today (sigh...)

In today's "Frivolous Lawsuit" section, we have the case of Megan Thode, a girl just starting out in life who nonetheless takes with her a reputation as a whiner and a daddy's girl which, in this internet generation, may well follow her for decades to come.

Megan was a student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. She was there seeking a master's in counseling and human services, a program that would have conferred upon her a license as a professional counselor had she completed the coursework satisfactorily. But alas, little Megan did not perform satisfactorily in one of her classes, earning only a C+ in a course that required a B to move on to the next level. Per her evaluation, she was unprofessional, swore in class, and at one point had an "outburst in which she began crying".

Now in my day (and most of yours, I suspect), the student would have met with the course advisers and worked out a plan for improving the student's performance, then repeated the course as necessary. But not poor little Megan. You see, Megan Thode is a special snowflake who deserves to graduate no matter what, so Megan showed up for her meeting with the faculty advisers, daddy in tow, and demanded to know not what she had to do better, but to be given a higher grade, a written apology from the teacher, and financial compensation from the school for not passing her as was her right.

Lehigh University student sues over grade, seeks $1.3 million

Oh, and did I mention that despite all of the fuss, Megan isn't even paying for her schooling? You see, her daddy is a professor there, so Megan was going to school tuition-free, both through undergrad and grad school, and the university was also providing her with jobs, which they continued to do even after she filed her lawsuit.

The lawsuit, by the way, seeks 1.3 million dollars, which is what Megan feels she would have earned over and above her present salary had she not then quit the program that she'd been in and taken another free masters degree in a related social worker field.

Now not only does Megan need and deserve a swift kick in the ass from the Boot of reality, her father, Lehigh finance professor Stephen Thode, and her scum-sucking shyster lawyer Richard J. Orloski, deserve one, too. In a perfect world, the three of them would constitute the night shift at the local McDonalds until they learned to appreciate actually earning their way through life instead of just leeching and sponging off of the producers and taxpayers.

I want my professional license NOW, Daddy!

Ex-Pennsylvania Trooper claims he was fired for using "ebonics".

You can't make this sort of stuff up.

Ex-Pennsylvania state trooper claims he was fired over Ebonics


Let's see...

During his probationary period, he wrote reports poorly, sometimes using "ebonics".
(Ebonics, for those not familiar, is the sort of lazy grammar/slang that uneducated people, mostly black, use when they want to set themselves apart from everyone else. Many take pride in sounding like fools and it's not uncommon for better-educated black youths to be bullied for not talking like this in some urban areas.)
He also demonstrated a "lack of solid job knowledge and basic police skills" and other "officer/public safety concerns".

Reading between the lines, he was a train wreck who was unable to do the job to such a degree that the state chose to cut it's losses and fire him instead of trying to continue remediating him. And it appears that they worked with him for 18 months, right up until the end of his probation, at which point they'd have had to keep him forever if they didn't terminate him.

As expected, he's suing, claiming, among other things, that being fired for not being up to the job was embarrassing. Not only does he want his job back with back pay, but damages as well. And of course he's saying that he was fired because he's black.

My answer would be that he was probably hired because he was black, but fired because he was incompetent.

Burglar killed by "warning shot", three co-burglars charged with her murder.

Alabama doesn't screw around.

I've missed this one until today. Apparently back in April, a teen burglary ring was working the fishing camps on Gravine Island as well as other businesses and residences in and around Baldwin County, Alabama. On April 15th, at 4AM, they were spotted by some neighbors who fired a couple of "warning shots" well away from the three burglars that they could see to scare them off. (The teens were also armed with a rifle, a pistol and a knife, per police investigators.) By sheer dumb luck, one of those shots hit a fourth burglar, Summer Moody, who was hiding in some bushes. The shooters rendered aid for her as best they could once they realized that she'd been hit but she died ten days later from her injuries. The Baldwin County District Attorney submitted the case to a Grand Jury and obtained felony murder indictments against the three surviving burglars under the doctrine that co-conspirators in a crime where a death occurs are held to be responsible for that death. The DA also decided not to charge the shooters as there was no intent to cause harm with the warning shots. Predictably, the family and friends of the dirtbag burglars are livid and their attorney has filed a lawsuit against the three shooters, the local police chief (who wasn't there), and the owner of the cabin that the punks were burglarizing. (He also wasn't there.)

All the stories that you could ever want about this case are compiled here:

Gravine Island Felony Murder case article compilation.

Personally, while I sympathize with the family of Summer Moody to an extent, I have to note that their daughter was engaged in a felony burglary with her boyfriend and his pals. That being the case, I don't think that these people should get a pay day out of raising a little thugette and turning her loose on the community. In a perfect world, there would be no lawsuits allowed by a plaintiff or their family in a case where the plaintiff is injured or dies as a result of criminal activity that they were engaged in.

Now this case should also stand as yet another example of why we don't fire warning shots in a self-defense situation. In a self-defense situation, you are allowed to use deadly force when you reasonably believe that your life or that of another is in immediate danger. That means that you shoot to stop the threat. If you just shoot into the air or the ground, what you're saying is "I didn't really feel quite that threatened yet." By doing so, you just negated your own legal justification for using the force at all. Many people have gone to jail for making that mistake. Part of defending yourself with a firearm is knowing and following the laws in your jurisdiction, and most jurisdictions today do not allow warning shots.

Fortunately for these three men, Alabama's laws are a bit more lax than most states when it comes to using deadly force. However they're now facing a million-dollar civil lawsuit. I wish them well, and I also hope that the three teens charged get convicted and pull down three nice Alabama-style prison sentences, the kind that see them behind bars for a long time.

Another stupid lawsuit coming down

Two years ago to the day, Delvonte Tisdale dropped into a Boston suburban neighborhood...literally. The sixteen year old teen, a runaway, had apparently hid inside the wheel well of a Baltimore-bound jet prior to it's take-off from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina.

In retrospect, that probably wasn't a very good idea. Either due to the cold temperatures and lack of oxygen at 30,000 feet or the crushing action of the landing gear as it folded up into the well, young Delvonte failed to survive this trip and fell from the aircraft as it lowered it's gear prior to landing in Boston, dropping several thousand feet and landing on a street below. Darwin shoots, Darwin scores.

Well now Delvonte's father has decided that he should be rich. He's filed a lawsuit naming the airport, the airline (United Airways) and the city of Charlotte itself, arguing that they all owed him a duty to keep his son out of that aircraft's wheel well.

Sorry, no sympathy here. The cost of being stupid can be prohibitively high sometimes, but that doesn't mean that those left behind by the fatally stupid are supposed to get paid enough cash to live a life of luxury forevermore. In a fair and just world, this kid's father would be paying to clean the street and apologizing to the airline for any inconvenience caused by his failure to keep control of his own kid in the first place. I mean, if you're going to blame an airport for the kid's presence on an aircraft, how about putting the blame on the parent who let the kid out of his sight in the first place?

Rebecca Kessler shows how 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

So Kevin Hirsch, a lawyer, offers to sit on his phone all day and get other people qualified for a game show in exchange for some of any potential winnings. (His practice must really be doing well if that's all he can find to do during business hours, eh?) Rebecca Kesler, another lawyer, agrees. Due to Hirsch's efforts, she gets on the show and wins some cash, but then welshes on the agreement. As usual when lawyers are involved, litigation ensues. Lots of it. Eventually even the judge gets pissed. Sanctions follow.

Game show brouhaha ties up courts, costs lawyers friendship

This is why it takes so long for regular people with actual cases to get before a judge--idiots like these two are frequently wasting tons of the court's time.
In this case, the judge comes right out and calls Kesler both a liar and incompetent.

Judge David Parrott, who has presided over the case since its beginning in 2009, lost his temper in July after Kesler made what he considered yet another faulty legal argument.

"Your argument is frivolous — again," Parrott yelled. "It is devoid of all arguable legal merit. I can't believe you are that monumentally incompetent. I've had it with you."

The judge goes on to say:

"I find the defendant's position so incredible that no juror would accept it as true," he said.

Ouch. That's a professional opinion that every lawyer wants on their CV, right?

Finally the first lawyer wins a judgement but Kesler colludes with her husband to hide all of her assets in his name to keep from paying. And she continues to request more court hearings. Ethical much? Who would ever consider hiring a lawyer like Rebecca Kesler? After reading this, I would not hire this woman if I was stranded on a desert island and she had a boat.

Loser sues gun range over "Ladies Day" promotion

And by "Loser", I mean fat-assed security guard and cop-wanna-be Derrick Hunter, who just filed a $200,000 lawsuit against Maryland Small Arms because the range let women come in and shoot for free on the day that he showed up and had to pay the standard $15.00.

Derrick Hunter sues Maryland Small Arms Range over 'Ladies' Day" promotion

Oh, and his lawyer? James "Jimmy" Bell filed a suit like this a couple of years ago himself when a nail salon charged him $2.00 more than they charged a woman. Now aside from the fact that he's a sleazy shake-down artist who abuses the court system to try to extort settlement offers from businesses, I have to publicly question the masculinity of ANY male who goes to a nail salon and gets his nails done.

But as for Derrick Hunter, I don't consider him much of a man, either. Any time that a security guard refers to him/herself as a "Special Police Officer" (because that's how the District of Columbia still classifies them) instead of just looking sheepish and saying "yeah, I'm just a security guard..." I summarily dismiss them as a pathetic Mall Ninja. Heck, dude's probably just butt-hurt because none of these women would give him so much as a pity-date.

In any event, I hope that Maryland Small Arms, which is a pretty class place, exercises their right to do business with anyone and bars Paul Blart Derrick Hunter AND his cheap lawyer from the premises for good. I also salute Maryland Small Arms for it's efforts to bring more women into the shooting sports.

It begins. First Colorado shooting lawsuit...filed by an UNINJURED person.

Here we go, folks.

Some loser named Torrence Brown Jr. who was reportedly at the theater that got shot up in Colorado last week has found an ambulance-chasing shyster in California by the name of Donald Karpel and together they're bringing suit against the theater chain, the movie studio that made the Dark Knight Rises movie, and any doctors that they can identify as having treated the shooter for anything.

CO shooting survivor threatens to sue studio, theater

In other words, it's a shotgun play suing anyone and everyone who might have some money on the chance that one or more parties will offer a settlement to get them to go away. It's scummy, it's appalling, and it's a preferred tactic of the modern-day nutless man and the Trial Lawyers Association.

Making this one all the more disgusting is the fact that Brown wasn't even injured. He ran out of the theater and didn't even suffer a scratch, but now he's claiming that he's "traumatized".

Hell, that's nothing that a few dozen good swift kicks in the junk won't cure. And as his lawyer, Karpel is entitled to every third kick in his junk. Oh, and Karpel should be sanctioned for bringing an obviously frivolous lawsuit. This is a punishment that bad lawyers are supposed to get but seldom if ever do, mainly because they are overseen by other lawyers.

Thanks to Borepatch for the punishment idea.

Finally some judicial common sense as frivolous lawsuit is thrown out.

So rare that it actually makes the news.

Judge Dismisses Wrongful Death Suit Against Staples Center

This case centers around a toddler, 2 years old, who fell more than 30 feet from an open skybox at the Staple Center in Los Angeles after his mom propped him up in front of the railing then stepped back to take pictures of him.

Let me say right here that I feel bad for the death of the child, and the parents have my sympathy for that loss, but in no way in this universe do they deserve a big, fat paycheck as a reward for their own negligence in setting the child on the edge of that fatal drop and moving away from him. And the court agreed, stating that there wasno negligence on the part of the defendant, Staples Center, or their architect, who was also named.

"The court finds that the defendants did not owe a duty to the plaintiffs to properly supervise Lucas to prevent him from falling from the luxury box suite," Bryant-Deason wrote in a two-page ruling. "The court finds that it was not foreseeable that Mr. Tang and Ms. Nguyen would place Lucas in an openly and obviously dangerous situation by putting him on top of the beverage bar where it was easily foreseeable the he could climb over the tempered glass and fall."

The judge also said the couple's lawyers did not show how anything arena officials did or failed to do caused the boy's fall.

No, there was no negligence by the Staples Center. This was a tragic incident to be sure, but it doesn't warrant millions of dollars and a subsequent life of luxury for the parents who did cause it. If anything, I think that justice and equity would dictate that the parents spend one day a week lecturing new parents on child safety for the next 18 years. But that's probably why I'm not a judge.

Naturally, as per later news stories, their scumbag lawyer promises an appeal. He wants his share of that life of luxury.

Suing a kid? Seriously?

And this is why people hate lawyers and call for tort reform.

New Jersey woman sues kid after getting hit by baseball at little league game.

OK, so getting hit with a ball sucks, but $500,000? It doesn't hurt that much, lady. And the husband joining in, essentially claiming that his wife isn't as much fun in bed anymore, is just as ridiculous.

The end result is that the kid and his family suffers, and they have to pay even to defend themselves against this abortion of a lawsuit--thousands of dollars that they won't get back even if they prevail.

In my opinion, Elizabeth Lloyd, her husband, and their scumbag shyster lawyer Riaz A. Mian all need to be staked out in front of a pitching machine fr a few hours. And I'll be only too happy to keep feeding it quarters.