Lawsuit Facts Generator

• [Lawsuit fact 1] A man was hit by a Metro train going 70mph and his flying body parts injured a woman. She sued his estate on the theory that “If you do something as stupid as this guy did, you have to be responsible for what comes from it.” She won.

  Death, Disaster, Lawsuitsource

• [Lawsuit fact 2] In 1985, John Fogarty was sued by Fantasy Records for copyright infringement because his song (the 1984 hit “The Old Man Down The Road”) sounded too much like CCR’s 1970’s hit “Run Through The Jungle”, a song that Fogarty wrote and produced. The case cost him $1.1 million in legal fees. He pushed it to the Supreme Court to fight the double standard of defendants not being awarded the fees and won, setting a precedent that defends artists from corporate sabotage.

  Lawsuit, Music, Peoplesource

• [Lawsuit fact 3] In 2010, a law student filed a lawsuit against an attorney that made a public offer on Dateline to give $1 million to anyone who could cover the distance between Jackson Airport and a hotel (where 4 people were murdered) in less than 30 minutes. The student did it in 19 minutes, but the attorney refused to pay up.

  Lawsuitsource

• [Lawsuit fact 4] A German student was sued for $3,772 by his alma mater for earning his bachelor’s and master’s “too fast”. Both degrees usually take 11 semesters, but Marcel Pohl graduated in 2. He went to one class while having 2 friends share notes from other classes he was enrolled in at the same time.

  Education, Lawsuitsource

• [Lawsuit fact 5] In 2013, Federal District Court in San Francisco dismissed a lawsuit from Dairy Farmers to rename Almond Milk to "Nut Juice" for false advertising since "Nuts don't Lactate" It was rejected as "No reasonable consumer would mistake a product like soy milk or almond milk with dairy milk from a cow.”

  Food, Lawsuitsource

• [Lawsuit fact 6] In Renaissance France, a woman could take her husband to court if he was impotent. Because marriage was created by the church in part as a means for procreation, to be unable to “uphold your end of the bargain” was considered a form of fraud.

  Lawsuit, Relationshipsource

• [Lawsuit fact 7] In 1977, singer Tom Waits was arrested outside a coffee shop for trying to stop men from bullying other patrons. These men were plainclothes officers, and Waits was charged with disturbing the peace. Waits disputed the charge, was found not guilty, and successfully sued the police dept. for $7,500

  Lawsuit, Musicsource

• [Lawsuit fact 8] Volkswagen was sued by Czechoslovakian car maker Tatra before World War 2 because the original Beetle was so similar to the Tatra T97. After Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 the lawsuit was canceled by the Nazis.

  Corporation, Countries, Lawsuit, Nazisource

• [Lawsuit fact 9] When the present King of Thailand Vajiralongkorn sued his first wife for divorce, she was unable to defend herself in court because of a law forbidding criticism of the King.

  Lawsuit, Monarchsource

• [Lawsuit fact 10] A federal court in California ruled in 2016 that a lawsuit against Facebook can proceed. The suit claims Facebook is illegally collecting biometric data from people "tagged" in photos posted by other users.

  Lawsuit, Mediasource

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