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1. In 1991, Richard Overton filed in court at a major brewing company Anheuser-Busch, in the amount of ten thousand dollars. He claimed that experienced mental suffering and financial losses from the fact that how many would he not drink beer, his fantasy of beauty in bikini on a tropical beach and not translated into life, although it is this advertising and lure him to buy beer Bud Light. His claim was rejected.

Ten most ridiculous lawsuits in the history of jurisprudence

2. In 1995, Robert Lee Brock has itself sued for 5 million dollars. He accused himself that violated his own civil rights and religious principles, allowing a drunk and commit a burglary that led to further his 23 years in prison in correctional colony of Virginia. As he had hoped to get in the end? Since imprisonment did not give him opportunities to earn income, he expected the commitments to meet this claim should accrue to the state. The court rejected the case.

3. In 1996 the family filed a lawsuit on Baers Oliver Stone, Warner Brothers Pictures and others involved in creating and distributing the film “Prirozhdennye murderers.” Filmmakers charged that the viewing of the film Sarah Edmondson and Bedzhaminom Derrusom led them to a series of robberies, during one of whom they have Petsi En Baers. After the wounded girl remained paralysed below the belt. Originally the 1995 lawsuit was filed against Edmondson and Derriusa, a film crew was attached to it only in 1996. Claim to cinematographers was terminated in 2001.

4. In 2000, Peters tried Klinti otsudit 15 thousand dollars from Universal Studios. Clint accused the studio that when visiting the attraction “to bring home Halloween Horror Nights”, she experienced excessive fear, mental suffering and emotional trauma.

5. In 2001, Linda Sanders and other family members of victims of school shooting in Columbine High School filed in court by 25 companies producing films and video games at a cost of 5 billion dollars. As prosecutors said, without such films as “Diary of basketball and video games Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Mech Warrior, Wolfenstein, Redneck Rampage, Final Fantasy, Nightmare Creatures, Battle at the school would not have, and hence part of the blame for the death of family members Prosecutors rested with producers and distributors of these products. According to the decision of the court case was closed, prosecutors and court costs required to compensate incurred by the film and gaming companies.

6. In 2002, Edward Brewer tried otsudit at Providence Hospital city of two million dollars. He accused the administration that because of their negligence, nothing prevented him to rape one of the hospital patients. The court held that the brunt of responsibility for penalties incurred Brewer, rests solely on his conscience, allow him to commit the crime, and the law does not oblige the hospital to protect Bryuera of them made a choice.

7. In 2003, Andrew Burnett sued by Sarah MakBarnett and San Jose Mercury News, demanding compensation for moral received trauma and post-syndrome. Burnett presented the suit while serving 3 years imprisonment for having killed the defendant’s dog, throwing it in anger to proceed under the wheels of the car. The killing of dogs in his testimony, brought him mental suffering. The court refused to consider the case.

8. In 2005, the American Association of recording companies (RIAA) filed a lawsuit on Gertrude Walton, who died the year before at the age of 83 years, even after the notification and copies of death certificates. The Association claimed that Watson illegally downloaded and distributed on the network of more than 700 songs. According to the daughter of the accused, at that never had a computer. Though Association and abandon this claim, but it was only one of 20 thousand similar filed Association since 2003. While some of these claims are legally proven cases of intellectual piracy, among the defendants also proved twelve-old girl whose parents were forced recording companies to recover two million dollars, as well as families, in homes where there has never been computers. The defendants may be ordered to pay the RIAA in favour to 150 thousand dollars for a song.

9. In 2005, Austin Eytkin filed in court on NBC, the amount of the claim amounted to two and a half million dollars. In his testimony one of the episodes of “fear factor” brought him “tavmu, suffering and pain.” He argued that TV demonstration of how the contestants eat rats, brought it to the dizziness and nausea. The judge found this claim absurd and denied it.

10. In 2006, Allen sued Hekard Michael Dzhordanu basketball and Nike founder Knight Filho, demanding 832 million dollars in compensation. Hekard said that was subjected to defamation, moral experienced trauma, pain and suffering is a consequence of the fact that people took him for his widely razreklamirovannuyu basketball star. The following year Hekard waived its claim.