Digital Journal: “Hulk Hogan is back in federal court in Florida, this time over a cartoon commercial. Hulk claims his reputation was harmed in a Cocoa Pebbles ad featuring Bamm-Bamm tossing ” Hulk Boulder” into the air and winning the match.”
Freep.com: “A Western Michigan University student is giving a Kalamazoo towing company a costly lesson in customer service and the power of the Internet. After getting nowhere with the company and paying $118 to get his car back, Kurtz created a Facebook page, “Kalamazoo Residents Against T&J Towing,” which has attracted more than 11,000 members since February, many with similar complaints about the company.”
Since creating the Facebook page: (1) T&J sued the young student for $750,000 for slander and libel, (2) the student counter-sued T&J, (3) T&J lost one half of its commercial accounts, (4) the student’s lawyers are considering adding a class action lawsuit after the student’s Facebook page “found” many other people who claimed to have been harmed by T&J.
“Suing an angry college student with 11,000 followers is ‘like dousing dry sticks with kerosene and lighting a match’ . . . .”
Los Angeles Times: “Johnny Anderson, owner of Yer Cheat’n Heart tattoo parlor in Gardena, . . . request to open a parlor in Hermosa Beach was denied on grounds that zoning laws don’t allow tattooing anywhere in the city. He sued in federal court in Los Angeles, alleging suppression of his 1st Amendment right to impart artistic expression on customers’ bodies.”
Law.com: “Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. was slammed with $250 million in punitive damages . . . in the largest-ever award in a gender bias case. . . . [Novartis is] liable for discrimination against women employees in pay, promotion and pregnancy policies.”
Wall St. Journal: “Hooters was sued today