The Most Frivolous Lawsuits Ever 

It's far from frivolous...

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That cup of coffee burnt the SHIT out of her thighs. No way that was just a "little too hot"

@@MastaDJMax yea their coffee caused literal 3rd degree burns, definitely unreasonably hot

It's a shame that the smear campaign that McDonalds did over that case is all people can remember and refer back to. My goodness, that poor woman was dragged through the mud after all she already endured.

I think the guy in India who sued his parents for giving birth to him without his consent takes the cake for frivolous lawsuits.

@@caferune6355 I think that was more to send a message than to actually get money from his parents. It's similar to the guy in this video who sued bud light.

I'm sure he would have had better luck with the sorts of people who can manufacture up fake ids and identities.

@@takatamiyagawa5688 probably not. He's a has-been celebrity whose name at least is well known around the country.

Something tells me the judge just wanted to cause trauma to the real victim.

What a bish, id be happy if my neighbours left me cookies.

@@ruzahel6287 i mean...i'd have to have seeen them walking off the property then i'd be thrilled about the cookies

I mean, it's valid. I'm friendly, but I'll never appreciate somebody making such (even if good-hearted) pranks. Anxiety is bad and she could've sued for more.

@@mariafilip6731 so, should a UPS (or whatever delivery service) driver be sued if they actually ring the bell when they drop the package just because they didn't respond to being asked who they are. After all, it's the same situation, something is dropped off for the home owner and the person leaves immediately. If you have that much worry about potential robbers, leave the door locked and call the police. And yeah, I personally wouldn't eat random cookies left at my door if I didn't know who left them. But if you're that overly paranoid and panic over any knock at the door you should seek medical help for it.

@@mariafilip6731 It wasn't a prank. The girls said they thought they were doing an act of kindness, didn't know about her health condition, apologized, and offered to pay the women's medical expenses.Those were home-made cookies and they delivered them to the homes of other neighbors who didn't have a problem with the act.

Forreal, I already complained too much about it ;-;

You can People have actually done so already It won't matter though, they are in their rights to do it. I've seen a video somewhere explaining why, pretty sure it was on Game Theory

Most of those are chinese companies so pulling Them to court probably wont Work sadly

Suggesting a frivolous lawsuit on a video about frivolous lawsuits lmao I hate the deception as much as the next guy but "emotionally distressed" is not the angle - It's false advertising, plain and simple

@@bretthake7713 but you need to demonstrate damages from the false advertisement which would be emotional distress since most of these apps are free

Doctrix sounds awesome! Sounds like some Supervilain in the Marvel universe or something...

In Spanish it's Doctora, so if she wants that change made, she can always move to Spain.

Asterisk and Obelix is a fire cartoon idk what she was on

Dominatrix?

@@KnakuanaRkayep, similar root

Yep! I f only it worked, your honor I'm a terrible person I'm suing myself for giving myself a terrible life for 500 mil, but because of my poor decisions for myself I do not have the wealth and request the gov pay on my behalf! lol!

I think they mean paid from the taxes of citizens

Lol

Communism

R/madlads

I still say don't offer to pay 5 million to charity on a dare then renig when the dare is completed. Especially as someone with a net worth of $140 million. That'd be like me betting $1000 to charity then never paying up, shitty. And on national TV nonetheless, that's that punk sh!t

I don't think the Birth Certificate proved anything. Maher should have demanded a DNA test.

@@stephentorrey8727 bill mahr is jerk but it was very clearly satire to mark the claims Donald trump made. Which I'm pretty sure trump never followed through on either

@@stephentorrey8727 It should have somehow been related to exposing tax returns instead.

@@stephentorrey8727 snowflake

Depending on how old you are, I assume some back-pay will be in order! Edit: or rather, how old you will be? No.. How old you will have had to have been having not been how old you are now that you have had your legitimate age correctly attributed and documented. Or else having had have hadn’t been corrected.

@@dpearson80808 what

This should be pinned 😭😭😭

@@dpearson80808 r/ihadastroke

I Identify as a 70 year old bi man

Isn't that whole idea why Joe Camel is no longer a thing for Camel cigarettes? I could imagine the Budweiser Frogs being slapped down for it too. Talking frogs appealing to kids. And no more alcohol or smoking commercials during kids' cartoons times as well.

It's a good and nobel cause but it went the wrong way about it

@Terahnee yeah all the old adverts that used to use anthropomorphic animals selling alcohol or tobacco (possibly other things that are adult or hazardous to one's health) got banned to avoid 'enticing children'. Which probably wasn't a bad thing, but as an adult now who grew up with spuds and the budwiser frogs, I am kinda bummed (I'm glad the Clydesdales still pop up occasionally, though that's an entirely different ethical mire)

@@bellablue5285 as a person who grew up around STL I love the Busch family because they own so much of the city, including having their horses kept right near the zoo that they have generously donated to

It's been a thing in Europe for decades. I was born in 1992 in Finland and have never seen tobacco or hard liquor commercials on TV. Beer commercials used to be allowed after 22:00 or something like that, but even that was removed some decade ago. Now they've even gotten on the ridiculous end that even trucks transtporting alcohol and factories making it can't have labels of alcoholic drinks on them. So now we have non alcoholic versions being advertised with similar labels, with 0,0% tagged on them somewhere 😂

Yuck, talk about exaggerated sense of entitlement.

Smith52 All he had to do was become a rich celeb and tell everyone a false birth year. Or simply get filthy rich. Younger gold diggers would be all over him. Problem solved.

A very experienced mental health professional once told me that women in their fifties struggle to find men their age to date because the number of average older men that are after women in their thirties is very large. Unless they look like George Clooney or have enough money to attract a gold digger they are being really unrealistic.

As a young male, I also don't get any tinder swipes. It's not age discrimination haha.

@@653j521 that man is rich... and a celeb. Every Dutch person knows him or of him.

That's neat, What does the Spanish Judiciary uses for the system of Trial? I reckon most Nations that follows Trial by Judges (the case is decided by a Panel of Judges instead of a Panel of Jury) and uses Napoleonic Codes, Prussian Law code or Roman Law codes have some sort of "Assessment panel" for filed cases before said case is presented for public hearing. It's a thing in Indonesia, where we use Dutch Law code, a Modified version of Napoleonic code with emphasis in Civil laws with Trial by Judges system. iirc The Plaintiff need to be assessed for intent first when both Parties conducting Discoveries and then evidences, should the intent is deemed by common law and the court to be valid, then the Case can proceed with the court issuing a panel of Judges for Public hearing. If not, the Court can reject the case for Hearing with the base of inappropriate filing of case or something like that

​@@aribantala almost all of continental Europe, France, Spain, Italy and Germany for example, were conquered by Napoleon and therefore use a modern version of the Napoleonic code. The legal system in continental Europe is basically built on roman/french basis one could say.

US courts can also reject any lawsuits if it has bad or no basis. I know many times they take this types of lawsuits to set some sort of precedence.

@@nicoladonelli7121 I am totally aware of that 😄 Some part of Europe uses Jury based Trials. I am not really can pinpoint which besides the Obvious Anglo-Saxon code based UK. Although I am not particularly aware that Germany uses Napoleonic code, instead they use Prussian code for Civil law, or is it a combination?

@@Nexus9118 And yet a judge can just ruin ppl's lives over his pants that where only delivered to the wrong place. Cause that's reasonable. The American justice system enabels those whit means to destroy those without. It's the opposite of justice.

He said he was "denied dates". What an incel.

The guy is rather well known here in the Netherlands, and let's just say he's, uhm, eccentric...

Just sayin, gum job man.... don't knock it till ya try it.

@@rjfaber1991 I don't think I've ever heard one Dutch person say one positive thing about Ratelband. All I really knew him from was that whole "TSJAKKAAAA!!" thing

@@gaiusjuliuspleaser Are you telling me you didn't know he once bought a Ferrari, not to drive it but to put it inside his office for 'motivational' purposes?

I feel like that if inmates have nothing better to do than file lawsuits in their free time, there’s an issue. Of course, as a guard, you had nothing to do with that being the case.

@@gavinbrown216 My thoughts exactly, I would probably do similar. Everyone with their life essentially frozen has literally nothing better to do anyway. I'm sure the people in on drug charges who watch rapists come in and out on a third of their sentence go especially insane...

Wow, that’s just crazy

Pretty sure there’s more to #2. Like, idk, how we literally feed them food not meant for people??? Instead of bitching about how inconvenient inmates are to you and choosing the examples that make them look bad, how about wondering why they file lawsuits. Why they have sooo much time. And start being honest about real problems in prisons.

@@allisoncastle I wasn't bitching, but I can if you want me to. I can bitch about the problems in prisons. About how CO's are understaffed, overworked, and underpaid. I can bitch about not knowing who to trust because some of your coworkers have been bought out by inmates. I can bitch about having a ceiling cave in on me because the institution hasn't been maintained in thirty years. I can bitch about a coworker getting raped while trying to do her job and the inmates responsible getting the equivalent of a slap on the wrist. I can bitch about how inmates tried to KILL me TWICE, once because I confiscated a bag of homemade alcohol and once because I spurned his advances. But no, let's talk about what you think prison problems are. And for the record, the food was bland, not inedible. This is encouraged by the kitchen shift leads (who are inmates, btw). The more tasteless the food, the smaller portions the inmates take, the longer the supplies last.

I can see it now: "Come on! You gotta believe! FEEL IT!!!" 🤣

They won’t even interview anyone with 30 years experience.

​@@geoffstricklerYeah, because if you actually have the required amount of experience you are "too old" lol

yea. I think that's the worst part of the US legal system: If a lawsuit can ruin you even if it is frivolous and you win, then there's something seriously wrong with the legal system... I get the impression the US lawmakers either didn't think of or didn't care about the consequences of that system.

I'm really surprised that's not the case, I just assumed it was something so obvious every judiciary system in the world would do that.

@@Bird_Dog00 I'd suspect, in fact, that they consider it a feature, not a bug: an important part of the class system maintenance toolkit. Though likely a happy accident rather than deliberately put in, I think.

@@robertmiller9735 You may very well have a point there. Kinda sad, but...

Part of the problem is that lawyers are not a government service and can ask for any amount of money they want. People are already terrified of going up against big corporations in legal battles, if they then would have to fit the bill for there triple digit an hour lawyers upon loss, nobody would even try. That being said I still would like to see a minimum compensation implemented, even though realistically this would never completely payoff all of the legal fees.

Genius

That sounds like Cartman v.The World lol

You have to admit, it's a novel way to plead insanity.

On the topic of that case though, 23 years for breaking and entering and theft is surprisingly long, considering these days people get much lighter sentences for murder. Especially when alcohol was involved, generally makes them get even lighter senteces for being impaired.

It's not genius. If he's a ward of the state, that means the state would get the money too - you know because they're the ones responsible for him.

The sense I get is that his motives were sensible, but his methods were totally absurd. The specific claims of the case were nonsense. But he had nothing else to go on, as what he was complaining about - that these ads cause societal harm - have no legal standing. If that could have legal standing, so many companies would be rightfully sued into bankruptcy.

The difference is alcohol is not an absolute health detriment. Smoking is. With the exception of one random case study that notices that smokers appear to be less likely to have colitis, smoking harms your health in every aspect. Furthermore, alcohol is not inherently addictive. The feeling and high can be addictive, but not in an absolute sense as nicotine does which has had decades of proven research. It's important to make that distinction. Because ignorance is not a valid excuse to bar a product from marketing. The smoking industry actually does require strict regulation because they purposely advertise government bills as good when its lobbying for further cigarette sales. Besides, advertisements all have the health disclosures and it is also included in the product label itself. If you don't know about what you're putting into your body, its because you make no effort whatsoever to check the information yourself or don't care until you actually feel the effects. So no, no point made. If you feel lied to, its because common sense has alluded you. As the video says, it's well known. Also, why would you purposely make a bad advertisement? Sounds pretty stupid.

@@pluna3382 "Alcohol is not an absolute health detriment". Tell that to the anti saloon league...

The difference is that if you’ll notice, none of the ads ever talk about the taste or encourage you to drink. At the end, they always say “drink responsibly.” They’re also not allowed to use sports stars to promote alcohol (they only use retired athletes). And I’m pretty sure alcohol isn’t advertised at the times kids would be watching.

​@@pluna3382Alcohol is an absolute health detriment though. The studies showing that alcohol in moderation is healthier than no alcohol at all where completely biased, and can elaborate if you want me to.

The damage done since these lawsuites cost not only tax payers money but also legal fees for the defendants is the real damage.

Perhaps, but frivolous lawsuits are less problematic if they are not SLAPP suits. We should be changing the laws to ensure that SLAPP suits cant occur, while people still are not denied ease of ability to file lawsuits that at first may be considered frivolous but may alter establish a precedent.

That's basically the entire problem that patent scams exploit

The thing is, you don't. You can definitely just ignore it, show up in court without a dime paid, stand up and say "Lawsuit's frivolous." Just won't turn out well if the court disagrees.

That's basically the US legal system in a nutshell. If you stall the case longer than the other party can afford, either in money or time, you win.

And it took well over a decade for them to do something about it. Law license suspended for 90 days? Why not more like 20 years?

@@robertthomas5906 Oh, absolutely. I would have thought a judge filing a lawsuit that stupid would be laughed out of town by his own colleagues once word got out.

I hope you're using karen appropriately

Down to the thinly veiled racism.

ALL these suits are pretty much Karen-related. XD

You joke, but I remember hearing about a judge who got in trouble for not only being naked under his robes, but also playing with himself during trials.

@@dude37 That person was definitely using some poor judgement.

@@dude37 yeah...i remember that. The judge was playing with a penis pump at trial.

He was here for a fun career, not a long one.

@@dude37 same, but I hear it's more common for female judges and they get caught less by being quieter.

I would like to propose a bill to get this changed. Not for ALL I don’t think but for many. Certainly for proved frivolous (perhaps we can look at other countries verbiage to see if that would help)

The Defendants can overprice their prospective legal costs by a huge factor, then the legal team can write down their bill to a realistic one after the plaintiffs drop their lawsuit. Unfortunately, there is no good definition of “frivolous lawsuit” except, like Pr0n, you know it when you see it. The infamous MacDonald’s hot coffee served too hot lawsuit turns out to have had merit, as the cups were rated for much lower temperatures than at which the coffee was served.

@@Egilhelmson the hot coffee case even when looking at it face value doesn't look frivolous in the first place. It was the narrative of the big company that was negligent that framed it as a frivolous lawsuit in order to get the public on its side. The worst part is that it worked.

Because this is America and everything we do seems to be biased against the poor and middle class.

​@@gloomyblackfur399Yes

you're just "questioning", considering that implies you still have some hope there's some sanity still in there, that's very generous of you. lol

What is scary is the first one is a JUDGE.

What I want to know is why it took 13 years for him to be prohibited from practicing law for 90 days...

@@Faranya cuz court and cases take long, and because America

@@Faranya And also why it was only 90 days. I imagine he would be the laughing-stock of his entire district once word got out.

I like how Brad Stine once put it: "'Life, liberty, and the *pursuit* of happiness'. If you don't make it, it's your fault."

@@FriendlyFloyd7 : That's the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution goes back to John Locke's original trinity of life, liberty, and property (in the Due Process clauses of the 5th and 14th Amendments).

Not the law and not the Constitution. Legal Eagle screwed that up. It's the Declaration of Independence. Constitution is We the People and In order to form a more perfect Union.

@@megalocerus1573 : Leagle Eagle only said ‘life and liberty’, and those (along with property) are in the Constitution too. (The Fifth Amendment says that the feds cannot deprive us of them without due process, and the 14th Amendment says this of the States.)

It does make allowance for the "pursuit of happiness" which to me would seem to preclude limiting drug use or sexual activities. We are not guaranteed a good time... But we are guaranteed the right to chase a good time.

Rise up Warriors of Nod!

Haha. No way. That's funny

😂😂😂

Not helping your case, dude.

How has he never been named a vexatious litigant and sanctioned?

How much was he claiming on the show? Millions is obviously ridiculous but if a dry cleaner misplaced an expensive pair of trousers and refused to refund me I certainly wouldn't be happy..

i am friends with the actor who played the plaintiff. Mr Wiggins.

"This verdict is written on a cocktail napkin! And it still says guilty! And guilty is *spelled wrong* !"

@@pridelander06 I was going to say this!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

"He's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog" "Well, replace the word kinda with repeatedly and dog with son"

@@Emelefpi Holy shit that's some great edgy humor 🤣

Old grouchy Post-Dubya Phil Hartman would've been a sight.

Sue future you instead, it’s an easier case to make.

If you sue your past self, how could you ever collect damages?

Me too

@@blueberry1c2 make the state pay on your past self's behalf xD

I agree, not buying Bitcoins at $40 each when I had the chance was one bad decision.

“-and compared his situation to transsexuality.” Oh brother. 🙄😒😬

Someone needs to tell these people that being accepted on Tinder is not a legal right, or any sort of right, you are not owed a relationship, heavens sake.

If they did reduce his legal age, they could charge or sue him for doing various stuff before being old enough, such as driving and voting .

What ylu can change your gender also could cause the same problems on already existing files,what was the reasoning for nof giving him the age decrease. The reasoning of why they declined him,just proved his point

That's completely valid. Driving in real life is way easier than Mario Kart. I support you all the way.

If that's your basis I want to lower my age: I can drive a real car, but I'm as bad at Mario Kart now as I was when I was my brother got the 64 Nintengo game ages ago.

Nice!

I hate this because I could totally see your pfp saying this

@@None-Trick_Pony Driving is real life often doesn't have bananas or shells in the road.

Spuds Mackenzie ads probably wouldn't be legal today(I've not checked the years of alcohol laws), but the 80s were a wild and exciting time.

I mean, it'd still be incredibly petty and spiteful nontheless.

@@gengarzilla1685 hey man, being incredibly petty with major corporations is funny

Here in the UK advertising is subject to pretty strict (and somewhat nebulous) regulations, if people have issues with an advert they normally complain to the regulatory body rather than SUING THE DANG COMPANY.

It is not really legal in the US. I mean, if you sued they might do it, but you cannot compel TV stations to run such ads. Effectively societal custom prohibits it.

Yes please

@Luís Andrade mcdonalds launched a smear campaign against the victim to make it seem like a frivolous lawsuit. Coffee burns but it isn't supposed to burn THAT much. Consider if you accidentally touched laundry detergent and it melted off your skin. You're not supposed to touch laundry detergent, but the company that made that detergent would still be liable because clearly the detergent was unusually dangerous.

Check out 'Adam Ruins Everything - The Truth About the McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit' here on RU-vid for the little-known details about that lawsuit.

@@Northflowo Remember learning about this in my legal studies class! The smear campaign definitely worked. At first everyone laughed with a “How could she be so stupid?” But no one was laughing when he showed the burns.

@Luís Andrade Dude the coffee was 190 degrees, hot enough to give third degree burns. Coffee is supposed to be around 140, McDonald’s made it that way cause it was cheaper. Have you seen the photos? She had to get a ton of skin grafts. Not a walk in the park, nor worth it for the money

Didn't he file that lawsuit to make a point about transgender rights?

@@thesupergreenjudy he claimed that after he didn't get the support he expected it was not after hazing started he started about the transgenders the transgender's were also not happy about being involved into that mess

Wow, great point! This would create so many issues in so many other cases!

Seems more likely that a minor would try to get their age raised but still a good point

Or somehow being 21 and now you're suddenly 1 damn year old.

I mean yes but on the other hand he is right about how you can change everything else lol

@@kevinthibodeau6813 Well the gender and name doesn't (or shouldn't) change how one is considered in a court of law.

Emile Ratelband used to be a motivational speaker, so he tends to see things in a positive light. I knew about this lawsuit, but I always thought he was doing a publicity stunt or something while mocking far left gender politics.

@@Requiem4u A nutcase AND a bigot, a great combo

Tsjakkaa!

That's some serious Rudy Giuliani energy, there.

I am actually impressed tbh. That is a super creative way to scam taxpayers out of 5 million

that was the worst

I like that the judge basically said "hey that's pretty clever, definite points for originality, but no."

The real question is, by throwing the case out, did the man win or lose?

But it commonly limited by the original contract value. If you get a meal that tastes bad you can expect that you can get the meal cost waived, but you are not getting to take ownership of the restaurant. If they burn your steak you can expect to be made whole, which is either no charge or a new steak. He might have won if he was asking for the cost of the dry cleaning or at worst the cost to replace the pants because he needed them prior to them finding them again. Imagine killing your career because you wanted to wreck a drycleaner.

When I call myself the world’s best cup of coffee I mean it and can substantiate it with evidence.

@@andrewt.5567 Probably a bit of racism underneath it all

It’s illegal to say that in the U.K., since it is explicitly a lie, or at least unfalsifiable. All your claims must be proven, or you can’t make them. I think this is a good way of doing things.

There's a car wash around here that says "100% satisfaction guaranteed or your dirt back".

hmmmm... wonder if that pays more than minimum wage?...

I mean that's actually doesn't sound that bad if he can prove that his life involves considerable suffering.

@@deus_ex_machina_ He didn’t hate them, actually he loves them. He just wanted to make a point, actually he wanted a rupee as compensation(less than a dollar). It was more as a point of his anti natalism belief, about how we are forced to born in a world that will make us experience suffering or discomfort one way of another. It’s pretty weird.

i mean he's technically not wrong

@@deus_ex_machina_ he may be right in the fact that he didn't get the consent to be born. But that doesn't mean that you must sue your parents over it. Nobody can possibly give consent to be born. I can't imagine how someone can seriously agree with this lawsuit.

I went to nursing school with a guy who sued his parents for having him circumcised when he was an infant.

Or "I cannot stand trial as an adult, I am only 13!". For both reasons, the court was 100% right to bar this BS.

@@jinxhead4182 Well, technically, in the fake scenario, he would legally be 18 at the time of the trial. But yes, had I said six years or more, he couldn't even be put on trial. Which honestly is what some people fantasize, forever remaing children without having massive repercussions for the horrible things they do

someone could change their birthdate to get out of a statutory rape charge

@UCS32HYfSEO4VGvaKIYJlWGw I mean, I guess then it technically, legally never happened? As was in the video itself, erasing any amount of time from one's life makes any event that happened in that time to stop existing.

@@andrews3271 Yeah, exactly, that would be incredibly dangerous, and as the court explained, it would allow people to basically change the past, from a legal standpoint.

It's a great pun, too

There was once an RPG called, "Where there's a will, there's a murder". I never played it and I don't know the game mechanics but I used to see (decades ago) advertising for it.

Ill sue you because im bored

Naw, it should be Germany’s slogan. They have nearly twice as many lawsuits per capita per year as the US.

@@unconventionalideas5683 Didn't know that, Germans are showing the Americans how it's done.

I remember that one. I felt very sad for the Chungs (and still do). That judge's action should have been considered an assault. In fact, I think many lawsuits should be categorized as assault and prosecuted as such.

His divorce proceeding was similarly bizarre. The appeals court noted he filed 248 pre-trial motions. 248! As to how he's doing now, his most recent suit was against his landlord for raising his rent $400. Keep in mind the 10-year judgeship he squandered had a $105k salary.

He just wanted to be honest! ...in his own way 😂

I'm trying to understand how he thinks saying he's twenty years younger is supposed to make a difference. It won't make him look younger.

@@angelad3170 for real and homie tried to blame his age for not being able to get chicks

@@angelad3170 His logic was that he looked 20 younger than he was and he was being rejected purely on the basis of age, and I mean tbh he does look more like 55-60 than 69 so he might have some sort of point. The solution however is not to allow people to legally change their age but rather to have your age be legally protected information just like medical information, rather than your ID showing your date of birth it could show whether you're over 18, over 21, or over 70, with the over 21 and over 70 being optional, and with no laws against lying about your own age unless you are lying about being over 18 while under 18, under 18 while over 18, over 21 while under 21, or over 70 while under 70, all other lies about age should be fine. The only other way to view your official age would be for medical professionals, courts, and certain government agencies. This is no different to how you can have a disability card without it having to list your actual disability.

@@giorgitsiklauri840 Why would your age be legally protected information? People dating you have the right to know your age. You don't have the right to have a date.

You got a good video for it

Imagine the face of the judge reading the complaint.

@@andrewdoidge5370 Jim sterling has a video detailing the lawsuit and oh God it is madness.

Leonard French covered some of the court documents on RU-vid.

Andrew Doidge Fred Knudson's _Down the Rabbit Hole_ summarizes the case in excellent fashion.

You said "McDonald's" and I thought it was going a different place, I like this one much better

What if I'm already depressed and the happy meal doesn't make me happy? Do I have a case?

@@Rune3100 Yep. Learning about a grandma getting third degree burns to her private parts was very distressing. A sad man eating a Happy Meal is a better image.

The one I'd like to hear about is the time a woman tried to sue the Quaker Oats Company because she felt calling the Cap'n Crunch cereal "Crunch Berries" was misleading and false advertising, as they aren't real berries. The best part of the story is the judge dismissing the case because, "[the] survival of the instant claim would require this Court to ignore all concepts of personal responsibility and common sense."

If you don't mind can you summarize a few of the other things he's done? I'm very curious

Tjakka! 😂

He's quite (in)famous in Germany as well. Definitely triggered some 90ies TV flashbacks seeing him again 😄

@@MtnNerd Seconded. I'd love to hear about his other exploits.

Or a happy ending 😊

If they apologize, no need for further action

Honestly, can we bring back dueling? It would get rid of a lot of frivolous lawsuits and idiots.

@@Quinntus79 In some states, "mutual combat" is a thing, but it's unarmed combat only.

@@whitneyschmitney If they don’t, grab a friend, that’s your second: your lieutenant when there’s reckoning to be reckoned.

Work on contingency? No, money down! Oops shouldn't have this bar association logo on here either.

Yeah, that one is often cited as a textbook frivolous lawsuit, but the coffee served by McDonald's was 20 degrees farenheit hotter than any of their competitors, which reduced the time of exposure to cause burns from 20 seconds to 3, and their packaging was not particularly safe. As a result the woman in question was seriously burned and had permanent disfiguring injuries. She asked McDonald's to pay $20,000 (the cost of her treatment plus her daughter's loss of income due to caring for her). McDonald's offered $800.

I think the woman admitted she was partially at fault because she shouldn't have had the coffee open in a car, but the fact that the burns were so bad, and that there were multiple also people reporting burns (albeit nowhere near as bad) made a court decide McDonald's was still responsible. Another one he could talk about was the lesbian couple suing the cake store for posting their personal information online. Or the aunt that sued her nephew for an injury that the entire family believed insurance would never cover otherwise.

@@metademetra Exactly. It's her fault that she got injured, but McDonald's fault that the injuries were horrific. Everybody knows that spilling coffee in your lap hurts, but it's not supposed to put you in hospital.

@@beeble2003 If McD's coffee was so hot that it was causing serious burns (as it had in the past), they should not have been serving it at the drive thru. Spills are way more likely in a moving car, and they would know that.

@@julietardos5044 Yes, I know. Any cup of hot coffee is going to injure you, but normal coffee won’t give you debilitating injuries.

Hey man cars melt here so it’s not the craziest thing

Keep on going bro, eventually. No rush.

That is because women on there dont even know guys have the option to swipe "no". For some reason the better looking guys will play downward for easy action. Girls who are 4 an 5s are getting dudes who are 8s. Some of the girls literally have to keep calendars to track their dates. And not necessarily the good looking ones. So if you are a 5 guy trying to talk to a 5 girl you are being pushed out by a bunch of 8 guy. Girls absolutely can swing upward on there. If you are a 5 guy, you are probably limited to girls that are a trainwreck.

@@andrewt.5567 That's also because more guys than girls use the app I think.

Get a dapper haircut and groom your eyebrows, it does a world of good 😍

@@katyungodly How did you know I have bushy eyebrows.

I’d like your comment but you have 69 likes…. So legally I can not.

Upvote for using the correct word "Segue" I keep hearing people say "segway" (nothing against Segways - they are great fun just irrelevant to Legal Eagle's transitions).

TBF, sounds like that dollar pay .0000000000000000000000001% of the therapy bills for a kid raised in that environment.

I tried to look this up and I am extremely sad I cant find it. However, custody of a pet seems a valid reason to sue in my opinion. Which actually makes me more curious about this case, because I wonder what made this case in particular frivolous.

I think it's LOOOOONG time someone shut down PETA by now.

Like when they kill all of that lobsters by puting them in a river and not the ocean and they drown, or when they kill over 90% of the pets they "care" or maybe that time.... you get it at this point

@@MasterZebulin I don't know how they weren't shut down by their own people after openly killing people's pets.

PETA is a domestic terrorist organization and you can't convince me otherwise. They've been caught funneling money to, and training, eco terrorists back in the 90s and early 2000s. Some of whom did millions of dollars in arson damage.

That photographer should have crowd funded a defense fun and counter sued PETA for as much as he could have. ENough people hate PETA they'd donate and pretty sure some high profile lawyers would love to rip their crooked legal teams a new one.

Those were all real cases he's bringing up in the song.

I’ve actually seen adult men identifying as little girls, because they want little boys to be their “boyfriend”. 🤢

D’oh! 🤦🏻‍♂️ Do you know how that ended?

There's this funny weird Australian movie called Suing The Devil about a guy who she's the devil and he turns up. 😂 I wish LegalEagle would cover it but it's Australian.

Dorothy Lensa I think Legal Eagle can speak Australian, so it could still be covered. Though legal proceedings will be somewhat different

Could this have been the same case in which the judge decided that the devil would have royal/diplomatic immunity due to being the Prince of Hell? I think it was discussed on an episode of QI.

@@FlatlandsSurvivor you think he's multilingual?

There have been trials of animals who were then executed for their "crimes".

And the only record we have of him travelling the country was that time he went down to Georgia

Ruining the business of some hardworking immigrants, guy should be repeatedly kicked in the nuts and then disbarred.

Obviously he doesn't care if people give the money to the charity and not to him

Hannity?

Glen beck?

Doubt they'd retract their claim after doing it

Yep! Interrogators just do it to alleged terrorists for the funsies! Just good, old-fashioned, all-American fun! Who even likes breathing, anyway?

Which American talk show? The one in this video was Good Morning Britain.

@@singaporesammy Sorry, since it was LegalEagle using the clip, I assumed it would be American. If you say it's British, i'll it. :)

@@Ssarevok And I'm sorry if I seemed like a pedant. I just thought you may know something we didn't.

@@singaporesammy All good. :)

Just missing the "Objection!" there to let LegalEagle know of the error.

Season 3-10 are 8 seasons of pure memery.

@@mykaruest3620 or any season with lionel hutz

@@axeavier rip Phil Hartman

@@EdibleClown Phil Hartman died too soon. It depresses me that he was starting to get to Mel Blanc levels in his career and it was cut way too damn short.

@@mykaruest3620 I'll never forget "Hi I'm Troy McClure from such self help videos as Smoke Yourself Thin and Get Confident, Stupid"

Reminds me of the joke "What do you call the guy who graduates last in his class from medical school? Doctor."

Test anxiety does not make a bad doctor. Test scenarios are different than real world applications and there's a lot more stress involved. I'm not saying the lawsuit had merit (I don't know enough about the case), just that there are plenty of people who are good at their job that don't test well. Edit: in fact, there are studies showing that testing in medical school is unrelated to academic performance. I have the link, here, but I think YT would delete my comment if I link it, so I'm just going to give the title of the study I found: Test anxiety in medical school is unrelated to academic performance but correlates with an effort/reward imbalance

I've heard a couple of equally silly ones: I found them online so of course I can't verify their veracity. A woman who had just given birth sued the hospital because childbirth wasn't the ecstatically joyous experience she thought it would be. and a woman shot by the police during an armed robbery sued the police - not for shooting her, but for releasing her from prison after serving a sentence for a previous crime. Her argument was that if she hadn't been released, she wouldn't have been able to commit the second crime and so wouldn't have been shot, so it was all the police's fault. That she had the option not to commit the crime during which she got shot doesn't seem to have occurred to be

I heard a story about a man who had just graduated from medical school. He was involved in a fight outside a bar and slashed a guy with a broken bottle. He lost his medical license.

It's done with nearly zero liability, too.

Could the defendant sue them for damages or something? I guess that’s just more money.

There's two kinds of people who file frivolous lawsuits: complete idiots who have no idea what they're getting themselves into, and wealthy people who get off on putting others down.

Another gaping flaw in American society.

I don't know why Red Bull didn't just mail that guy a pair of Victoria Secret wings with a note that said, "Sorry so late, but we didn't say WHEN we'd give you wings..."

@@MatthewHarrisLawPLLC No they showed on the advert the wings grew from drinking it, so that wouldn't work.

@@gamewithadam7235 that could be waved away as "puffing" if you try hard enough i imagine

That was in his "not actually frivolous" video. It wasn't about literal wings, it was about the caffeine content and claims the company made about the amount of energy the drinks provide.

@@RabblesTheBinx This is also true.

IIIRC, she actually got seriously injured, so it may not have been as frivolous as people think.

if i recall the woman in question got secnd degree burns etc again it should not be that hot

True. Also cars should not go so fast as to kill you. Soda should not be so surgery as to cause diabetes. These are facts.

Yeah, that lawsuit was anything but frivolous. That McDonalds had been warned multiple times that their coffee was too hot and they refused to lower the temperature.

@@Rougesteelproject It was not frivolous AT ALL, it was McDonalds who used all of their resources to brand the lawsuit as frivolous in the media to discredit that woman for having the gall of suing them. The fact that so many people believe that it was frivolous lawsuit proves the power corporations have over their opinions.

Only sometimes? ;D My great-uncle was helping me through college on the basis of a verbal agreement we had and everything was going smooth as silk--and then he had a stroke. His lawyer, who I called 'Wormtongue' because he was a double-talking ass, got power of attorney and that's when getting the money to cover the costs my uncle and I had agreed he'd cover became akin to pulling teeth. When my uncle died, I'm surprised all my hair didn't turn grey from the stress of wondering when money to cover the COSTS THAT MONEY FROM MY UNCLE WAS SUPPOSED TO COVER was going to arrive. I was NOT AMUSED when I found out, months later, the lawyer hadn't informed me that the fund my uncle had been drawing money from to help me out was basically empty. I had no idea when my uncle died how long it takes to settle a will--and he hadn't named an executor (I know there's a term for it but I can't remember how to spell it. ;D) so that made it take even longer. GAAAAAH! I finally tried to step up and be named executor, but the state I was living in required the person who'd died to own land in that state for me to be named executor. XP My uncle's lawyer was named executor, and I ended up being screwed out of money I *should* have gotten to cover costs MY UNCLE AND I HAD AGREED HE WOULD COVER. Color me PISSED AS HELL. I had absolutely no idea how to fight it, so I took comfort in the fact all the money I didn't get went to my uncle's alma mater. If I'd had any idea how to sue for the money, I absolutely would have.

Sounds like even if the lawsuit was deemed frivolous, it still had its intended effect. His real goal was to reduce the socially-harmful advertising, but he couldn't sue for that, so he sued for something else, it was thrown out, but still resulted in the ads being ended. So a noble goal and successful outcome with a frivolous lawsuit as a part of the process.

Works on contingency?

More supreme Kyle and Karen energy.

At least 60 of them, and counting.

@Luís Andrade But there wasno fraud which is why the cases are frivolous.

@@atiredfloridian777 That's cute: Calling anyone who complains about anything names! And I agree. Anyone named Karen or Kyle deserves any insults. How dare they have a name like that!

@Luís Andrade Don't be asinine. "a suspicious disappearing of ballots" What disappearance? Where and when? " appearance of others exactly in the right states exactly at the same time" What appearance? Where and when? "any kind of electoral scrutiny is being branded as voter suppression." Stop lying, please. "It's just a collection of coincidences" What coincidences? Where and when? Please, be specific. "not at all indicative of a fraudsters plan" Please, provide details. Who. what, where and when.

@LegalEagle i will send you some shitcoin, i want it back, ok.

Personally I don't think it was frivolous, the company promised a jet if someone did whatever it was, the guy worked out that doing it was cheaper than the jet itself so he did exactly what Pepsi said would get him the jet, as far as I'm concerned he's earned it

I mean think about it if the company hired you to do some job and said "if you do this job for us we will pay you with a jet" you'd be pretty darn pissed if they turned around and said you should have understood it was stupid to expect a jet

@N Fels that law should only apply to stores with a single location anyway. Big companies, especially in bed making have skewed prices so far from reasonability that cheating them is a duty rather than a misdeed

I remember that one! He managed to convince at least one other person of the ad's legitimacy before lawyers got involved, because he took out a loan to buy the Pepsi Points needed to buy the Harrier.

Don’t know about LE, but John Oliver has a whole video on SLAPP suits. It’s glorious

@@akku97 LE actually made a video on SLAPP suits as a sort of response to John Oliver

Was probably his only option - the harmful impacts he was unhappy about were not illegal, so he had to find some legal-ish thing he could try to take them to court over, at least to get their attention. He probably knew the specific claims were absurd. And from what others are saying, it worked, the ads were pulled. So a valid and noble objective utilizing a frivolous lawsuit as part of the process to successfully achieve its end. So ultimately I'd categorize this separately from the others here that were just plain stupid and absurd - this one was a frivolous case done for the right reasons.

Looks like he wasn’t a very good Jedi

He sounds so much like an incel

Let's not forget the white woman who wanted to be considered black, and some of the people defending her used the same reasoning.

I wonder how people can drink it... seriously, I'd rather drink my gf's piss.

I'd have water instead of that

@@Mic_Glow to be fair, that is your kink.

@@Mic_Glow What if you honestly believed it would transform the world around you into a tropical paradise full of beautiful men and women engaged in unrestricted merriment?

In fairness, he was against how the ads were appealing to his children. It's just that he made a fool out of himself going the wrong away about combating it.