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11/26/2004 10:29:32 AM · #1 |
To my friends in the USA:
I just got another "Stella Awards" e-mail from a co-worker. This is an e-mail which contains a bunch of stories about frivolous lawsuits against corporations.
Most (or all) of them are silly urban legends. If you receive one of these, try and inform the sender of the truth.
Here's a great website which addresses the fact that most of the time wasted in the courts is the fault of corporations.
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
So what do you think?
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11/26/2004 10:37:16 AM · #2 |
| Since we are supposed to be a "nation of laws" I think lawyers are an inevitable and necessary evil, unless everyone was willing/capable of doing a lot of reading (try Nolo Press) and acting in pro per. However, they also supply us with a virtually inexhaustable supply of lawyer jokes to ease the pain. |
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11/26/2004 06:24:39 PM · #3 |
A guy is walking down the sidewalk when he glances down and sees what looks like Aladin's lamp. He bends down, picks it up, shrugs, and rubs it. A big puff of smoke comes out of the lamp and a genie appears. The genie says, "I will grant you one wish, whatever you want, but there's a catch." The guy says "what's the catch?". The genie says "whatever you wish for you get, but every fireman within a 10 mile radius gets double what you wish for." The guy says "That's fine, I wish for a million dollars". The genie snaps his fingers, gives the guy a million dollars, and gives every fireman within a 10 mile radius 2 million dollars.
The next day, another guy sees the lamp, picks it up, and rubs it. The genie appears and says "I will grant you one wish, but the catch is whatever you wish for you get and every doctor within a 10 mile radius gets double what you wish for". The guy says, "OK, no problem, I wish for a million dollars". The genie snaps his fingers, gives the guy a million dollars, and gives every doctor within a 10 mile radius 2 million dollars.
The day after that, yet another guy picks up the lamp, rubs it, and the genie appears. The genie says "I will grant you one wish but there is a catch". The guy says "What's the catch?". The genie says "whatever you wish for you get, and every lawyer within a 10 mile radius gets double what you wish for". The guy says, "I'll have to think about that one." Finally, about 10 minutes later he says "I wish to immediatly donate one of my kidneys to the organ bank". |
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11/26/2004 09:51:31 PM · #4 |
There are enough "real" stories to make the Stella Award frauds unnecessary. For example:
"Antoinette Millard told New Yorkers she was a Saudi princess, and ran up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, when she was actually Lisa Walker, a divorced investment banker from Buffalo who lived in a one-bedroom apartment on 89th Street and Third Avenue. She got caught when she tried to make a fake insurance claim for stolen jewelry eleven days after purchasing the policy. From Rikers Island, she's countersuing American Express for daring to seek to recover the $951,000 she charged without paying, claiming they "should have known that [she] was acting impulsively and irrationally" because of "anorexia, depression, panic attacks, [and] head tumors" and shouldn't have been given credit in the first place. She seeks $2 million." (Samuel Maull, AP, Nov. 24; Dareh Gregorian, "The Gall-$tar", New York Post, Nov. 25).
An interesting site worth a visit anytime: www.overlawyered.com
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