You’ve heard this one before — an old woman orders coffee at McDonald’s, scalds herself with the boiling-hot beverage, sues the fast food chain, and wins. And most likely your first thought may have been, “Wait, wasn’t that her fault?”
This now-classic story (which we previously covered in this article on not-so-frivolous personal injury lawsuits) is one of the reasons why it seems America is the land of the free and the home of the frivolous lawsuit.
If cats could talk, imagine the things they would say. Stray cats would probably ask you for nibbles. Your neighbors’ cats would probably ask you for crumbs. And if you have a cat that could talk, all conversations at home would be about feeding time.
There is no HBO show more riveting, more compelling to watch, and more relevant to family law than Big Little Lies. Its five lead characters are, at once, relatable and infuriating. As you can tell, we like the show and we want nothing but favorable outcomes for all the main characters, and let us tell you why.
Divorce can be a messy affair. Even if there’s little animosity between the separating parties, both may still suffer losses. Celebrity breakups can be worse, since everything’s happening in the public eye.
But for certain celebrities in creative endeavors, divorce can actually be an unexpected boon.
We can testify that scenes from the legal drama The Good Wife are far from being accurate representations of real-life legal processes. We even object to its tendency to overuse certain legal drama tropes. Still, we enjoy certain episodes that occasionally tackle interesting legal issues and depict law offices as realistically as they possibly can.
David Dobrik is a name you may not easily recognize unless you spend way too much time on YouTube. He is a semi-popular internet personality with considerable clout, particularly on the video-sharing platform. That just means he somehow obtained a number of subscribers large enough for him to be considered popular.
A memoir of one’s trip to the wilderness or the supermarket can make for a compelling read if it’s well-written. It may even rise to the level of art if it manages to answer age-old questions about the meaning of life and/or if it succeeds in making the personal, universal.
Breaking up is hard to do; more so with divorces. One would think that a parent will want the best for their children even after a divorce. Yet, despite US divorce rates steadily decreasing, one can still hear of stories of awful parents — more often than not, fathers — who would do anything to avoid paying child support.
Happily Divorced is a sitcom about a Los Angeles-based couple, florist Fran (Fran Drescher) and her real estate agent husband Peter (Peter Marc Jacobson) who’ve been married for 18 years. They are coming to terms with the fact that Peter has just come out of the closet as a gay man.
We’ve all heard of employees being fired for performing poorly or engaging in illegal activities at work. But being axed for changing clothes in the workplace? Logging on to Facebook while at work? Charging your cell phone in the office? Writing your office correspondence in ALL CAPS?
Believe it or not, these and other unusual reasons have been used to justify giving employees the boot.