Consumer protections exist so that customers get what they pay for with their hard-earned money and are not harmed by the consumption or intended use of their purchases. However, as much as corporations can abuse their power over their customers, customers can also abuse the legal system by filing frivolous lawsuits.
Defamation lawsuits, paternity claims, and injurious encounters with the paparazzi are all in a day’s work for celebrities. They get sued for offenses of all kinds, but mostly for reasons that have to do with their celebrity status. For instance, suing your neighbor for looking exactly like you isn’t lucrative, but accusing Michael Jordan of doppelgängerism and suing him and the global sporting apparel company that sponsors him could potentially win you millions of dollars.
The personal injury attorneys at Buckingham, LaGrandeur, & Williams are dutiful defenders of dog bite victims. Be that as it may, we are friends to dogs and most animal species. If you ask us (our contact info can be found here), animals deserve protection against inhumane acts, including those performed by people whose sworn duty is to restore their health.
“’Til death do us part?” What does that even mean anymore? For couples who have experienced divorce, they know that it takes more than a promise to be able to stick it out until the end. All marriages go through different tests and challenges. Some couples weather the storms, while some don’t make it out of the woods.
Just as weddings can be grand affairs, so can divorces be as messy as train wrecks. When these are highly publicized, we can’t seem to look away. Sometimes, however, people have the strangest reasons for breaking up their marriages — and our curiosity about them gets the better of us the same way train wrecks do.
Newsflash: Robert Downey, Jr. did not do any of his own flying as Iron Man in the Avengers movies. He was aided by stuntmen and computers. Actually, none of the actors — male or female — in any action movie do their own flying. They do recite their lines using their own voices, though.
Us regular folk tend to take the concept of “reputation” for granted, but for celebrities who rely on their image for bankability, “reputation” is worth the trouble of going to court. However, sometimes it feels that stars take it a little too far.
Kramer vs. Kramer is a heartwarming drama about the pains of divorce and child custody. It’s a moving portrayal of how ex-spouses Ted (Dustin Hoffman) and Joanna (Meryl Streep) went from estranged exes to sworn enemies to allies. What many divorcees will find particularly relatable is Ted’s sheer ineptness at making French toast on the first morning of Joanna’s “desertion.
Though we might not readily think of them as such, prosthetic limbs can indeed be used as weapons. After all, a weapon is anything used or intended for use in causing death or injury to persons, whether it is designed for that purpose or not. Popular culture features many characters who have weaponized prostheses.
It’s not unusual for separating couples to fight over custody, dispute marital assets, or claim alimony during or after a divorce. It’s par for the course. As family law attorneys, we know better than to underestimate the capacity of some divorcees to take their separation into a strange direction.