The True Stella Awards: Honoring Real Cases of Greedy Opportunists, Frivolous Lawsuits, and the Law Run Amok - Brossura

Cassingham, Randy

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ISBN 10: 0452287715 ISBN 13: 9780452287716

Casa editrice: Plume, 2006

Riassunto

Gathered from the popular website www.StellaAwards.com, The True Stella Awards is an outrageous collection of AmericaÂ's most frivolous lawsuits

Named for Stella Liebeck, the woman who won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit after spilling hot McDonaldÂ's coffee on herself, humorist Randy CassinghamÂ's popular website chronicles the hard-to-believe and amusing claims brought before the U.S.courts. The most ridiculous of these lawsuits are given the “honorable” Stella Award.

In The True Stella Awards, Cassingham documents the most outlandish of these real-life cases, including:
* The man who legally changed his name to Jack Ass, and then sued MTV because their TV show and movie Jackass infringed on his trademark and demeaned his “good name”
* The songwriter who left a minuteÂ's silence on his record only to be sued by the estate of another songwriter who copyrighted his own “silent” song
* The man who sued an amusement park after being the victim of the ultimate “act of God”: He was hit by lightning while standing next to his own car in the parking lot

Stunning and hilarious, The True Stella Awards reveals the extremes people will go to in the pursuit of “justice.”

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Recensione:

How did [Cassingham] get so popular so fast? Well, for one thing, he writes funny stuff. (The New York Times)

L'autore:

RANDY CASSINGHAM is the founder of the website www.StellaAwards.com and the weekly news site www.ThisIsTrue.com, which has a readership of over 120,000 subscribers. He is a former engineer at NASAÂ's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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• Editore: Plume
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0452287715
• ISBN 13: 9780452287716
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 350