frivolous lawsuits

You Won The Lottery?! Give Me Half Or I'll Sue!

By BurningExample - Posted on November 20th, 2007

Lawsuits are a joke in our society; everyone laughs about how frivolous they can be.

Well, today I heard two stories that make me laugh as well as cringe with embarrassment at our nation's lack of hesitance when it comes to suing each other.

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Talk About A Sore Loser

By AdamLabo - Posted on October 7th, 2007

Tagged: College • frivolous lawsuits • grades

Okay, so you didn't do as well as you expected and you received a grade that you think is unfair. So what do you do? Well, hire an attorney of
course and sue! This is absolutely ridiculous and this recently happened t the University of Massachusetts.

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