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Frivolous Lawsuit

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Frivolous Lawsuit	comment	Alice is idling her car out of the driveway when she accidentally bumps into a stranger, Bob. "Ow, my back!" Bob exclaims. "The pain is immeasurable! I'll sue you! I'll sue!" Someone â€” usually a stranger, sometimes a friend, occasionally an enemy â€” has decided to sue Alice in the wake of some minor accident. The plaintiff suffered no real injury, but is suing out of greed, a desire for revenge, or is simply desperate for justice, often with the help of an Ambulance Chaser or otherwise Amoral Attorney. If the judge doesn't laugh the guy out of court, though, our hero must often resort to some variety of Courtroom Antics to discredit her adversary. The classic sitcom lawsuit is almost always a tort action: the plaintiff is claiming the defendant's negligence harmed them in some way, and is demanding monetary compensation. The actual injury sustained is always minuscule and the amount of damages claimed has to be at least five times what the hero earns in a year. The complaint itself is often just plain silly, such as suing Pizza Building because the X-Treme Meatsa-Treatsaria did not truly deliver "gut-busting meat flavor" as promised. After all, the plaintiff ate the pizza and his gut was left intact! Subtrope of Hilarity Sues. A lawyer who goes after tort claims is called an Ambulance Chaser. See Staged Pedestrian Accident or Obfuscating Disability when the accident is invoked to scam people.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	Batman (1966): This is the plot of the pilot episode; the Riddler invokes this when he cleverly tricks the Dynamic Duo into falsely arresting him and then he sues Batman for a million dollars (in the sixties!). The point is not only the money (Bruce Wayne can afford it) but the fact that Batman must reveal his Secret Identity, which would ruin his Super Hero career.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_1f4781e0	comment	Most of the cases in The Sonic Amigos sub-series Retard Court starring Homer Simpson end up being this.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_20336460	comment	Jagged Alliance: The aftermath of the death of Marty "Kaboom" Moffat is described as one of the strangest pieces of litigation ever filed involving an international organization for mercenaries. Marty was one of the old school of explosives experts, whose career of standing next to things going "BOOM!" left him with some rather profound disabilities. One morning, Marty was found completely unresponsive in bed, rushed to a nearby hospital, declared braindead, and had his organs harvested as per his legally filled-out donor card. The family then sued the hospital, claiming that Marty was just fine and simply not a morning person.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_2170b9bf	comment	On Becker, Becker is sued by his patient when Becker takes him to the gym for rehab purposes, and the patient suffers a heart attack as a result — even though Becker saves his life, and Becker was rehabilitating him in order to prevent an inevitable heart attack and accompanied him there for safety purposes. Becker's insurance company wants to settle, and agrees to clear Becker of all liability and expense; however, Becker refuses on principle, even though it costs him considerable time, money, and harassment. He ends up managing to get the suit dismissed after a lengthy rant on the stand; however, his behaviour and personality has so antagonised the trial judge that she ends up throwing him in the slammer for contempt.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_2221ecbd	comment	An episode of CSI: NY revolved around the murder of a woman who made a living from multimillion-dollar Frivolous Lawsuits (for reasons many of which are implied to have been set up by herself). The murderer turns out to be a chef whose life she had completely destroyed and had recently gotten back on his feet...only for him to see her getting ready to pull the same stunt again at his new place of business. You almost feel bad for the guy. Oh, and her personal Ambulance Chaser is played by Wayne "Hello, Newman" Knight.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_222f03d3	comment	In an episode of Coach, Luther sues Hayden after burning his mouth on a hot-off-the-grill bratwurst at Hayden's barbecue. He nearly wins the lawsuit; however, the judge eventually decides that, as Hayden is merely a tenant, he is not liable; the owner of the property is. Since the owner is Luther's girlfriend and both men's boss, he immediately drops the suit before the verdict is officially announced.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons Happens in the early episode "Bart Gets Hit by a Car". Mr. Burns accidentally hits Bart with his limo; the family attorney 'tricks' Homer into exaggerating the resulting injuries to squeeze more money from Burns. The irony being they would have gotten something, at least covering Bart's hospital bill as Marge wanted, if they had just told the truth at trial rather than make up false claims. Or if Homer had just taken the half-million Burns had offered him and went home — they ended up with nothing because Homer was greedy. There is also Homer vs. an 'all you can eat' seafood restaurant in "New Kid on the Block". If they kick Homer out before he has had 'all he can eat', does this make it fraudulent publicity? He stays hours past closing time (he was kicked out because the personnel wanted to go home), forces them to make runs to the grocery store, and eats far more than any thoughtful person would (he emptied the restaurant's entire food stock several times over). 'All you can eat' does not mean 'you can/have to eat it all.' This one ends up getting settled out-of-court; they invite him back but set Homer up in a glass display and let all the people gawk at him pigging out. It draws boatloads of customers who came to watch, but then decide to try the food — because this restaurant has to be pretty good if he's eating like that. Hutz also mentions in that episode that he sued The NeverEnding Story for false advertising, disregarding that logically any movie made that actually lived up to that title would never finish production. Selma has claimed that she has a lucrative hobby filing 'nuisance lawsuits'. Deconstructed in "Bart to the Future". Bart is an unemployed loser who frequently files these to make a quick buck, but it's deconstructed in that none of his ridiculous cases (among them: suing a restaurant for an over-salted french fry, Disneyland for a spider bite received on the premises, and a messenger company for refusing to pay him for his first two weeks of employment) ever go to court, and it's implied Bart can't find a lawyer to take them all. One time Moe was able to sue a rope company when the rope that he was using to hang himself was weak, he won the case, got a good sum out of it, and a brand new rope with which to hang himself. In "Pray Anything", Homer trips over a hole in the ground next to the church and so sues the church, being awarded one million dollars. The church does not have that kind of money, so Homer is instead given the deed to the church. And when the attorney who takes his case steps out to offer his services, he shows off Dr. Nick, who thanks to him had won a lawsuit for injuries sustained while driving drunk in a graveyard. In "Lisa the Simpson", one of the dozen or so of Homer's relatives that he gathers claims he makes a living by insurance-fraud lawsuits. The Blue-Haired Lawyer who works for Mr. Burns is usually smart enough to avoid something like this, but in "Lisa the Beauty Queen", when he becomes too immoral and threatens to sue Principal Skinner for copyright violation (Springfield Elementary's carnival uses Disney's catchphrase "The Happiest Place on Earth" — just consider that for a minute) Skinner shows them what happens when you make a former Green Beret mad. "Copyright expired", Skinner says after handily taking out the lawyers.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_26ef42e7	comment	Kevin & Kell: A bear attacks Kevin, who easily backhands him. The bear responds by suing Kevin, claiming that, as a rabbit, he violated the natural order by fighting back and demanding Kevin's weight in meat. Mei Li gets the case thrown out by pointing out that the bear using the judicial system to attack Kevin is equally unnatural.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_2d1084bc	comment	Beavis And Butthead: Joe Adler, a recurring incompetent lawyer, specializes in this (with Beavis and Butt-Head's help). In the episode "Sexual Harassment," he decides to sue Beavis and Butt-Head's classmate Kimberly (as well as their high school and teacher) for giving the boys erections. In the episode "Whiplash," he decides to sue the city and the state for an obviously false case of whiplash (which he helps to create the illusion of) and is arrested for dozens of counts of fraud.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_35e50811	comment	Gravedale High: The episode "Monster on Trial" featured old lady Fresno, who cried whiplash after her car was slightly nudged by Reggie during driving lessons, and sued Max Schneider for a million dollars. Turns out she did that 8 times already, but always wins anyway. She wins the case this time too (entering in a wheelchair), but the case finally gets overturned when she tries the same trick in a minor collision with the judge. So when a plaintiff gets into an accident involving the judge of a previous case, that judge is allowed to declare the lawsuit against himself and his old court ruling void. Fresno also ran a red light when Reggie and Frankentyke chase her through Midtown, so karma nipped her in the bud.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_41b0198a	comment	The protagonist of The Dresden Files spent years dealing with harassing lawsuits from Larry Fowler after blowing out most of his talk show's electronics. Given that the only way to find him liable was for a judge to accept the existence of magic, this mainly served to drain Dresden's bank accounts. This is possibly an inversion of the usual way this trope is played since the lawsuit is legally frivolous but morally quite sound; Harry's magic really did blow out all the electronics and cause some very expensive damage, and Harry went into the talk show knowing the risk of this but decided to go in anyway, and he (obviously) didn't give Fowler due warning that he was a real-life wizard who carried a high risk of accidentally destroying all the electronics. Based on this, Fowler actually seems quite justified in wanting compensation. However, in a further complication, Fowler himself presumably doesn't believe in magic, so to the best of his knowledge he is launching a frivolous lawsuit against Harry, and his accusations just happen to be true.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_42c05590	comment	In the Rocko's Modern Life episode "Fly Burgers", Rocko swats a fly named Flecko while cooking burgers. Flecko sees an ad on TV saying how he can make money by suing someone... and he sues Rocko. Rocko is sentenced to 30 days... as a fly. Until the judge sees Flecko at a fancy restaurant, completely uninjured, and turns Rocko back.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: The character Lucky was initially disliked because he entirely sustained himself on frivolous lawsuits and refused to get a job. When we first meet him, he's just bought himself a new truck with money taken from "slippin' on pee-pee on th' Costco." When picked up by an ambulance, he even knows the exact amount of morphine to be given that will dull his pain without damaging his ability to testify. In the original Grand Finale, Lucky accidentally gets injured in Dale's housenote Lucky and Dale were pretending to swordfight with poison wands, Lucky jumps onto a railing in the basement, which breaks and causes him to fall and hurt his back. so he can sue him so he can have an expensive wedding with Luanne. It turns out that Dale built the railing himself—without a permit, makes his own poison (he's an exterminator), is his own boss, and made up a fake liability insurance carrier just to shut Hank up. Lucky's lawyer tries to sue Strickland Propane because Hank suggested that Dale hire Lucky. Lucky later manages to turn this around. After the lawyer refuses to drop the case due to "malpractice reasons", Lucky fakes a video of him playing golf, thus making his suit void. The lawyer tried to "unfake" it to get the suit through, but Lucky manages to get "injured" again in the lawyer's office. Hank promptly threatens to take the case — now against that lawyer — to one of his colleagues, and his threat looks fairly credible as all of the other lawyers in the building are almost lining up in the hall to take it. In another episode, Dale sues the tobacco companies, lying to claim that years of secondhand smoke have made his wife unattractive and destroyed his marriage. When he discovers that the company has (electronic) bugs planted in his house, he tries to exploit it by insulting Nancy at every opportunity, which completely destroys her self-esteem and nearly does destroy their marriage (he didn't tell Nancy what he was doing because she's a bad actress). When Dale finally figures out what he's doing, he cross-examines himself and convinces everyone that he still finds Nancy gorgeous. Ironically, he was suing to get money for Nancy so she could get cosmetic surgery. In "Cops and Robert", Dale applies for a position at a "Hooters" Expy called Bazooms! specifically so that he can sue them for discrimination when they turn him down for being male, but that is subverted when he is offered the position. He accepts it in hopes that they won't tolerate a man working as a waitress there for very long (again, letting him sue for discrimination), but that is also subverted when he starts giving away free food to get bigger tips, giving them a perfectly legal reason to fire him.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_4617a9f2	comment	Played with a bit on Married... with Children. After Bud and Kelly get into a fender bender with a Mercedes, Al bemoans society's litigiousness. But when Bud tells Al that the other guy was at fault, he immediately decides to sue, and has the children play up the severity (read: existence) of their injuries in court. And just to drive home the ridiculousness of the whole thing, it's mentioned in court that they're suing for "a jillion dollars." In another episode, a burglar broke into the Bundy family home while Al was asleep on the couch. As Al woke up, he accidentally touched the burglar on the behind, before realizing what was going on and pummeling the burglar. He was later sued by the burglar for "sexual harassment" and being unable to "work", claiming that Al's punch ruined his career as a burglar, greatly exaggerating his injuries, this along with obvious signs that the burglar's attorney was having a relationship with the judge, and tried to shake Al's hand with the one in said sling after he won. However, Al got the last laugh when he decked the burglar again, and won a Frivolous Lawsuit of his own by claiming he hurt his hand on the burglar's face. In another episode, a thief entered the shoe store where Al works and Jefferson suggested Al could sue the mall for four million dollars, claiming the incident made him afraid of shoes. The mall sent an investigator who kept an eye on Al. To make matters worse, Al's bowling team were finalists in a tournament and the bowling hall wouldn't let him play barefoot because the last one to do so there sued the place for three million dollars. Eventually, Al decided the championship was more important than money. In another episode, Peggy sees a TV ad about a lawyer who helped a woman to get 2.5 million dollars from her husband for asking her to cook. Peggy tries it with Al by volunteering to cook but Al is so focused on some idea he refuses the offer and the lawsuit idea goes unmentioned for the rest of the episode. Jefferson once fell inside Al's workplace when a wall gave in. Jefferson's claims of injury ended as soon as Al stated they had no insurance.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_463672a8	comment	In My Sister's Keeper, one thing that attracts Anna to come to the Attorney Campbell to sue for bodily emancipation is Campbell's involvement in a case where a boy supposedly sued God for his illness. Campbell explains that the true story is more complicated: the real-life case was actually a suit against a Catholic orphanage that wanted to deny the child a medically-recommended treatment for his illness for religious reasons, but the kid had wanted to sue God for having given him such a hard life, and that was the narrative that got picked up by the media (probably in part due to the religious aspect of the actual case).
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_468bebb0	comment	This is the background to the toad in the Discworld novel The Wee Free Men. He was a lawyer who was employed by a woman to sue her fairy godmother, on the grounds she was promised health, wealth, and happiness, and didn't feel particularly happy one day. The godmother's response was to turn him into a toad, and his client into a small hand mirror. The worst part, he says, was when the judge applauded. This seems to be a common thing for magic-users, according to Going Postal:
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_4b5dbe41	comment	Subverted in Clerks: The Animated Series. Jay slips on a wet mess that Randall left on the floor, and Randall taunts him about it. "What are you going to do, sue?" Right on cue, a lawyer walks in to buy some conveniences- but when Randall (yes, Randall) asks him to take on the case, he refuses and leaves. Randall then begins a concerted campaign of harassment until the lawyer finally gives in and agrees to take on the case — against Dante, since he was the store manager at the time. At trial, the lawyer doesn't even show any significant effort, presenting the bare facts of the case without any grandstanding. Unfortunately, Dante still ends up looking really bad because his boss hired Randall (yes, Randall), who presents an incompetent defense.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_4f067404	comment	Just Shoot Me!: In "Miss Pretty", Finch's friend Kurt (who he hires to pretend he's the titular advice columnist) is a scam artist with this method. Kurt gets free meals by threatening to sue upon "discovering" items like a rubber band in his food.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_524499fe	comment	Spitting Image portrayed media tycoon Robert Maxwell this way, in a spoof where he sings his own riff on "Puttin' on the Ritz".
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_546876cb	comment	In the Sonic Boom episode, "Don't Judge Me", Dr. Eggman spends most of the episode in a neck brace, claiming Sonic injured his neck in a battle between them, and attempting to sue him over it. He very nearly gets away with it, too, until Sonic notices him move his neck just fine and points it out near the end of the episode.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_59650ab9	comment	Hutz also mentions in that episode that he sued The NeverEnding Story for false advertising, disregarding that logically any movie made that actually lived up to that title would never finish production.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_5f0506dd	comment	In Amateur Surgeon, Insurance Fraud Claude makes his fortune by using things in horribly self-destructive ways (for example, drinking paint and shooting himself with a nail gun), the suing the manufacturers for not providing explicit, idiot-proof warnings. After removing several nails and patching the man up properly, Alan notes in the medical journal that they better get Claude out of there quickly before he tries to sue them too.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_60e46d26	comment	Parodied in a MAD article that details the rise and fall of an advertising campaign, specifically one for a fictitious fast-food chain called McDimples. The chain sues a nightclub with male strippers for using their campaign's new and popular catchphrase, only to learn that said club has been using it for ten years. After being forced to pay a $5 million settlement when counter-sued, they fire their lawyers.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_68d5ac34	comment	Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain: When Zala tries to help Atlantean civilians out of the rubble after the Jelligantic went on a rampage, the various citizens Zala and her robot guard saved waste no time trying to build a case to sue them for injuries in the rescue attempt.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_68dbf95a	comment	McHale's Navy: In one of the Italian episodes, the local mayor threatens to file a large claim for exuberant damages against the Navy after they wreck his fishing boat (which was old and falling apart anyway, and which the mayor and his crony deliberately pushed into the path of the PT-73 as it was backing out of the dock). Unusually for the trope, they aren't actually trying to win the case, but merely have the leverage to blackmail McHale into using the PT-73 as a fishing boat for the village.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_69fa7496	comment	Scrooge McDuck once crashed a plane, and a man who had nothing to do with this threw himself at the wreckage and sued Scrooge for one "maximajillion" dollars. This is so large that it exceeds what Scrooge, who at one point had three cubic money bins each over 20 stories tall, expected to make over his lifetime. Scrooge himself is portrayed in many stories as being the richest person in the world, which makes the amount appear even more ludicrous.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_6ef03be6	comment	My Gym Partner's a Monkey: Principal Pixiefrog's fear of lawsuits often either drove or exacerbated the wacky hijinks of the episode.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_6f734712	comment	In an episode of Smallville, Clark beats up a guy for attempting to sexually assault Lana, but the man sues him for his injuries. Clark's X-Ray Vision shows him that the jerk isn't even injured, but he can't tell anybody that. (Apparently Clark's lawyer didn't think of asking for doctor's records, including more conventional X-rays.)
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_74365738	comment	This seems to be a common thing for magic-users, according to Going Postal:
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_76d3e3c6	comment	In the Book of Isaiah, part of the reason for God's anger at the Israelites is:
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_77e22425	comment	Pinky and the Brain: In one episode, Brain tries to get money for a plan by getting a job and fake an accident to sue his employer for. Brain pretends to be a human who was turned into a mouse because of an accident he suffered at his workplace and the judge rules in the defendant's favor not because Brain was already a mouse before the "accident" but because the defendant's lawyer convinces the judge that Brain isn't a mouse.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld had the Ambulance Chaser Jackie Chiles (an obvious parody of Johnnie Cochran) in at least three cases of this. Every time, he wound up humiliated due to Kramer acting stupid and ignoring his legal advice. In "The Postponement", Kramer sues a coffee chain for burning himself with hot coffee. In the next episode "The Maestro", we meet Jackie Chiles for the first time as Kramer settles the case for free coffee for life, passing up a large cash award in his stupidity. In "The Caddy", Kramer and Elaine sue a woman for "distracting" Kramer while he was driving because she was wearing only a bra top. Jackie Chiles' remark that a bra has to fit "like a glove" is a reference to the O.J. Simpson trial. Kramer's stupidity was again the cause of losing this case since Jackie had it in the bag when he insisted on checking to see if the bra would fit her. In another episode, Kramer turns his apartment into a cigar bar/smoking room, and the cumulative effects of hours upon hours of concentrated smoke make his skin pallid. They sue the tobacco companies and settle for making Kramer the new Marlboro Man.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_7899c84f	comment	In Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, Adrian's mother sues a shoe shop because the stilettos she bought there fell apart while she was climbing a mountain in them. To Adrian's surprise, she wins the case, when her lawyer successfully argues that the shop ("Shoe Mania!") should have removed the exclamation mark from its name so as not to excite hormonal middle-aged women into making rash purchases.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_7bf6a74c	comment	Happens in an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies after a fender bender with some opportunists. During the trial, the unwitting hillbillies do very little to help their case until they accidentally divulge the fact that the guy suing them has a girlfriend on the side, at which point, his accomplice lets the cat out of the bag.note The hillbillies had not only seen the plaintiff with his girlfriend; part of the plaintiff's case was based on being wheelchair-bound. But he'd stood up to hug his girlfriend, which the defendants saw.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_7c4f1adb	comment	Our Miss Brooks: In the episode Mr. Travers' Three Acre Lot. Mr. Conklin sets Miss Brooks up for a fall so he can sue Mr. Travers' and force the sale of the eponymous lot.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_7cb04bb5	comment	In the Inside No. 9 episode "Love's Great Adventure", a character is mentioned to have sued a restaurant for serving olives that weren't already pitted for him.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_7f385321	comment	Denial is about "historian" David Irving's Holocaust denial and his attempt to silence real historian Deborah Lipstadt from calling him a Holocaust denier via a frivolous libel lawsuit against her and her publishers, Penguin Books.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_89daf5f5	comment	Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye: In "The Hunter", the subplot involves Jack being sued by a woman whose prize rooster he accidentally landed on during a chase. Jack apologized and offered to buy her another rooster, but she insists he traumatized her chickens and caused them to stop laying, causing financial and emotional hardship. Jack, finding how seriously everyone is taking this to be ludicrous, sends Howie Fines in to disprove her claim.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_8d814070	comment	MASH has several examples of frivolous court-martial attempts. In "The Trial of Henry Blake," Henry has to defend himself against gurney races, and Radar selling shoes and other things. General Steele brings in several charges against Hawkeye, including impersonating a civilian (The General Flipped at Dawn). In "The Novocaine Mutiny," Frank charges Hawkeye with mutiny for disobeying some idiotic orders. In all cases, all the charges are dropped.note The US Army permits defying orders that are idiotic, in violation of the Geneva Conventions, or otherwise objectionable—but the soldier had better be ready to defend his actions at the inquiry afterwards. Oddly, in MASH, the episodes containing legal issues only come about when key characters usually aren't guilty. For example, when Hawkeye is tried for mutiny, it's a case where he was doing what was best for the patients. He's never tried for the many mutinies he actually commits or the times he fails to obey lawful orders. Along the same lines, Radar has a run-in (pun intended) with an elderly Korean man known as "Whiplash Wang". He lost his farm because of the war, so now he fakes traffic accidents and demands money from the military drivers. The situation is played for laughs, but the motivation certainly is not.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk: Corrupt Corporate Executive Dale J. Biederbeck III, also known as Dale the Whale and The Genghis Khan of World Finance sued Monk's late wife Trudy in the past for giving him that second nickname in a newspaper article. Dale cheerfully admits that he knew he couldn't win the case but he used his billions to draw out the litigation and inconvenience. He kept this up until the Monk's had to sell their house, which Dale bought and uses to store his pornography collection.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_8e209fd7	comment	League of Super Redundant Heroes: Good Girl gets a power-up that makes her look more archetypally angelic, and finds herself sued by Religion for trademark infringement.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_8f58ab76	comment	In Liar Liar, Jim Carrey plays Fletcher Reede, an unscrupulous lawyer who, it is implied, specializes in these sorts of cases. One scene also cites the famous Urban Legend of the burglar who injures himself trying to break into a house and successfully sues the homeowner (in the film, it really happened — to a friend/relative of Fletcher's secretary).
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: "Motor Ed" reveals that an amusement park clown had sued Ron all because he accidentally threw up all over him while on a fast ride after eating a bunch of chili cheese dogs.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_90b916ba	comment	The New Batman Adventures parodied this with an unnamed Johnnie Cochran lookalike popping up to say a catchy line to support a lawsuit. In the commentary for one such episode, the creators note how dated the joke wound up being. In "Over the Edge", Batman's identity is exposed. Minor villains launch a billion-dollar lawsuit against Wayne Enterprises. JC pops in: "If the bat's on a spree, Wayne must pay the fee!" When the Joker somehow acquired vast wealth in "Joker's Millions", he used high-powered lawyers to get acquitted of his various crimes (clearly referencing Cochran's most famous case): "If a man's filled with glee, that man must go free!"
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_99c003af	comment	In an episode of The Boondocks, Riley and his grandpa sue the school after Riley's teacher uses the N-word to refer to Riley, just the same as Riley had been throwing it around at everyone else, with fantasies of getting a large sum of money.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_9aac12df	comment	In U.S. Acres, when Orson read the tale of Goldilocks and the three bears and asked if any of the listeners knew what she did after trying the too hot and the too cold bowls of porridge, Lanolin suggested she sued the bears.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_9ac9d448	comment	Played with in Ultimate Spider-Man. After Peter Parker is bitten and receives his powers, he begins to stand up for himself more, eventually refusing to take crap from Jerk Jock Flash Thompson. Flash responds by challenging Peter to a fight and, not knowing his own strength, Peter easily breaks his hand. Flash's family demand the Parkers pay his medical bills for the incident or they'll sue, ignoring the fact that Flash had been beating up Peter for years and he was the one who instigated the fight. For added bitterness, earlier in the volume, the spider bite made Peter ill enough to go to a hospital, and Oscorp wound up sending the Parkers a gift basket and footed the bill out of fear that they'd sue the company. Uncle Ben later explains he knew it was an accident and Peter wound up fine a few days later, so he'd never considered suing. Later still, Norman Osborn, once he discovers what the spider bite did to Peter, toys with the idea of suing his family. His reasoning: The spider was Oscorp property, along with everything the spider produced. Peter has the spider's venom in his blood. Ergo, Peter has stolen Oscorp property.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_9b530c26	comment	One issue of the Archie Comics had a man intentionally get rear-ended by Veronica so he could sue her. It took Archie, Chuck, and a Zany Scheme to prove that the man had orchestrated the entire thing. Another story had a burglar sue Archie's family after he injured himself tripping on Archie's skateboard while trying to burglarize the Andrews' home. (Naturally, Archie's family was outraged.) It took Dilton Doiley finding an obscure loophole in a very old, forgotten (but not repealed) law to pull the family out.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_9c33b8ab	comment	One episode of Sliders had a universe where since 85% of the population went to law school, this happened all the time. When Rembrandt bumped into a woman, she subsequently sued him for collision. Also, fast-food lawsuits had gotten so serious that ordering a soda required a "carbonated beverage release form", while ordering fries required a doctor's note confirming that the customer had a low cholesterol level.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_9ce851a3	comment	Malcolm in the Middle's evil grandma does this after slipping on a leaf on the main character's front porch. She is forced to back down when her lawyer meets the family and decides that even if they took the family for everything his cut of the profits wouldn't be as much as he wanted.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_9dd8fa62	comment	LegalEagle has several videos talking about the subject, including The Most Frivolous Lawsuits Ever, The Most Ridiculous Lawsuits Ever, and (for fair and balance) Lawsuits That Actually Weren't Ridiculous which includes the infamous "frivolous" lawsuit of Stella Liebeck who suffered third-degree burns and had to spend eight days in hospital receiving skin grafts... which McDonalds accused of being frivolous.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_9f1766e4	comment	The Brady Bunch was once sued by a man who claimed whiplash in the wake of a collision with the Brady family car. His case was discredited in court when Mike deliberately dropped his briefcase on the floor behind the guy, whose prompt and obviously painless spin in place to face the noise demonstrated just how real his injuries were.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_9f78fda3	comment	Murder, She Wrote: Jessica is subjected to a $50 million wrongful death in "Trails and Tribulations", with the Amoral Attorney expecting her insurance company will settle out-of-court for $1 million. He doesn't figure on Jessica's stubbornness. In "Armed Response" Jessica is lightly whacked by a revolving door at the airport and the lawyer with her unsuccessfully tries to get her to sue for damages. In the pilot Jessica is served a subpoena from a woman claiming to be the original author of Jessica's book. Said woman is mentioned as having tried the same scam with several other authors.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_9fa7d06a	comment	Kaede from Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, intentionally a walking American stereotype, threatens to sue everyone she sees for ridiculous things. Most often, the offense is a person seeing her panties when she kicks them, leading Meru to describe her as "fanservicey". As a bonus in the manga, every volume has faux legal documents of her charges from that issue. Most of the time, they are wildly exaggerated.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_a07ac1d8	comment	Pound the Table: Noa Scaeferâ€™s third case shown in the story involves defending Ben Parker from a lawsuit filed by Norman Osborn over injuries sustained when the defendant stopped Osborn from physically abusing his own son.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: In the movie "Into the Wild Green Yonder", Bender is caught in an explosion on Zapp Brannigan's ship, and screams that he can't feel his arms and will never be able to paint again. Kif tells him in a weary voice that you can't sue the military, and Bender gets up. Professor Farnsworth considers one against the Wongs in "Where the Buggalo Roam":
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_a32b6a64	comment	The West Wing has the President getting sued over his comments regarding car seatbelts.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_a90d239a	comment	Psychonauts: Picking up Kitty or her friend Franke with Telekinesis has them threaten this.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_a947ca1d	comment	The second season of Joan of Arcadia featured the title character's family being sued for "emotional damages" by the boy who caused the accident that paralyzed Joan's older brother. The lawsuit was dropped abruptly after an extended arc, and the character in question was never seen again.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_ad29dc16	comment	Archie Bunker tries to cook up a whiplash suit in "Oh My Aching Back", a first-season episode of All in the Family. Because of his unambiguous prejudices, he also insists on having a Jewish lawyer. He gets one but said lawyer senses the case isn't kosher and bails.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_b0fc9724	comment	Parodied by Saturday Night Live ads for the law firm of Green & Fazio ("Call 1-800-HARASSS. The extra "S" is for extra harassment!").
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_b149f4d2	comment	The Partridge Family: In "The Sound of Money," Shirley accidentally rear-ends a car with the tour bus. There's no damage, but once the driver realizes the family is in show business, he pretends to have injured his back and sues the family for $500,000. Danny enlists Reuben's help in tricking the man into bending over so he can take a picture of it and prove he's lying.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_b5a087d7	comment	A skit from Robot Chicken Star Wars II has an ad for Bob Goldstein, who helps those injured by the "Jeddy", including the Wampa, Ponda Baba, and Darth Maul.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_b6c8dea	comment	In one arc of Non Sequitur, Danae tries to sue the state for allowing her teacher to flunk her. The judge throws out the case after calling it the second stupidest thing he'd ever heard.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_b96f5c20	comment	The plot of the film The Man Who Sued God. The main character is a fisherman whose boat is destroyed by lightning, but he isn't allowed to claim damages from his insurance company because the lightning was "an act of God." So he sues God. (God is represented in court by clergymen.) In the end, the main character drops his lawsuit, but his efforts aren't in vain since he's won a moral victory. The clergymen then announce that they'll be suing the insurance companies for unauthorised use of their Lord's name.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_ba3d2748	comment	A string of these set off the plot of The Incredibles. After one man wins a lawsuit blaming Mr. Incredible for injuries incurred while saving his life (since said man was trying to commit suicide), so many people follow that all superheroes are forced into retirement and hiding. Also a case of Artistic License â€“ Law, as no mention is made of Good Samaritan Laws protecting the superheroes in these cases. (However, as MatPat suggests in corresponding theory, the lawsuit happens before Good Samaritan Laws were put in place.)
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_be56d7cd	comment	The trial in Annie on My Mind is this through and through. The entire reason Liza and the two teachers are brought to trial is because a homophobic teacher catches Liza and Annie in Ms. Winthrop and Ms. Stevenson's house. The teachers lose their jobs, but the school trustees call the trial ludicrous and fire the corrupt principal.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_be599ef4	comment	In Spin City, Paul was sued for being shot, and lost. The shooting was an accident caused by an elderly security guard recklessly firing his gun and hitting Paul. As a result, the security guard ends up losing his job, which Paul ends up getting blamed for, and the security guard sues. To make Paul even more of a Cosmic Plaything, everyone sides with and feels sorry for the guard (including Paul's own co-workers), and the jury ends up making Paul pay him twice what he was suing for.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_bfa1d565	comment	In Season 5 of Boston Legal, Catherine Piper (Betty White) comes in wanting to file some lawsuits out of boredom. Carl shoots all her ideas down for being frivolous until she proposes suing TV networks for not having any programming for older people since he's old and doesn't find anything on TV appealing. Luckily for them, the judge, also an older gentleman, is sympathetic to their case.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "The Runaway Bride" has a very mild example â€” Donna threatens to sue a cab driver who refuses to take her to her wedding in Chiswick...because neither she nor the Doctor is carrying any means of paying the fare.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_cd899ed6	comment	The character Lucky was initially disliked because he entirely sustained himself on frivolous lawsuits and refused to get a job. When we first meet him, he's just bought himself a new truck with money taken from "slippin' on pee-pee on th' Costco." When picked up by an ambulance, he even knows the exact amount of morphine to be given that will dull his pain without damaging his ability to testify. In the original Grand Finale, Lucky accidentally gets injured in Dale's housenote Lucky and Dale were pretending to swordfight with poison wands, Lucky jumps onto a railing in the basement, which breaks and causes him to fall and hurt his back. so he can sue him so he can have an expensive wedding with Luanne. It turns out that Dale built the railing himself—without a permit, makes his own poison (he's an exterminator), is his own boss, and made up a fake liability insurance carrier just to shut Hank up. Lucky's lawyer tries to sue Strickland Propane because Hank suggested that Dale hire Lucky. Lucky later manages to turn this around. After the lawyer refuses to drop the case due to "malpractice reasons", Lucky fakes a video of him playing golf, thus making his suit void. The lawyer tried to "unfake" it to get the suit through, but Lucky manages to get "injured" again in the lawyer's office. Hank promptly threatens to take the case — now against that lawyer — to one of his colleagues, and his threat looks fairly credible as all of the other lawyers in the building are almost lining up in the hall to take it.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_df07d96e	comment	In an episode of Lois & Clark, a man pretends to be injured after Supes saves his life, helped by an Ambulance Chaser who thinks successfully suing Superman will make him famous. He even pretends to get further injury when Supes takes a bomb out of the court (through the roof), but then his girlfriend snaps and spills the truth.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_e936047a	comment	The Hey Arnold! episode "Arnold Saves Sid" had Oscar Kakashka comically threaten to sue Phil for smacking him on the hand.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_f43b3a51	comment	In Diagnosis: Murder book "The Silent Partner", Billy Tidewell sues the Community General Hospital and Dr. Jack Stewart for his father dying from a penicillin allergy during a kidney transplant. However, the penicillin actually came from Billy's donated kidney, which Billy took intentionally in order to murder his father.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_f5e30a17	comment	In the Stand Still, Stay Silent prologue, a man finds out that the ferry he's riding will not be making the return trip from the Bornholm island in Denmark because of a governmental decision to halt boat traffic threatens to sue all the boat's waiters if they don't make the captain turn it back while it's still on the way to its destination.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_f655ed11	comment	In one episode of Frasier, a man in the coffeehouse takes Frasier's seat and acts very rudely to him. Frasier, who has been on the receiving end of much rudeness all day, finally snaps, lifts the man up by his armpits and throws him out of the shop. The next day he goes back to the man to apologize, only for the man to sue for assault. Niles however starts insulting the man, goading him until he very lightly pokes Niles in the chest. Niles immediately throws himself into the nearest table and threatens to counter-sue. Frasier is quickly persuaded to play along: Interestingly, Niles is spot-on here. In common law, battery is any offensive touching. Assault can be either an attempted battery or placing someone in reasonable fear of imminent bodily harm. You don't even need to touch someone to complete an assault and the guy poking Niles is a textbook definition of battery. For added humor/irony value, Niles seems to convincingly fake pain as a result of this...only for him to privately admit to Frasier that in his exaggerated fall, he accidentally landed on a fork.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_f6bc8d0c	comment	Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: An episode arguing against requirements for handicapped access uses as evidence the example of a handicapped man who would sue commercial shops en masse for not providing him with handicapped access. It would cost more to fight him than to pay the low damages he requested, netting him quite a hefty amount of money. He apparently hadn't even visited many of the stores he claimed to have attempted to enter, because some of them did have handicapped access.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_f74b5f80	comment	An episode of Babylon 5 has a short skit where a man sues a Vree (aliens that look like Greys and whose ships are flying saucers) because the Vree's great-grandfather abducted the man's great-grandfather and conducted experiments on him. The judge laments under his breath that he always seems to get these sort of cases. Even more amusingly (from the things the judge says), it seems that there's actually a treaty between the Vree government and the Earth Alliance that governs exactly such cases, meaning that these cases must happen all the time in the B5 universe. According to fluff, the Vree aren't the ones doing the abducting. It was most likely the Vorlons and the Streib (who look similar to the Vree but don't have flying saucers). In this specific case, the man claimed to have found records proving it was the ancestor of the specific Vree he was suing.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_f7c1b2d3	comment	In Only Fools and Horses episode "Hole in One", Del Boy decides to sue the Nag's Head after Uncle Albert falls into its cellar, despite the fact that he incurred no injury (they base the suit on emotional damages) and the Nag's Head offered Del a large settlement. The suit ends up being thrown out when the defense points out that Albert is a trained paratrooper (thus having knowledge of how to fall without injuring himself) and that he has "accidentally" fallen down pub cellars numerous times in the past, and taken the settlements.
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Frivolous Lawsuit / int_faf84cd	comment	In Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, several of the adverts you can hear on the radio are political broadcasts for a fictional Republican senator. The first two imply his Democratic opponent has committed vehicular homicide (on the basis he owns a car of the type responsible for one in the area) and child pornography (on the basis he has not yet stated his opinion on the subject). When he sues the Republican, a third ad notes the Democrat had previously claimed to be against clogging up the courts with frivolous lawsuits and implies he is a hypocrite ("Would you want your children to become hypocrites? Vote Republican candidate Robert Thorne, the candidate not accused of being a murderous child pornographer!")
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