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  1. Illinois Tries to Reclaim John Lennon's Ax

    Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan gave the Peace Museum a chance -- and now she wants John Lennon's guitar back. The state's top prosecutor sued the small and financially troubled Chicago museum in Cook County Court on Feb. 8 to turn over an acoustic guitar that belonged to the former...
  2. Hunter sues after failing to find elephant

    Link Removed due to 404 Error A Polish hunter who dreamed of shooting an elephant has sued a German-based travel company after it sent him to a part of Africa where he said there were no elephants to be found, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. The company, Jaworski Jagdreisen, which...
  3. Cruel & Unusual Punishment

    Weird Universe Link Removed - Invalid URL A Vietnam vet jailed for menacing his wife is suing Nassau County, NY for an unusual injury he received during his 2007 incarceration in the county facility. The man was bitten, on the penis, by a rat that came out of a hole in the mattress he was...
  4. Pair of Women to Sue Dr. Phil For Locking Them in House With Naked Dude

    Pair of Women to Sue Dr. Phil For Locking Them in House With Naked Dude January 10th, 2011 Several women are suing TV doctor personality Dr. Phil, claiming he traumatized them by trapping them in a house and forcing them to look at a naked man. Somewhere, Brett Favre is jealous he...
  5. Apple fights to ban Dutch Windows 7 iPad-like tablet

    Apple has threatened a Dutch tablet manufacturer with a lawsuit about the name nPad. The Dutch Windows 7 tablet is no longer available, and is looking for a new name. Link Removed - Invalid URL
  6. VIDEO Duke Nukem is back.....?

    It's taken 13 years, tens of millions of dollars, and a couple lawsuits, but the videogame that created the Vaporware Award is finally, officially on its way. Publisher 2K Games and developer Gearbox Software announced this afternoon at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle that the Chinese Democracy...
  7. Snooping with 'little available redress for users'

    Walt Disney's internet subsidiary and several of its partners have been sued for allegedly using cookies based on Adobe's Flash Player to track highly personal information about their users, many of whom were minors. The LSOs, or locally shared objects are better known as Flash Cookies, and...
  8. Senator Suing God Urges Judge to Proceed

    Link Removed - Invalid URL OMAHA, Neb. (AP) --State Sen. Ernie Chambers says his lawsuit against God might seem funny but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a serious point. Chambers asked Douglas County District Judge Marlon Polk on Tuesday to let his lawsuit proceed. Chambers said he wants...
  9. Windows 7 Mitsubishi, Hitachi, and Toshiba Implicated in Memory Price Fixing Conspiracy

    Do you remember if you bought memory between 1999 and 2002? If you did, bet you thought it was really expensive. A major memory price fixing conspiracy is currently undergoing settlement in the United States, in which nearly every major DRAM manufacturer has been implicated. The alleged price...
  10. VIDEO After Lawsuits and Therapy, Star Wars Kid is Back

    It may be the most legendary monument to the internet’s 15 megabytes of fame – or unintentional infamy: eight years ago, private footage of a heavy-set teenager, spinning nearly uncontrollably while wielding an imaginary-lightsaber, as if in an audition tape for Star Wars, was uploaded to the...
  11. Patent loss could rain on Windows 7 parade

    I find this highly unlikely, but here's the article: MICROSOFT MUST BE PANICKED that its recent loss in a US patent lawsuit could dampen the retail launch of its massively hyped Windows 7 operating system on 22 October. Last Friday it filed a sealed Emergency Motion asking for a stay of...
  12. Windows Vista Anybody Interested In Starting A Class Action Lawsuit??

    Hi! I'm seriuos... I totally hate the bloatware the manufacturer put on my machine. I resented the "Vista Recovery Disc's" too. Every time I have to re-install Vista, I have to spend long periods of time erasing these programs that they originally put on my machine. And they are intricately...