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Injury or Frivolous

Injury or Frivolous . Fountain Fall. Did anyone do anything wrong? Who and what? Other Information: 4 Retail theft convictions in 1990s

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Injury or Frivolous

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  1. Injury or Frivolous

  2. Fountain Fall • Did anyone do anything wrong? • Who and what? • Other Information: • 4 Retail theft convictions in 1990s • 2009 charged with five felony counts, including theft by deception and receiving stolen property for credit card and ID theft. Failed to fulfill court order. • 2009 hit and run conviction • Security Guard fired, she just • wants an apology

  3. Who to sue? • Robert Lee Brock serving a 23 year sentence for grand larceny and breaking and entering while drunk • Suing himself for $5million • Violated own civil rights and religious beliefs • Why would he sue himself? • Since in prison = no income • Expected the state to pay

  4. Privacy Policy • Leroy Greer bought his girlfriend flowers • Privacy policy states will not share personal information with “third parties” • Months after a thank-you note sent to house • Wife called and faced a copy of the receipt • 12 long-stemmed roses and note “Just wanted to say that I love you and you mean the world to me!” • Wife changed divorce to $300,000 plus child support Thrown out of Texas, refilling in New York

  5. McD’s Made me Fat • February 2003: • Judge Sweet stated “If plaintiffs were able to flesh out this argument in an amended complaint, it may establish that the dangers of McDonald’s products were not commonly well known and thus that McDonald’s had a duty towards its customers” • Where should the line be drawn between an individual's own responsibility to take care of herself and society's responsibility to ensure others shield her? The complaint fails to allege the McDonald's products consumed by the plaintiffs were dangerous in any way other than that which was open and obvious to a reasonable consumer," Thrown out by Federal judge

  6. McD’s Made me Fat Continued • 2005: Heart Association and to raise awareness of unhealthy effects of trans fats • Also, pay for legal fees, $7,500 to bantransfat.com and plaintiff Katherine F Settles for 8.5 million to the American • 2010: • Brazilian court, former manager gained 65 pounds while working at McDonalds for a dozen years. Felt ‘forced’ to sample the food each day to ensure quality. Also, got free lunches. Must pay obese employee $17,500

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