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• I need to find out the actual case names of lawsuits discussed at the www.overlawyered.com website (and also a few discussed at the "Stupid Lawsuit Collection" website, www.power-of-attorneys.com/ stupid_lawsuit_collection.asp?wacky=0 - 28k). There are 27 lawsuits for which I need the case name. I am willing to pay $5 per case name, if you are unable to find out the case names of every one of the 27 cases listed below. Here is an example of the format I need for each case name: (Stuff v. Kmart Corp., Cal., Los Angeles Country Super. Ct., No. EC 028718, Jan. 18, 2001) If you cannot get this level of detail, I would be willing to pay $4 per case just for the case name and state it was filed in (e.g. Stuff v. Kmart Corp., CA) The cases follow. Please advise on your progress as you go along. My suspicion is that you will be able to find most of these through Lexis/Nexis, which I don't have access to. best regards and thanks in advance. Bill Biggar CASE #1 Overlawyered.com, Dec., 1999, II Auto/PTSD Case name? Andrea Karlson was hit by George B. Daniels in a low speed auto accident. The accident was so minor that neither party needed an ambulance nor a tow-truck. Karlson?s lawyer argued that the accident had caused post-traumatic stress disorder by bringing back memories of childhood abuse, and that the condition was so bad that she was unable to continue her work as a flight attendent. Jury: $523,000 ?Car accident brings back bad memories: $523,000? CASE #2 Overlawyered.com, Oct. ?03 Govt. Negligence Case name? An 11 year old girl fell out of a New Orleans streetcar?s window. Her arm was crushed when she fell out. The city said that the girl?s mother should have been monitoring her behavior more closely. Jury: $51.4 million dollars to girl. Jury celebrated by taking picture with the judge and the girl?s lawyer, Johnnie Cochran, on the steps of the courthouse. ?Fell out streetcar window: $51.4 million? CASE #3 Overlawyered.com, Oct. ?03 In Los Angeles, Dr. Angelo Grouse, a black doctor visiting the city was driving a car which unbeknownst to him, had been erroneously reported stolen. Police pulled the car over, and handcuffed and arrested Dr. Grouse. They also refused to look at the rental papers in the cars glove box when Dr. Grouse professed his innocence. Dr. Grouse spent two hours in jail before the error was found. Jury: $33 million ($18.8 million from Budget Rent a Car; $15.5 million from City of Los Angeles). ?Arrested for DWB: $33 million? CASE #4 Overlawyered.com, Oct. ?03 Products Liability In 1992, the baby of Shelly Moore, of Texas, burned to death in fire in her mother?s car. The mother claimed that the fire must have started by a cigarette she thought was extinguished, though she did testify that she used a disposable lighter that occasionally would keep burning once used, to the point that she would have to blow it out to extinguish the flame, and that she had toss the lighter onto the seat of the car shortly before the fire in the car started. Phillip Morris settled the case for $2 million dollars, the first time it has ever settled a product liability case over the fact that their cigarettes keep burning even when not being smoked. ?Cigarette starts fire: $2 million? CASE #5 Overlawyered.com, September ?03 ADA Woman in wheelchair sues San Francisco theater when she is forced to use the men?s room, and even that cubicle would not latch fully with the wheelchair inside. Settle: $150,000 In an El Torito restaurant, where the customers? bathroom were on the second floor (and they had a policy against letting customers use the employees bathroom on the first floor), a wheelchair-bound customer was eventually forced to urinate in the restaurant?s parking lot, surrounded by cars? headlights. Jury: $80,000 ?No handicapped bathroom: $150,000? CASE #6 From ?Stupid Lawsuit Collection? Workplace Safety Look up case Cheryl Vanevender sued the convenience store she worked at after injuring her back opening up a giant pickle jar. Jury: $2.2 million ?Hurt back opening big pickle jar: $3 million? CASE #7 Overlawyered.com, July ?02, III CR ? sex discrimination/harassment Case name? Six female Ralph?s supermarket employees brought suit accusing their manager, over a decade of time, of calling them ?vulgar names,? ?manhandling them,? and throwing items like phones, clipboards, and heavy mailbags at them. Jury: 6 x $5 million = $30 million; reduced by judge to $8 million. ?Called vulgar names and stuff thrown at them: $8 million? CASE #8 Overlawyered.com, July ?02, III CR ? race Govt. Liability (School) Case name? Vincent Peries, a Sri Lankan teacher in the NY public schools, was harassed by his Special Education students, who made fun of his accent and ethnicity. Students were deemed to have created a hostile work environment. Settled: $50,000 ?Teacher made fun of by students: $50,000? CASE #9 Overlawyered.com, June ?02, II Negligence Case name? A woman lied down on the tracks in a tunnel of New York?s subway system. She was subsequently hit by the E-Train, and her face and hands badly injured. She denied that she was trying to commit suicide, saying she ?couldn?t remember? why she had lied down on the tracks. Six minutes before the accident, a 911 call came in from someone who had seen her on the tracks. Subway officials were able to contact the driver, who slowed down to between 10 and 15mph. In such a case, less than 10mph is the policy. Plaintiff contended he would have been able to stop in time if he had slowed down to the lower speed. Jury: $14.1 million; reduced to $9.9 million because the judge found the woman to be 30% responsible for the accident. ?Hit by subway car: $9.9 million? CASE #10 Overlawyered.com, April, 2002, III Toxic Torts ? mold. Case name? TV personality Ed McMahon sued (who) after toxic mold growing in his house ruined the house and killed his pet dog. Confidential settlement amount, but reported to be $7 million by a national mold litigation magazine (a national litigation mold magazine?). ?Toxic mold in house: $7 million? CASE #11 Overlawyered.com, Feb, 2002, I Fraud Case name? Two women who said they were deceived by leaders of a fundamentalist church called, ?The True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints of the Last Days? because the Church had promised to produce Jesus Christ in the flesh, in exchange for substantial contributions from the ladies ? namely, property and water rights. When the Lord failed to appear, they sued. Jury: $270,000 to Kaziah Hancok (spelling?) and $20,000 to Cindy Stewart. ?Church promises Jesus will appear: $290,000? CASE #12 Overlawyered.com, Jan, 2002, III Premises ? slip and fall Hernandez v. J.C. Penney Hernandez, a shopper in California at a day after Christmas sale, slipped and fell on hangars, clothes, and other debris on the ground at the hectic J.C. Penney store. She hurt her knee, ankle, and lumbar region of her spine. Both the store?s Department Manager and Assistant Manager had been on break at the time, and all of the other sales people were busy assisting other customers, so the jury found that the store had provided inadequate supervision. Settled: $349,999 ?Slipped and fell while shopping: $349,999? CASE #13 Overlawyered.com, Dec, 2001, II Premises ? workman?s comp Case? Nathan Lett, a deliveryman for Aramark Corp. in Illinois, was attacked by Canadian Geese on his employer?s property. He filed a workman?s compensation claim because he had broken his wrist while defending himself from the birds. He asserted that the company had ?a duty to warn workers because the building was in an area that attracked geese.? Panel awarded him: $17,000 ?Attacked by geese: $17,000? CASE #14 Overlawyered.com, Nov, 2001, I CR ? reverse harassment suit/Right to Privacy Case name? A male employee was accused of rape by a co-worker at their company, Rohm & Haas. The company immediately investigated the claim, per their sex harassment policy, subjecting the male to a ?police style interrogation.? The male argued that the company invaded his privacy and embarrassed him with the investigation and said that investigating a charge of rape was really a matter for the police to investigate, not the company. Jury: $150,000 to male. Jury: Also found his accuser to be guilty of defamation of his character, but decline to order her to pay him any money. ?Falsely accused of rape: $150,000? CASE #15 Overlawyered.com, Aug., 2000,I CR ? race Class Action Case name? Twenty-one African-American employees sued Interstate Bakeries, the makers of ?Wonder Bread,? charging that the company maintained a hostile work environment in which racial slurs were tolerated and African-Americans were seldom promoted. One man testified that he had not been allowed to take off Martin Luther King Day, even though causasian workers where given time off to watch a San Francisco Giants baseball game. Jury: $11 million in compensatory damages and also $121 million in punitive damages, the latter of which was reduced by the judge to $24 million. That?ll buy some baseball tickets! ?Racial slurs by supervisors: $35 million? CASE #16 Overlawyered.com, Aug., 2000, III Negligence/School Nieuwendorp v. American Family Insurance Co. In 1995, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a jury verdict against the parents of a child who attacked his teacher at school. The child had been diagnosed with Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder, and had been prescribed Ritalin, but the parents had taken the child off the medicine. The child, a 4th grade special education student, subsequently attacked the teacher, pulling her hair, as a result of which she fell to the ground and hurt her back. The jury decided the parents were at fault not because they had taken the child off of the medication, but because they had failed to warn the school that they had done do. Jury: $170,000 to teacher ?Teacher attacked by 4th grader: $170,000? CASE #17 Overlawyered.com, Oct., 2000, III Consumer Fraud/Products Liability Case name? A Texas couple who bought a Dodge Ram pick-up truck for use in their horse-transportation business sued Chrysler and their dealership, claiming that they were misled as to the truck?s towing capacity. The couple did not suffer any physical injury, but the vehicle was not strong enough to pull their horse trailers. As a result, they ended up losing their horse-transportation business, and the husband suffered depression. Jury awarded them $83.5 million, of which $82.5 million were punitive damages. Follow up? See Margaret Cronin Fisk, ?Jury Tags Chrysler for $83 million? in Nat?l Law Journal. ?Defrauded by car dealer and car maker: $83.5 million? CASE #18 Overlawyered.com, July, 2000, III Retaliation Case name? Vanessa Steele Inman, a stripper, sued the Miss Nude World International pageant and the Pink Pony Strip Club in Atlanta. She maintained that rigged balloting had favored another contestant, and that she was blackballed at clubs throughout the country in retaliation for refusing to do lap dances, be auctioned off to golfers, or allow her breasts to be covered with whipped cream for a whipped cream eating contest. Jury: $2.4 million, of which $835,000 was compensatory and $1.6 million was punitive. ?Stripper blackballed by strip clubs: $2.4 million? CASE #19 Overlawyered.com, June, 2000, I CR - Sex Case name? A group of female members of Haverhill Golf and Country Club in Boston sued their club, alleging that the club?s policy did not allow them to tee-off at the most desirable times, for example on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Jury: $1.9 million to the women, and sensitivity training for the club. ?Female golfers given bad tee-off times: $1.9 million? CASE #20 Overlawyered.com, May, 2000, II Alienation of Affections Case name? Candi Vessel, of Utah, sued her cheating husband?s girlfriend, for ?alienation of affections.? Jury: Husband?s new girlfriend must pay the wife $500,000. ?Wife sues cheating husband?s girlfriend: $500,000? CASE #21 Overlawyered.com, May, 2000, II CR ? sex Case name? Peter Corradino, a waiter at TGIFridays, complained of female employees touching him and grabbing for his private parts. When he protested their actions, male employees called him names like ?fag? and ?queer.? He complained to management, and brought suit for sexual harassment. Jury: $125,000 ?Man sexually harassed by female co-workers: $125,000? CASE #22 Overlawyered.com, May, 2000, III Negligence? Case name? Linda K. Powers, 41, a dental hygienist from Atlanta, sued her dance partner, Mike D. Lastufka. The two were dancing when her partner tried a ?shag-style spin move? and broke her thumb in the process. Jury: $220,000 for the broken thumb. ?Thumb broken by dance partner: $220,000? CASE #23 Overlawyered.com, March, 2000, I Fraud Case name? Barbara Carlisle and her parents, George and Velma Merriwether, bought two satellite dishes for a cost of $1100 dollars each in 1995. They contend that the company, Gulf Coast Electronics, tried to gouge them out of $1200 by using a tricky financing scheme created by Whirlpool Financial National Bank. Gulf Coast Electronics settled for an undisclosed amount during the trial. Jury ordered Whirlpool to pay the family $581 million, the punitive portion of which the judge reduced to a mere $300 million. ?Ripped off by satellite TV salesman: $300 million? CASE #24 Overlawyered.com, Feb., 2000, I CR ? excessive force/Dog bite Case name? Mindro Donchev, an escaped murderer from Bulgaria, lived for over ten years in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, surviving by breaking into vacant vacation cabins. In 1998, during an arrest for burglary of one of the cabins, he was confronted by police, and, armed with ?knives, handguns, and a pointed stick,? resisted arrest. In the struggle to arrest him, a police dog mangled his foot, leading to the eventual loss of two of his toes. He sued for the use of excessive force. Jury: $412,500 for the burglar?s loss of two toes. ?Mauled by police dog: $413,500? CASE #25 Overlawyered.com, Jan, 2000, II CR ? race/Retaliation Case name? Eunice Lafate sued her employer, Chase Manhattan Bank, contending she?d been passed over for promotion because of her race. She lost the case. But then she brought a second suit, alleging that subsequent to the first lawsuit, she had been cut out of management meetings and given bad evaluations in retaliation for having sued. Jury: $600,000 ?Retaliated against for bringing suit against company: $600,000? CASE #26 Overlawyered.com, April, 2000, I Products Liability Faryniarz v. Nike Ms. Faryniarz, an orthopedic surgeon, trip and fell while jogging in Nike shoes. She asserted that the shoes? shoelaces were ?too long? and that they caught in a pull tab on the back of the opposite shoe which was ?too rigid,? and thus caused her fall, during which she sustained injuries to her hands and wrists that interfered with her doing her job as an orthopedic surgeon. She sued for $10 million dollars on each of three counts of product liability. Outcome? ?Fell because shoelaces were too long: $10 million? CASE #27 Overlawyered.com, November ?03 Govt. Negligence NO NAME OF PLAINTIFF OR DEFENDANT GIVEN. Need to have these and others looked up. Somali refugee badly beaten up by foster kids living in a foster home in West Seattle. State was shown to be negligent because state social workers did not put the kids who assaulted the refugee in a ?more restrictive? environment. (One possible reason for this was because state laws require foster kids to be put in ?the least restrictive, most family-like?setting possible.) Jury: $8.8 million from State of Washington; $300,000 ffrom Shell Oil because the beating took place at a gas station franchised by the company. Note: see also, Sept. 13-14 ?Beaten up by foster kids. State pays $8.8 million?

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  Dear wordwarp-ga; Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting question. The cases you cited are, for the most part, actual cases and not urban legends as earlier surmised. This not only lends to their entertainment value but it also makes them confirmable through other sources. You may find in some instances the facts were a bit amiss or the awards might have been eventually reduced, lessening the impact of the cases in terms of how outrageous they were in reality. In at least one instance, the award was largely symbolic as local law actually limited the extreme punitive award to a certain percentage of the actual damages. Below I have listed those that I was able to find (22 cases of the 27 cases you mentioned - please note: cases #11 and #15 had two cases each. Case #5 also had two cases but I could only locate one of them.). In every instance I found the legal title of the case mentioned in an article on the internet (nothing tricky about that) and did not use a legal database such as Lexis Nexis, but you may find that useful in locating the ones I was unable to find: CASE #1 This was a tough one and I didn?t have any luck with it. This one can probably be found by searching a legal database or local court records. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #2 This one proved to be elusive also though I did find credible references to it. The plaintiff?s name is SHANNON SCHWEITZER: ?GIRL WINS $51 MILLION IN STREETCAR CASE? http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-1/106214019743080.xml I?m confident that this case can eventually be found in some database, local court record, or newspaper due to the notoriety of the attorney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #3 (The plaintiff?s name was misspelled in your question. The correct spelling of his last name is ?GOUSSE? and he was a Haitian immigrant surgeon visiting Los Angeles for a medical conference) Gousse v. City of Los Angeles, Case No. BC 252804. SOURCE: BUSINESS WIRE http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0EIN/2003_Oct_22/109141633/p1/article.jhtml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #4 SHANNA SHIPMAN AS NEXT FRIEND OF SHANNON MOORE, A MINOR VS. PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES, INC.; PHILIP MORRIS INCORPORATED; PHILIP MORRIS U.S.A.; and SHELLY MOORE SOURCE: UNTITLED http://www.waltman.com/PhilipMorris/pleading.txt SMOKEFREE.NET http://www.smokefree.net/bg-announce/messages/246977.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #5 & 5A No luck with the first one though I?m confident that this case can also be found using the right database. I did however find the second one: HANKINS v EL TORITO (Employee Rest Room) 63 CA4 510 [See: 42 USC 12181 etseq; CivC 51, 52, 54 etseq; Donald v Cafe Royale 218 CA3 168] SOURCE: HANKINS v EL TORITO http://www.advance-tapes.com/at1998/1998/06/ats1981.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #6 This one was tough but once I got the name right I found it easily. The plaintiff?s name was misspelled in your question. The correct spelling is ?CHERYL VANDEVENDER?: No. 23463 - Cheryl L. Vandevender, Plaintiff Below, Appellee v. Sheetz, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, Defendant Below, Appellant and Karen Foltz, Defendant Below, Appellee SOURCE: UNTITLED http://www.state.wv.us/wvsca/docs%5Cspring97%5C23463d.htm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #7 Gober et al. v. Ralph's Grocery Inc., No. N72142, remittitur ordered (Cal. Super. Ct., San Diego County, 7/15/2002) SOURCE: EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION REPORTER http://www.andrewspub.com/rptr_desc.asp?pub=EMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #8 Peries v. New York City Board of Education, 2001 WL 1328921 (E.D.N.Y. 2001). SOURCE: SLADE & ASSOCIATES http://www.sladelaw.com/cases.htm (2/3 the way down the page) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #9 I found many reliable references to this but no actual case name. The plaintiff?s name was SEONG SIL KIM so presumably this was ?Kim v City of New York? or perhaps ?Seong v City of New York?. I?ll let you decide if this suffices: SACRAMENTO BEE http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/opinions/story/732014p-5341436c.html NEW YORKERS FOR CIVIL JUSTICE REFORM http://www.nycjr.org/art2.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE#10 McMahon v. American Equity Insurance Co., et al., No. BC271423 (Calif. Super. Ct., Los Angeles Cty.) SOURCE: THE IEQ REVIEW http://www.imakenews.com/pureaircontrols/e_article000154071.cfm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #11 & #11A IN THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR COUNTY OF SAN PETE, STATE OF UTAH KAZIAH MAY HANCOCK, and, CINDY SUE STEWERT Plaintiff vs JAMES D. HARMSTON, THE TRUE AND LIVING CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF SAINTS OF THE LAST DAYS, ET. AL. SOURCE: LAW SUIT AGAINST JAMES D. HARMSTON AND THE TRUE AND LIVING CHURCH OF CHRIST (TLC) http://polygamybooks.com/lawtlc.htm Hancock v. True & Living Church of Jesus Christ of the Saints of the Last Days, Utah, Sanpete County Dist. Ct.: 84 SOURCE: PN INDEX http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=%22Hancock+V%22+%22LIVING+CHURCH%22&ei=UTF-8&n=20&fl=0&url=wv-igmk0ft8J:www.atla.org/subs/PNLRindex02.pdf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #12 Hernandez v. J.C. Penney Co. Inc., No. VC 030 725 (L.A. County) SOURCE: OVERLAYERED.COM http://overlawyered.com/archives/02/jan3.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #13 The plaintiff?s name was misspelled in your question. The correct spelling is ?NOLAN LETT?. I found many references to the case but no direct case information. I don?t believe you?ll find this one, I suspect that it may not have been a trial, but rather an Illinois Workers Compensation hearing: ??an Illinois panel has approved a $17,000 settlement?? http://overlawyered.com/archives/01/dec2.html VITELL & SPITZ http://www.vitellspitzlaw.com/resources.asp ANANOVA - MAN WINS COMPENSATION AFTER GOOSE CHASE AT WORK http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_414481.html?menu= . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE#14 I found no case number but I did find a simple reference to the case: Mark Jackson v. Rohm & Haas SOURCE: RHOADES & SINON http://www.rhoads-sinon.com/newsandevents/archives/legalupdates/shill08.htm 2003 PREMESIS LIABILITY http://www.premises-liability.net/pl_cases.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #15 & #15A Carroll, et al. v. Interstate Brands Corp., et al. (Case No.:995728) and Bryant, et al. v. Interstate Brands Corp., et al. (Case No.:304142) SOURCE: JURY FINDS FOR "WONDER BREAD" PLAINTIFFS; ALIOTO SAYS VERDICT WILL HELP PREVENT JOB DISCRIMINATION http://www.angelaalioto.com/pr/PR073100.html WORKERS WIN BIG IN BIAS SUIT; WONDER BREAD TO APPEAL (and also) INTERSTATE BAKERIES DOESN'T GET STAY OF PUNITIVE-DAMAGES AWARD http://www.digitalcity.com/houston/national_hotissue/main.adp?page=wonder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #16 Nieuwendorp v. American Family Insurance Co., 529 NW.2d 594 (Wisc. 1995). SOURCE: QUARTERLY REPORT JULY-SEPTEMBER, 1997 http://ideanet.doe.state.in.us/legal/pdf/quarterly_reports/1997_julsep.pdf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #17 Sellers v. Chrysler Corp. No. 296-1283-98 (Dist. Ct., Collins Co., Texas). (The story sounds good for the purposes it serves, but the whole story wasn?t told. The award against Chrysler was actually reduced from $80 million to $1.4 million due to a Texas cap law in effect that limits awards to three times the actual economic damages, but the dealer was ordered to pay $2.5 million) SOURCE: JURY TAGS CHRYSLER FOR $83 MILLION http://www.law.com/jsp/statearchive.jsp?type=Article&oldid=ZZZ6J9KIXDC Express New Car Warranties Under State Law http://www.bigclassaction.com/dear_lawyer/vol1no14.html (Near the end of the article) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #18 Date: 9/27/00 Case Style: Vanessa Steele Inman v. Jack Galardi, et. al. Case Number: E-65732 Judge: L.A. McConnell Court: Superior Court, Fulton County, Georgia SOURCE: STEELE v GILARDI http://www.morelaw.com/verdicts/case.asp?n=E%2D65732&s=GA%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&d=11293 CASE CITATION: LEARNING TO BE A LAWYER http://www.gabar.org/pdf/gbj/feb01.pdf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #19 Docket No.: 01-P-1705 Parties: JUDITH BORNE & others(1) vs. HAVERHILL GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB, INC. (and a companion case(2)). County: Suffolk. Dates: December 19, 2002. - June 13, 2003. Present: Greenberg, Kass, & Cohen, JJ. Anti-Discrimination Law, Sex, Prima facie case, Burden of proof, Damages, Attorney's fees. Constitutional Law, Sex discrimination. Practice, Civil, Instructions to jury, Directed verdict. Evidence, State of mind, Emotional state. Damages, Remittitur, Punitive, Attorney's fees. Injunction. Contempt. SOURCE: UNTITLED: http://www.socialaw.com/appslip/appJune03g.html THE OFFICE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEY GENERAL APPEALS COURT ARGUMENT SET FOR TOMORROW IN HAVERHILL COUNTRY CLUB SEX DISCRIMINATION CASE http://www.ago.state.ma.us/txt/haverhillcc.htm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #20 I found some unconfirmed references to the case but no case information. The facts in this case are too unclear to research. You may have trouble finding this one until you know more exact details regarding the parties? names: THE SUN http://www.thesunlink.com/news/2000/february/0211say.html (Here the plaintiff is called CANDACE WAGNER) ALIENATION OF AFFECTION' LAWSUITS A BACKWARD RELIC http://www.equityfeminism.com/articles/2000/000008.html (Here the plaintiff is called CANDIE VESSEL) LIST ARCHIVES http://listarchives.his.com/smartmarriages/smartmarriages.0005/msg00010.html (Here the plaintiff is called CANDI VESSEL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #21 I found some unconfirmed references to the case but no case information. This case can probably be located in a legal database, local court records or newspaper. http://www.8bm.com/diatribes/volume01/diatribes038/diatribes764-784/diatribes774.htm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE# 22 I found unconfirmed references to the case but no case information. This case can probably be located also in the right a legal database, local court records or newspaper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #23 In this instance the parent?s names were misspelled in your question. The correct spelling of their last name should be ?Merriweather?, however this did not have a great deal of impact on the title of the case. (This is just an FYI for the sake of accuracy): Carlisle v. Whirlpool Fin. Nat?l. Bank, No. 97-068 (Circuit Court of Hale County, Alabama) SOURCE: CASE CITATION http://home.olemiss.edu/~llibcoll/ndms/may2000/00D0070P.rtf CJ ONLINE http://cjonline.com/stories/051199/new_jackpot.shtml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE #24 Again, the plaintiff?s name was misspelled in your question, which threw me off for a while. The correct spelling is ?Mincho Donchev?. However, I was able to locate it eventually: Case Number C98-1199 Short Case Title Mincho Donchev v. Rick Bart, et al. Judge Assigned TSZ Nature of Suit 550 - Prisoner - Civil Rights Division Seattle Date Filed 08/27/98 SOURCE: UNTITLED http://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/wawd/98caselst.nsf/0/b805d50f859e715b8825666d0083396a?OpenDocument REASON MAGAZINE http://reason.com/0103/co.wo.overlawyered.shtml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE# 25: Lafate v. Chase Manhattan Band, 123 F.Supp.2d 773 (D.Del. 2000) SOURCE: SHOOTING THE MESSENGER http://www.npelra.org/2003conference/messenger.pdf CACHE: EMPLOYMENT LAW CENTER http://web.archive.org/web/20000815224626/http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/stories/A10908-1999Dec6.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE# 26: Deborah Faryniarz v. Nike Inc., No. 00-Civ. 2623 [NRB], S.D. N.Y.; 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15825 Shepardize. SOURCE: BENNETT LAW FIRM http://www.bennettlawfirm.com/mealey.htm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CASE # 27 STATE OF WASHINGTON KING COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT SAID ABA SHEIKH, Plaintiff, v. KEVIN S. CHOE and KUM S. CHOE, dba SOUTH SEATTLE MARKET, a sole proprietorship; SHELL CORPORATION, a foreign corporation; HEIGHT POINT MINI MART & DELI, a domestic nonprofit corporation; STATE OF WASHINGTON; KING COUNTY; EMMA DANIELS; MICHAEL GALLOW; MYCHAL ANDERSON; PULEFANO ATIVALU; and MIGUEL T. PIERRE, Defendants. NO. 02-2-05199-5 SEA SOURCE: TRIAL BRIEF http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/word/TrialBrief.doc SOURCE: SEATTLE TIMES http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001794141_foster18m.html I truly enjoyed this challenge. I hope you find that my research exceeds your expectations. If you have any questions about my research please post a clarification request prior to rating the answer. Otherwise I welcome your rating and your final comments and I look forward to working with you again in the near future. Thank you for bringing your question to us. Best regards; Tutuzdad-ga ? Google Answers Researcher INFORMATION SOURCES Defined in each instance above. 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