Posts for Courts

An Indiana woman is suing Carnival Cruise Lines, claiming she got sick on a Carnival cruise ship because “it was going too fast.”

An Indiana Court of Appeals took up the case this week. According to the court documents, the woman said that "due to the speed of the ship I became very sick ... the ship was moving so fast everyone on board became sick, even the workers."

While we don’t disagree that some schools in this country are underperforming and doing a disservice to our children, this story takes it a bit too far.

New York City schools are notorious for their competitiveness among the city’s upper crust. The competition heats up for parents as early as nursery school, where some will go to extreme lengths to get their kids into a good school.  That’s why it may not have seemed all that odd to Manhattanites when one of their own sued a $19,000-a-year preschool her daughter attended, “arguing that the program failed to adequately prepare her daughter for the test required to enter New York City’s hypercompetitive private school system.”

Editor's Note: Project Lawsuit Abuse regularly features the voices of advocates from across the country. Today, Christine Vara, lead contributor at Shot of Prevention, is contributing a guest post. 

Sean “Diddy” Combs has seen his share of drama in life, but we’re pretty sure he couldn’t have predicted that he’d be sued for claims that he was responsible for the attacks on the United States on 9/11. 

A Los Angeles woman recently filed a lawsuit against Combs, asking for $900 billion dollars in child support – for a child she claims was fathered by Combs - and $100 billion dollars for "loss of income.”

The woman believes Combs, his ex-girlfriend and LAPD brutality victim Rodney King were behind the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Here are some of the woman’s claims: