Comic's Mother-in-Law Sues Over Jokes

Woman claims drunk cast members knocked her down

(NEWSER) - This has got to be some sort of record: Jersey Shore and its cast members have now racked up 15 lawsuits in two years. The latest, courtesy of Courthouse News Service : A woman celebrating her niece's birthday at a bar in Seaside Heights, NJ, claims that drunk Jersey Shore cast members caused a brawl that eventually involved club security and show security. In the chaos, she was struck and hit her head, resulting in "severe and permanent injuries," according to her lawsuit. More»

'Jane Doe' must re-file suit under real name or drop case

(NEWSER) - A bizarre celebrity lawsuit takes an amusing twist. The actress suing Amazon.com for $1 million because the Internet Movie Database, which Amazon owns, revealed her real age, must reveal something of her own: her name. The Hollywood Reporter explains that a US District Court judge yesterday ruled that "the injury she fears"—apparently, that she'll be blacklisted in Hollywood—"is not severe enough to justify permitting her to proceed anonymously." And so "Jane Doe" has 14 days to re-file under her true name or drop the case. She claims IMDb got her age via her credit card information when she subscribed to IMDbPro in 2008. Click for more on the case. More»

Claims reality star beat her up at club in 2009

(NEWSER) - Khloe Kardashian's shining moment as the reasonable Kardashian might have hit an abrupt end: Seems Kim and Kourtney's kid sister is being sued by a transgender woman who claims Khloe started a catfight at a club in 2009, reports TMZ . Chantal Spears, also known as Ronald Spears, says that Kardashian "pushed and hit" her "in and about her body" after Spears gave soon-to-be husband Lamar Odom a little unsolicited advice. "All I was telling Lamar Odom is maybe he is too young to get married and all of a sudden I get this big push from this girl," says Spears. More»

They should have been paid for non-educational tasks, they argue

(NEWSER) - Conventional wisdom states that being an unpaid intern means making an awful lot of coffee, but two such interns decided not to take that sort of treatment lying down. Alex Footman and Eric Glatt are suing Fox Searchlight Pictures over their Black Swan internships, claiming that the production company violated minimum wage and overtime laws by assigning only menial—not educational—tasks to the interns. Such tasks should have been performed by paid employees, they argue; labor rules require employers to provide an educational experience in order to be exempted from paying interns. More»

There was a good reason to sue over hot coffee

(NEWSER) - We’ve all heard the complaints: America is the land of lawsuits, the kind of place that has to label its coffee with “Warning: Hot!” But Cracked takes a second look at the frivolous lawsuits of legend:

• Woman sues McDonald’s for millions ... because her coffee was hot. The coffee she spilled was hot enough to give her third-degree burns over 6% of her body. And she actually got just $640,000, some of which went to pay for skin grafts. Plus, the jury still called the accident 20% her fault, and reduced the award accordingly.