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The Litigious Society
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In Orange County, California, in May psychologist Michael Cohn filed a class-action suit against the Los Angeles Angels baseball team seeking $4,000 damages for each of the male fans and female fans under 18 who attended the Angels game on Mother’s Day 2005 and weren’t given a complimentary tote bag. And in June Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal–the notorious terrorist of the 70s and 80s now serving life in a French prison for three murders–filed a lawsuit alleging that the former head of French foreign intelligence illegally had him kidnapped in 1994 at a clinic in Khartoum, Sudan, while he was sedated prior to liposuction.
Bodies in Motion
After 14-year-old Caitlin Campbell of Amarillo, Texas, finished eighth in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in June, a local billboard company welcomed her home with a large downtown sign on which her name was spelled wrong. (They forgot the p.)
No Longer Weird: A Look Back
