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Frivolous lawsuits.



    Florida boy, 12, divorces parents.

    Yes, this case has actually happened. The boy has had plenty
of coaching and help from Your Glorious Leaders

    Carolyn Rogers of Detroit, MI was awarded 7.5 million
dollars. She sued the Detroit Police Department for being
irresponsible in causing the death of her husband, a bystander
that was killed by a speeding teen ager who was fleeing the
police.

    Shannon Freeman, 17, was awarded 5.4 million in an out of
court settlement after she was paralyzed in a diving accident
while practicing a racing dive at the Birmingham School of
Detroit. September 1990. Your Glorious Leaders got that offending
pool removed.

    Two sheriff deputies were awarded $5.3 million for injuries
suffered in an escape attempt by a prisoner. The two deputies
sued the county, the Sheriff, and other officials because a
fellow deputy smuggled in a gun to the prisoner.

    California county sued when mountain lion attacked a kid in
the county park. Your Glorious Leaders made sure that the parks
were put off limits to kids.

    Locally, the victims of a fatal car crash are being sued by
the passengers of the car that ran the stop sign at high speed
causing the fatal crash.

    David G. Mitchell sustained a knee injury in September, 1989
while playing ball at a picnic sponsored by the Portland area
auto dealer where he worked. He sued and is collecting workmans
comp.

    A two way mirror was discovered in the honeymoon suite of
the Canterbury Inn of Coralville, Iowa, by a unmarried couple.
The super embarrassed pair sued the motel and were awarded 4.3
million of which the pair split 1 million.

    A physic sued the manufacturer of a CAT scan machine because
the machine caused her to lose her physic powers. She was awarded
1 million dollars.

    September 92. The mother of a Flint schoolboy who was
seduced by a lunchroom aids is suing the woman, the Flint Board
of Education, and two school officials for mental distress and
humiliation.

    The school aide is serving 3 to 15 years in prison for first
degree sexual misconduct with a minor.

    Glendale, California. September 92. A jury has awarded $1.25
million to the parents of a boy who died of exposure sleeping in
a tent during a school trip. The Boojum Institute for
Experimental Education was found negligence in the death of their
son Kenneth, when the night turn cold and rainy.

    A mother of a 6 year old girl is filing a sex discrimination
suit against the school board because her kid is being exposed to
the foul language of 7 year olds while riding on the bus to
school. (Rush Limbaugh show).

BLOOMINGDALE (AP) October, 1992;

    A teen-ager has sued his public high school, demanding that
school officials remove a painting of Jesus Christ that's been
hanging in the hallways for about 30 years.

    The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in
Kalamazoo by Eric Pensinger, a 17 -year-old senior at
Bloomingdale Public High School, and his mother Dott Washegesic,
says "it is highly offensive and disturbing to (Pensinger) to be
forced to attend a public school which is openly endorsing and
promoting a religion."

    The large print was donated to the Van Buren County school
about 3O years ago, school officials said.

    Kalamazoo attorney Susan Fall, who is representing Pensinger
on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, says the display
of religious art in a publicly funded school is a clear violation
of the state and U.S. Constitution. (Bullshit! No wonder this
country is in such a mess.)

DALLAS (AP)

    The sleeping pill Halcion was partly to blame for turning a
former cop into a killer, a jury decided in the nation's first
civil trial over the sleeping pill's alleged side effects.

    The Dallas County jury awarded up to $2.l5 million Thursday
to the family of William Freeman, who said Halcion, the world's
best-selling sleeping pill, altered his personality and caused
him to kill a friend.

    But the actual damage award, which still must be approved by
a judge, is likely to be less because the jury divided the blame
among Freeman, his doctor and Upjohn Co., maker of Halcion.

    Similar cases against Upjohn are pending around the country
Spokeswoman Kaye Bennett said the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based company
would appeal the judgment. Freeman, former assistant police chief
of Fort Stockton, Texas, began taking Halcion in early 1985 after
back surgery, according to testimony in the five-week trial
Relatives said his personality gradually changed and he started
experiencing amnesia, psychosis and paranoia, some of the drug's
reported side effects.

    He was convicted in 1989 and sentenced to life in prison for
the 1987 killing of a friend.

    Freeman stopped taking the drug while in prison and family
members said his personality returned to normal.

    The Freemans sued Upjohn and Freeman's doctor, Aaron Landy,
for more than $100 million after seeing a TV report on Halcion.

    But the jury said Freeman was half responsible for the
crime, and so entitled to none of the award.

    The jury said 30 percent of the blame is with Landy and 20
percent with Upjohn. The jury ruled tbe company was negligent but
did not act with malice.

    The award would go to Freeman's wife, Martha, and four
children.

    Martha Freeman said the ruling would be used to appeal his
conviction and seek a new criminal trial.

    The Food and Drug Administration approved Halcion for use in
1982.

    It is sold in more than 90 countries, but several, including
Great Britian, have banned or restricted its consumption .

    Public Citizen, the private advocacy group led by Ralph
Nader, in July petitioned the FDA to ban the drug in the United
States. An FDA advisory panel, comprised of medical experts, in
May said the drug was safe, but should carry stronger warnings
about its potential side effects.

    February 4, 1993. A Georga family was awarded $105.2 million
from General Motors as a result of their son's death in a fiery
crash in his GM pickup truck. It is not known if the drunk that
caused the accident was ever sued or held criminally responsable
for his actions.

    May 25, 1993. A California jury ordered Hyundai Motor
Company to pay $15 million to a boy left blind and crippled after
a car crash. Adams was 9 when his mother drove the 1988 Hyundai
Excel into the rear of an illegally parked tractor trailer on a
freeway ramp. The jury said that the seat belt system was
defective and that Hyundai failed to warn consumers of the
potentional hazard to children.

    The Panic Society will put up with none of this. Lawyers
have been replaced with the Judge and Jury program to determine
guilt or innocence.

    Since people are not allowed to do any of those things that
the lawsuits resulted in, those cases would never happen in the
Panic Society.

    Your glorious leaders own everything and provide everything.
Therefore, there is nothing to sue for.