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Murder Victim's Parents Sue Facebook Over Crime Scene Photo
By David Lohr - AOL NewsThe family of a New York murder victim has filed a civil suit against Facebook and others, including an ex-EMT who posted a graphic picture of their daughter's body to the social networking website. "This is on the second anniversary of our daughter's death. I just want to get by, day by day," the victim's mother, Martha Wimmer, told reporters Monday from the steps of the Supreme Court in St. George. Wimmer's daughter, Caroline Wimmer, 26, was found strangled to death with a hair dryer cord in her Staten Island apartment on March 30, 2009. Investigators estimated she had been dead for two ...
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NY Fashion Exec Sues for $2 Million After Transfer to New Jersey
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsA senior manager at the New York fashion house Elie Tahari claims he had a mental breakdown after being forced to travel to New Jersey for work and is suing the company for $2 million. Thomas Horodecki says he was discriminated against by his Israeli bosses and passed over for promotions at work because he was Christian and Polish. But the New York fashion executive says the company took the alleged discrimination a bridge too far when it banished him to franchises in New Jersey after he complained. In an interview with the New York Post, Horodecki, 36, says his weekly trips to New Jersey ...
Inglorious Macaws: Tarantino Sues Neighbor Over 'Blood-Curdling' Bird Screams
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsQuentin Tarantino may be known for cameo appearances in his own films, but it seems he'd rather not find himself in Hitchcock's horror-classic "The Birds." Citing "blood-curdling" and "pterodactyl-like screams," the "Kill Bill" director has filed a lawsuit against his Oscar-winning neighbor Alan Ball over the distracting shrieks of Ball's "exotic bird menagerie." Tarantino says the macaws are disrupting progress on his latest film and that his neighbors have "done little to eliminate the daily cacophony," The Telegraph reports. "The defendants know that their birds issue blood-curdling, ...
Car Crash Victim Sues Paramedic Who Stole His Foot
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsShe stole his foot -- and now she might have to foot the bill. A former Florida paramedic who snatched a man's severed foot from the scene of a car crash is being sued by the victim. Cynthia Economou -- a former St. Lucie County Fire District firefighter and paramedic -- admitted that she took Karl Lambert's mangled foot in hopes of using the limb to help train her cadaver-sniffing dog after a wreck on I-95 on Sept. 19, 2008. She pleaded no contest to petty theft charges and was sentenced to six months' probation. But now Lambert is taking her to court in a civil case, seeking unspecified ...
British Dentist Suspended for Farting and Belching on Job
By David Moye - AOL NewsSome dentists use laughing gas on the job, but one British dentist has been suspended for using the human kind instead. Authorities at the British General Dental Council say they will remove Matthew Walton, 35, from the official Dentist's Register next month for a variety of offensive offenses, including farting and belching in front of patients and staff. In addition, Walton has been accused of swearing and making "V-sign" hand gestures to patients and staff behind their backs. Getty Images British dentist Matthew Walton has had his license suspended for a variety of offenses, ...
NYC Teachers Sue City for Slander Over Lesbian Sex Allegations
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsTwo New York City high school teachers accused of having a sexual romp in a classroom are suing the city for $2 million for ruining their reputations. Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro were fired last month after a state arbitrator's report concluded that the pair of language teachers were having a "sexual encounter" when school custodians walked in on them in November 2009. But the duo filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court claiming wrongful termination, libel and slander, the New York Daily News reports. "They've had to deal with these false allegations of engaging in lesbian sex," ...
NJ Woman Has Second Thoughts Over $5M Suit for 80-Cent Dispute
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsA New Jersey woman who sued the Century 21 department store for $5 million for allegedly depriving her of 80 cents on a coupon has decided not to go to court after all. Tova Gerson, 32, had alleged that the department store "unjustly enriched" itself with the coupon, according to the New York Post, and filed a $5 million class-action lawsuit in Manhattan. In another set of court papers, Gerson dropped the suit, according to the New York Daily News. New York Daily News Saying Century 21 ripped her off when she returned an item using a coupon, Tova Gerson had filed a $5 million ...
Madoff Lawsuit: Mets Owners Owe Victims $300 Million
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- The owners of the Mets turned a blind eye to Bernard Madoff's massive fraud, reaping $300 million in false profits and using a large chunk to run the team, according to a lawsuit unsealed Friday. The lawsuit claims the owners were so dependent on the disgraced financier's too-good-to-be-true returns that they "faced a severe and immediate liquidity crisis" when Madoff's crimes were revealed in 2009. The searing allegations were made by Irving Picard, the trustee appointed to recover funds for investors burned by Madoff's scheme. The suit filed by Picard in federal bankruptcy ...
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