The powers that be behind Match.com make some hefty claims to entice would-be subscribers to lay down $40 a month for membership. They say 20,000 singles join the online dating community every day, and that hundreds of thousands of people find love on the site each year. But one unsatisfied subscriber says these claims are false.
Caution, social media users of America: Facebook could get you sued. Or, rather, it could get you sued if you lead someone on while playing Mafia Wars.
A group of former Atlantic City cocktail waitresses is suing the casino where they worked after being fired because they were "too old" to wear a sexy new outfit the resort debuted. The Hotel Resorts Casino has found itself the target of a discrimination lawsuit by nine of the 16 women it gave pink slips to after it introduced a back-baring flapper-inspired waitress uniform over Memorial Day weekend.
In a dog eat dog world, life can be pretty tough sometimes. It can be even tougher when someone doesn’t accept us for who we are, for our sexual orientation, etc. And such is for El’Jai Devoureau--a transgendered woman who is suing the company who recently fired him.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words but for British couple Martin and Heidi Shubrook, a video is worth a thousand dollars. When Martin and Heidi received their video, all they saw was grass. Literally. Plus other shots that were taken at odd-angles. So, they did what any couple would do: they sued. The two were awarded $1,000 for the mishap.
Can we just say this? What happens in Vegas does not stay there. Just ask almost-groom Robert Leighton, who definitely found that out the hard way. Apparently, the Chicago lawyer went a bit too far at his bachelor party and was hit with a lawsuit courtesy of his ex-bride-to-be. She discovered his Sin-City hook-up, and he discovered that poor decisions always crawl back home with you.
Divorce can be a messy business. As if the emotional fallout from a broken marriage weren't stressful enough, the legal bills and settlements are a major point of concern for spouses who have an entire lifestyle to lose. In response to the rising costs of divorce, firms like Balance Point Divorce Funding, have begun investing money into divorce proceedings for a cut of the winnings.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and Dr. Lynn Arcara made this much clear when she sued the women who broke up her marriage for $5.8 million. And won. Well, sort of.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie won a pile of money from the British tabloid News of the World today, because the rag reported back in January that the impossibly pretty couple was splitting up. Well. That'll show those irresponsible gossipmongers the error of their ways.
It turns out that psychologists are just like the rest of us: prone to making mistakes and giving medium-to-bad advice. A couple in New York are laying down the lawsuit with the couple's couples therapist. The man, actor Guido Venitucci, says his shrink hectored him into having an affair, and now he and his wife want some financial restitution.
One woman is suing a phone company for revealing her affair, thereby sending her marriage to ruin. Gabriella Nagy, a Toronto native, engaged in an affair that lasted just a few weeks. Her husband eventually discovered her infidelity and, evidently, having no one to blame but herself…she blamed her cell phone company.
