Tina Sherman Nude Photos on Internet Result in $3 Million Lawsuit Against McDonald's

Sherman-McDonald's Lawsuit Will Be Difficult to Win

Tina Sherman has a problem. She is all over the internet. Nude. She's not even famous.

Strike that. She wasn't famous. Now she's internationally famous. All due to her husband's carelessness and a subsequent lawsuit he and she filed against McDonald's.

Confused? It gets better.

Tina Sherman sent some nude photos to her husband's cell phone. On a trip to McDonald's, Philip Sherman inadvertently left his cell phone behind. According to the Shermans, when Philip Sherman realized that the cell phone was missing, he called McDonald's and made arrangements with them for employees there to secure the phone until he could retrieve it.

Since then, Tina Sherman has received offensive calls and text messages about the pictures. The pictures also appeared on an internet website (and have been removed). It got so bad that the Shermans were forced to move, they claimed.

So they sued McDonald's. The lawsuit names the McDonald's Corporation; Mathews Management Co., the particular Arkansas franchise that owned the McDonald's where the couple had lunch; and Aaron Brummley, the manager of that particular establishment. The lawsuit is seeking $3 million, claiming that employees of the restaurant stole and uploaded the nude photos of Tina Sherman to a website. The Shermans are claiming mental distress, embarrassment and damage to their reputations. Additionally, they seek to recover earnings losses and the cost of changing residences.

Thus far, all defendants named have refused comment.

As strange as this lawsuit may seem, McDonald's has had other strange cases. Back in 1994, a jury awarded an 81-year-old woman $2.9 million after she accidentally scalded herself with a cup of their coffee from an Albuquerque, New Mexico McDonalds.

Back in 2002, a couple teenagers sued two Bronx (New York) franchises for damages related to their obesity.

But those cases have become famous for being frivolous and are often cited as such when anyone needs a handy or quick example of frivolous lawsuits.