Frivolous Lawsuits or Legit Cases?

You've got to ask yourself with all the talk about frivolous lawsuits nowadays whether or not we will as a nation go overboard with the proposed packages of tort reform that we see out there. A couple of obvious cases of lawsuit abuse out there are of course the lady at Wendy's who purposely stuck that severed finger in her chili or whatever it was and then brought litigation against Wendy's Inc. Then there was the judge who decided to sue the family run dry cleaner for something in the neighborhood of twenty million because they lost his pants for a time.

Then there was the college professor who sued the people who take care of the lawn by one of the departments because the fumes that they sprayed on the grass made him dizzy and faint. He must not have been a member of the counterculture, revolutionary professors who thought they were going to change the world. Any true hippie would have bounced right back up and thought whatever he smelled must be some good shit. A lot of the trademark lawsuits that are brought to the docket are silly too. Critically acclaimed film director Spike Lee threatened to sue the people who own Spike TV when they first wanted to change their name from TNN to Spike TV. What is he going to do? Sue every kid out there who names their dog or other pet Spike too? Mr. Lee finally decided to drop that one once he decided that he wasn't the sole claimant to the name Spike. Then there are those who actually teach seminars on how to sue doctors and get the highest rewards from juries.