Top 05 Most Unusual Lawsuit Cases
Marina Bai is a Russian astrologer who sued NASA in July 2005 for allegedly "unbalancing the universe." At the time, NASA had just launched the Deep Impact probe into comet Tempel 1, hoping to study its interior. Bai sued for damages and "moral suffering", claiming that the comet would never match the "natural balance of forces in the universe" and that it would adversely affect his astrology work. Bay's case was initially dismissed, but was reopened after his lawyer was able to show that NASA's office at the American embassy was under Russian jurisdiction. He sought more than $300 million in damages, roughly the same as the space mission's total budget, but his case was dismissed after a physicist argued that the study had no real effect on the comet's trajectory.
4. Man sues corporations for witchcraft
In 2008, a Canadian man filed a $2 billion lawsuit against several corporations after he alleged that the companies repeatedly engaged in witchcraft, satanic rituals, and brainwave control to increase their profits. The man, Jerry Rose, claimed that companies such as Microsoft and Wal-Mart subjected him to "invasive brain computer interface technology, research, experiments, field studies and surgeries." Rose also named several universities and professors as defendants in the case, saying they helped create the "brain-streaming" technologies that made mind-control tactics possible. Lawyers for the companies argued that the case was frivolous and deserved to be dismissed on the spot, but the judge presiding over the case agreed to hear it, saying all charges could be tried.
3. Cable Car Nymphomaniac
In 1964, a woman named Gloria Sykes was injured when her cable car malfunctioned and slid down a hill in San Francisco. Sykes suffered a black eye and some scratches in the crash, but he filed a $500,000 lawsuit against the city for a more interesting reason: he claimed the crash gave him a "diabolical libido." Sykes said the trauma of the accident caused her to develop an uncontrollable nymphomania, and she had sex with more than 100 men, up to 50, in the week after it happened. The case made headlines in the Bay Area when it went to trial, and many called it one of the worst abuses of the legal system in history. But Sykes was awarded $50,000 in damages after his lawyers successfully argued that he had developed a strange form of PTSD.
2. Man sues God
In 2005, a Romanian prisoner named Pavel Mircea attempted to sue God for fraud and gross negligence. Mircea, who spent twenty years behind bars for murder, claimed that God had failed to save him from evil, as promised at his baptism, and that this amounted to a breach of contract. Mircea demanded an undisclosed sum for partial reimbursement of the money she spent on prayer candles and other religious goods, and directed her case to Romanian Orthodox Church officials, whom she considers God's representatives on earth. Ultimately, the courts dismissed the case, with at least one report claiming that it was thrown out because God did not obey ordinary laws.
1. He is suing the most litigious man in the world
When it comes to filing unusual lawsuits, few compare to Jonathan Lee Riches, who has filed numerous lawsuits in US district courts. Known variously as "Johnny Sue-Nami," "The Litigator Crusader," and "The Litigator Patrick Jung," Riches is busy suing everyone and everything. Among the targets of his more than 4,000 lawsuits are George W. Riches, who is currently serving time in an Oklahoma City jail, has even attempted to sue historical figures such as Plato, Nostradamus and Che Guevara, as well as inanimate objects such as the Eiffel Tower, the Lincoln Memorial and Plymouth Rock. His most famous, and arguably most ironic, claim came in May 2009, when Riches sued Guinness World Records for naming him the "World's Most Sustainable Man", claiming that the company had no right to publish his "legitimate" document. masterpieces".
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