Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 35919
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2005/1/26-27 [Politics/Domestic/California, Recreation/Travel/LasVegas] UID:35919 Activity:nil
1/26    http://tinyurl.com/724bd  (yahoo news)
        First, Phillip-Morris is sued, then McD is sued, and now...
        casino is sued...
        \_ We Americans like to blame others for our bad decisions.  That's why
           there are so many wacky warning labels in our daily lives.
           http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050105/55627_1.html
           \_ http://bash.org/?4753
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Oddly Enough - Reuter s LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Southern California man has sued MGM Mirage for preying on his gambling addiction and inducing him to borrow and lose m illions of dollars at its Las Vegas casinos. The suit was filed on Monday in a Los Angeles US District Court by Shib ley Horaney, a resident of Newport Beach, California, who says that sinc e 1995 he has lost and paid back about $4 million on credit provided to him by the MGM Grand and $1 million on credit from The Mirage casino. In 2003, he borrowed and lost another $475,000, which the casinos are sti ll seeking to collect. Alan Feldman, a spokesman for MGM Mirage, declined to comment specificall y on Horaney's suit, but said similar lawsuits in the past have been sho wn to have no merit. "There are lots of cases where people make their own decisions and choice s then turn around and sue the casino," he said. The suit alleges that MGM contacted Horaney over the phone and by mail ov er a period of at least nine years, offering to provide free transportat ion and hotel rooms as well as lines of credit to gamble at the casinos. The lawsuit argues that California law bars such predatory conduct and do es not allow collection of gambling losses. Republication or r edistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the pri or written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any error s or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon .
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View multimedia news release The Wacky Warning Label Contest, now in it's eighth year, is conducted by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch, M-LAW, to reveal how lawsuits, and concer n about lawsuits, have created a need for common sense warnings on produ cts. The winning labels were selected from a list of M-LAW's finalists by list eners of the Dick Purtan show on Detroit radio station, WOMC-FM. The lab el on the toilet brush was found by Ed Gyetvai, of Oldcastle, Ontario. H e receives $500 and a copy of the national bestselling book, "The Death of Common Sense," by Philip K Howard. The $250 second place award went to Matt Johnson of Naperville, Illinois for a label on a popular scooter for children that warns: "This product moves when used." Third place and $100 goes to Ann Marie Taylor of Camde n, South Carolina who found the following warning on a digital thermomet er that can be used to take a person's temperature several different way s: "Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally." "Warning labels are a sign of our lawsuit-plagued times," said Robert B Dorigo Jones, M-LAW president. "From the moment we raise our head in the morning off pillows that bear those famous 'Do Not Remove' warnings, to when we drop back in bed at night, we are overwhelmed with warnings. Pl aintiff's lawyers who file the lawsuits that prompt these warnings argue they are making us safer, but the warnings have become so long that few of us read them anymore-- even the ones we should read. Hopefully, M-LA W's Wacky Warning Label Contest will motivate everyone to read their war nings again, and maybe even motivate judges to get tougher on frivolous lawsuits." M-LAW is a non-partisan, non-profit organization working to increase publ ic awareness of how the litigation explosion is hurting America. M-LAW i s dedicated to restoring common sense and personal responsibility to the courts. Get Up to $200 from Citibank Plus, get free checking with direct deposit, free online bill payment, e- mail and wireless banking alerts and online fraud protection. Bank Online with Imperial Capital Bank Imperial Capital Bank provides online banking services and offers high yi eld savings products, such as CDs, IRAs, money market checking and savin gs accounts. All the news release s provided by Business Wire are copyrighted. Any forms of copying other than an individual user's personal reference without express written per mission is prohibited. Further distribution of these materials by postin g, archiving in a public web site or database, or redistribution in a co mputer network is strictly forbidden.
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I'm not saying there shoul d be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?