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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: finding toes
Message-ID: <395@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 15:15:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 15:15:53 1985
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Reply-To: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN
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Keywords: suing for all I can get
Summary: 

David North:
>	Recently I found a human toe at a local fast food restaurant.  I didn't
>suffer any real damage but I would like to sue them for all that I can.
>
>1.  Should I try to find a legitamate lawyer or one who is only out for money
>    (like me)  I feel that I don't really have a legitamate claim but I still
>    have a good chance of winning the case.

By all means, get a legitimate lawyer.  Your lawyer should be able to
answer the rest of your questions; after all, that's what you pay him
to do.  My husband (a law student) assures me that there have been many
similar cases (part of a human hand in some chewing tobacco, for
instance), and that you're absolutely correct: if you don't foul up on
some technicality like the statute of limitations, you have a good
chance of winning.  

And some free advice - don't say things like "I didn't really suffer any
damages, but I want to sue anyway" in public - and the net *is* public.
If the defense got ahold of that, they would almost certainly use it.

*flame on*
If I knew who you were suing, I'd be tempted to print off a copy of your
posting and mail it to them, and hope they could find a lawyer who would
be willing to institute a counter-suit for fraud or something.  Suing
someone when you admittedly suffered no damage, hoping to get them to
pay up instead of fighting you in court is disgusting - it's the moral
equivalent of extortion.  It's people like you who make everyone's 
liability insurance go sky high - people not only have to be able to pay
up when they really are liable, but they also have to be able to fight
vultures like you.
*flame off*

		charli