Kid Sues School for Dodgeball Injuries

Apparently using soccer balls for a game of dodgeball in the school gym was a bad idea. A twelve-year-old lost his teeth, and now his parents are suing the school.

Hasn’t he ever heard “if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball?”

When I read the story of the lawsuit over at the NY Daily News, my first reaction wasn’t poor kid (I’m not heartless - that came next). All I could think was “wait, they still play dodgeball in schools?” Continue reading »

Mom Sues Daycare Over Son’s Sunburn

A day of play in the sun with friends sounds like a great day in the sun, but when a toddler gets a severe sunburn, whose fault is it?

When Michelle Murton picked her sixteen-month-old Ozzy Buisson up from his Australian daycare, she was stunned to see that he was “red as a beetroot.”  “I’ve never seen sunburn like it before,” she told the Courier Mail.  “He was so red it was almost purple. For him to be burnt this bad, he must have been outside in the sun most of the day.”

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City Makes Kids Tear Down Treehouse

The treehouse Brenk Johnson built with his two little boys will have to be torn down because city officials consider it an “accessory building.”

The Johnsons’ neighbor narked on them after Brenk decided to build the treehouse in the front yard because no trees in the backyard would support the weight.  Continue reading »

American Apparel Teams Up with Sesame Street

Now it’s not only American Apparel’s scantily clad models that evoke youth, but their designs as well. The clothing company has teamed up with Sesame Street to offer its customers a limited-edition run of Big Bird et al. t-shirts. They’ll be released this month to coincide with Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary. Continue reading »

Kids Taken from Mom and Dad for Pictures of Bathtime

My mind moved through every photo in my daughter’s albums when I read this one: parents in Arizona are on the warpath after temporarily losing their kids to a child abuse investigation started by their local Wal-Mart.

Turns out the parents took pictures . . . gasp . . . of their kids in the bathtub! Continue reading »

Parents Sue Dunkin Donuts for Hot Hash Browns

Who know: fast food fresh off the assembly line might be hot. Apparently a set of parents from the Boston area, who are suing Dunkin’ Donuts for burns their twenty-three-month-old allegedly obtained from a hash brown that was too hot.

And the lawyer keeps insisting this is NOTHING like the infamous McDonald’s coffee case. Continue reading »

Got Breastmilk? The State of California Sues

Don’t mess with California or their Milk Advisory Board. The state of California has filed a lawsuit against the Texas Sticker company for using their “Got Milk” trademark for their Got Breastmilk spin off stickers. In the past the Milk Advisory Board has licensed their phrase to for profit companies for T-shirts, stickers and merch. Continue reading »

Mom Sues School for Causing Daughter’s Anorexia

A Pennsylvania school district accused by a mom of not stepping in to stop bullying against her daughter is now being sued - for causing her anorexia.

The unidentified mother says boys began harassing her daughter about her weight in sixth grade, and the trouble continued into the seventh. Continue reading »

Kindle Ate His Homework

If only we’d had this kind of excuse back in the day! A kid whose Kindle was caught up in the raft of recent glitches that have caused books to disappear had a very simple explanation for not turning in his George Orwell report: the Kindle ate my homework.

Owner Amazon has been dealing with a host of angry owners of the digital readers after two Orwell books were removed from libraries without their permission. And now the teen whose book AND notes were lost is suing. Continue reading »

Did A Baby Mega-Store Price-Gouge?

This ought to surprise no one who’s shopped for baby stuff in the last several years – a federal lawsuit recently given class-action status in Philadelphia charges that the mega-retailer Babies R Us forced manufacturers and distributors of high-end baby goods to essentially fix prices on their products.

The suit alleges that BRU told manufacturers Continue reading »