This will be a fine story to tell the first girl he hooks up with:
Brie Kennedy, individually and on behalf of her minor child
v.
Rezzie's Child Care Inc.
7/11/2008 661937
(Gretna)
Negligence complaint. The plaintiff's child suffered severe injuries when his testicles were bitten by another child.
Another real life lawsuit. Sometimes you just can't make these things up. Names not removed this time.
Kelli McGehee
v.
State Farm General Insurance Company; Scott Catalanotto dba Scott Catalanotto Insurance Agency
6/30/2008 08-cv-03851
(New Orleans)
Lawsuit for unlawful employment practices and sexual harassment. Defendant Catalanotto sexually harassed the plaintiff until she resigned. Among other things, he conducted a "Bible study" every morning, which focused on sex and strip clubs, and during the study, he would sit so close to the plaintiff that they would be touching. Also, Catalanotto had a practice of taking showers in his office every morning at 8 am, so that he was naked in the shower when the plaintiff and her coworkers came to work. When Catalanotto ordered a bed for his office the plaintiff became worried.
Actual lawsuit filed in New Orleans recently...*
Lawsuit for unlawful employment practices. After the plaintiff complained that her job duties should not include opening defendant F's emails as they were sometimes pornographic, F asked her if she was in "the mood for a Mountain Dew," referring to the most recent email the plaintiff had opened which depicted a naked woman with a can of Mountain Dew inserted into her vagina. Later, the plaintiff was told by one of her female colleagues that all of the women working for the defendant were F's "girls," and that F only hired attractive females and expected them to take better care of him than his wife could. The next day, the plaintiff witnessed F and that female colleague making out, as they sat in the same car in which she was riding. Later F asked her not to tell anyone about the incident.
Wanting to post this earlier, but busy at work.
An article in USA Today talks about how so many lawsuits have been filed against the government in Katrina-related claims. This is my fav:
One claim alone seeks $3 quadrillion in damages, almost all of it for personal injury. That's a 3 followed by 15 zeros — about 250 times the nation's gross domestic product. A resident of a section of New Orleans that includes the hard-hit Lower 9th Ward filed another claim for $6 trillion, double the annual federal budget.
The Senate District 5 race is shaping up to be a good one. You don't have the drama of the District 6 race that ALTR loves ohsomuch, but it'll be a close race nonetheless.
Previously I had mysteriously alluded to a lawsuit involving one of our state reps. At the time I didn't know the nature of the suit, but came to find out that Cheryl Gray's residency in the 5th District was being challenged (Gray area, anyone? ha!). The suit was subsequently withdrawn and everyone goes about their happy lives, though everyone knows it was the Jefferson crew who was behind it.
Some Came Running reminded me that there is a forum coming up October 9 featuring the 5th District Senate candidates. His/her source lists the five (Dixon, Jefferson, Gray, Williams and Gressett), but the Neighbors United site fails to mention Gressett as confirmed. Rumor has it he dropped out. Ol' boy didn't even last a month, but we knew he was only there to detract from others.
I've seen more and more Jalila Jefferson-Bullock signs popping up around my 'hood. Interestingly enough, as soon as they appear, they are gone. Are the signs simply being posted in people's yards without their consent? Are people stealing them? If thievery is the gig, then are they being stolen because someone else wants the sign for their own yard or because they are anti-Jefferson? Of the three signs on my block that appeared over night, the one that remains is in front of the most ghetto house of all. It's also on a tiny patch of dirt that no one can see because of the on-street parking.
For fun, see also: African-American turnout will be the Wildcard of 2007
Up next on the docket for Joe Francis is a lawsuit from two girls alleging that the Girls Gone Wild folks coerced them into exposing themselves, performing sexual acts on one another, and not "really" giving their consent (the girls say they did not give consent, but any consent GGW may have was coerced under the influence of alcohol - you know, the omg-i-was-sofaking-drunk excuse).
Don't get me wrong, I am no Joe Francis supporter. But here you can clearly see these girls giving their full names and their consent for the footage to be used by GGW. HOWEVER...if you can't really consent to sex when under the influence of a mind altering substance, how can you consent to someone using you or your likeness?
Further, as can be read in the lawsuit, GGW assured the girls at a later date that their footage would not be used, yet proceeded to not only put it in a video, but also the trailers on the prequel. And you can't deny they got those girls drunk. Well, maybe, because somebody certainly did and judging by the video on the site, I doubt they were short any drinks from any willing young men.
I hate that girls do this. I really do. But I also hate Joe Francis and the whole GGW machine. What.the.fuck. Society never ceases to amaze me. According to his website he is currently in custody for something or another, perhaps exploiting under age girls. The whole "she told me she was 18" thing is sort of lame. In a business like that, you should really ask for ID. Regardless, he is a cry baby, offers bribes, and is a complete and total sleaze. Gross.
However, I did giggle at this.
Doug Sunseri of Nicaud, Sunseri & Fradella is currently on WWL giving free legal advice on how to file your Hurricane Katrina claim and the like.
More on the deadline later.
