Life has been a little challenging lately so I did some research on the sort of things I could sue people about... and here is a list of cases that have made it to Court in the US based on the premise "It's My Right!"

• Baseball heckler so abusive that fans near him complain, so team asks him privately to quiet down a bit, please. No way, he says -- the team is violating his freedom of speech! He sues.

• Multiply- pierced woman told by her employer she can't wear her earrings, eyebrow ring, lip ring (etc.) when she works with the public. "Discrimination!" she cries -- religious discrimination, since she is a member of the "Church of Body Modification". She sues for $2 million.

• Lawyer sues airline because he was forced to sit next to a fat man; "He and I [were] literally and figuratively married from the right kneecap to the shoulder for two hours." If the lawyer isn't careful, the man might get a big divorce settlement out of him....

• 15-year-old boy joins Babe Ruth Baseball League, but doesn't get to play as much as he thinks he should. Does he ask for a refund of his sign-up fee? No: he sues for it. And loses.

• Newspaper columnist criticizes property developer as a "poverty pimp," to use a phrase the mayor uttered. The developer sues, but the judge agrees with the columnist and awards her damages for having to defend the frivolous lawsuit.

• If you peek into a ball park from a public place and watch the game, are you violating the sport's team "copyright" on the view? The Chicago Cubs says yes -- and sues.

• Teen throws herself off the Golden Gate Bridge. Tragic -- but who's to blame? With no one logical to sue, the girl's mother sues the bridge's board of directors, claiming they violated the teen's "constitutional right not to be deprived of life without due process of law."

• Women file suit claiming that flight attendant's nursery rhyme was meant to degrade them because they're black. Young flight attendant hadn't even heard the racist version of the rhyme.

• Bus driver warns proselytizer to stop bothering other passengers with offers of free bibles and literature, since passing out literature is against transit authority rules. When she refuses to stop, she is escorted off the bus -- and sues for that "humiliating" experience.

• After an accident, transit authority discovers its driver is colour-blind. Federal law requires commercial drivers to correctly see colour, so he is pressured to resign. That's not the end, though: he sues, claiming "discrimination" against colour-blind people -- even though he claims he is not colour-blind.

• Movie plot involves bad guys who want to bulldoze a jungle. The company that made the bulldozers sues, saying they were "disparaged" that the bad guys drove their brand. In a similar suit, toy manufacturer sues to stop movie from showing its toy used by an adult when only children are supposed to play with it.
   

Now that you are suitably amused at what those silly Americans get up to... in today's Perth Sunday Times, Shane Warne's ex, Nicole, intends to sue Paul Barry over his book "Spun Out" because she believes he has exaggerated how many times Shane has been playing away from home. All to sell a few extra books... or make a couple of lawyers a little more money.

I promise that I will get make to more serious things soon.