- Paula Jones
Paula Corbin Jones (born Paula Rosalee Corbin on September 17, 1966, in Lonoke, Arkansas) is a former Arkansas state employee who sued President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment and eschewal. Eventually, the court dismissed the lawsuit, before trial, on the grounds that Jones failed to demonstrate any damages. However, while the dismissal was on appeal, Clinton entered into an out-of-court settlement by agreeing to pay Jones $850,000. - Robert Jackson
Robert Jackson is a member of the New York City Council, representing the 7th District in Manhattan. The district includes the neighborhoods of West Harlem, Sugar Hill, Washington Heights and Inwood. Jackson, first elected in 2001, is a Democrat. Before being elected to the Council, Jackson was employed by the Public Employee Federation, a labor union. - Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss was an American philosopher, known for his work in metaphysics and for his efforts to reverse age discrimination policies at American universities. Born in New York City, he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from City College of New York and his doctorate from Harvard (1929), where he studied under Alfred North Whitehead. He taught at several universities, but spent most of his career at Yale, where he eventually held an endowed chair. - Ignacio Ramos
Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos is a former United States Border Patrol Agent, who shot an unarmed illegal alien and drug smuggler on the United States–Mexico border. He was convicted of causing serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, and a civil rights violation. - Susan Webber Wright
Susan Webber Wright (b. 1948) is a United States District Court judge presently serving as the chief judge of the Eastern District of Arkansas. She received national attention when she dismissed Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton in 1998. Wright was a student of Clinton's in a class on admiralty law while at the University of Arkansas law school; she later challenged him on her grade. - Richard Leigh
Richard Leigh (born 1943) is a novelist and short story writer born in New Jersey and currently living in England. Author with Michael Baigent and Henry Lincoln, of the best-seller "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" (1982) and its sequel "The Messianic Legacy". Leigh earned a BA from Tufts University, a Master's degree from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. - Jason O'Grady
Jason D. O'Grady is the editor of O'Grady's PowerPage, a Web site devoted to mobile technology and focusing on portable products from Apple Computer, Inc., specifically the MacBook, PowerBook, iBook and iPod. The PowerPage was founded in December of 1995 while Jason was troubleshooting a problem with his PowerBook 5300ce and a Global Village PC card modem. - Mark McGrath
Mark Sayers McGrath (born March 15, 1968) is the lead singer of rock band Sugar Ray. He currently hosts the television tabloid "Extra". He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, but grew up in California. He graduated from Corona del Mar High School and then majored in Business Communication at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles. He worked as a truck driver before making his success in music. - Anna Ayala
Anna Ayala (born circa 1965) is an American woman who is notorious for bringing a fraudulent tort lawsuit against a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, California, which inflicted more than US$2.5 million in losses for the corporation, leading to a felony charge of attempted grand larceny against her. Ayala pleaded guilty to the charge in September 2005, and was sentenced to nine years in prison on January 18, 2006. - Demosthenes
Demosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of ancient Athenian intellectual prowess and provide a thorough insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by studying the speeches of previous great orators. He delivered his first judicial speeches at the age of twenty, … - Luigi Cascioli
Luigi Cascioli is an Italian atheist and author of the book "The Fable of Christ". When Cascioli was younger he trained to become a Roman Catholic priest, but he left his training to become a pronounced atheist and he asserted that Jesus never existed. He later expounded on this in his book, which claims that Jesus was a fictionalisation of the historical John of Gamala. In response to this book, in 2002, a local priest, Father Enrico Righi, … - Caesar Barber
Caesar Barber is an American man who got famous for attempting to sue the fast food chains McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, and Kentucky Fried Chicken for having made him addicted to their foods, resulting in his becoming overweight. At the time of the suit, Barber was 57 years old and weighed 272 pounds (123 kilograms). He was medically obese, suffered from diabetes, and had had two heart attacks. He lived in the Bronx, and worked as a maintenance worker. - Cyrus Kar
Cyrus Kar (born March 18, 1961 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-born American film director, part-time professor at the University of Phoenix, and now-vindicated alleged terrorist who was captured by United States forces in Iraq on May 17, 2005. On July 10, 2005, he was released from custody after his family sued, accusing the U.S. government of violating his civil rights and detaining him after his clearance by the FBI. - Joe Redner
Joseph R. "Joe" Redner, born "c." 1940, is the owner of the Mons Venus, a nude strip club in Tampa, Florida, and is known as the father of the nude lap dance. Redner has been engaged in legal battles with the Tampa City Council, which has tried to place restrictions on the strip club industry for 25 years. Mons Venus and Redner have filed suits that have reached the Supreme Court and have become case law in many court cases. - Leo Stoller
Leo D. Stoller (born June 5, 1946) is an American self-styled "intellectual property entrepreneur" based in suburban Chicago, Illinois. Stoller controversially claims rights to a large inventory of "famous" trademarks and engages in the assertive enforcement of those alleged trademark rights, threatening infringement action against people and companies who attempt to use similar marks. - Tim Welch
Timothy Michael "Tim" Welch is an American administrative worker, best known for his role with the professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Upon joining TNA in June 2003, Welch worked as a general administrator, as the director of media relations and as an assistant to the creative team, supervising scripts. He also occupied positions within the payroll, contract and talent relations divisions, and has worked as an interviewer and media liaison. - Billy Hoffman
Billy Hoffman, also known as Acidus, is an American hacker, born in Atlanta, Georgia on October 15, 1980. - John Henry Faulk
John Henry Faulk (August 21, 1913-April 9, 1990) from Austin, Texas was a storyteller and radio show host. His successful lawsuit against McCarthyite blacklisters of the entertainment industry helped to bring an end to the Hollywood blacklist. He attended the University of Texas and was a graduate student of J. Frank Dobie, earning a Masters degree with his thesis "Ten Negro Sermons". He served in the Merchant Marine, the American Red Cross and the US Army during WWII. - Danny Hellman
Danny Hellman is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist nicknamed Dirty Danny. Since 1989, his illustrations have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including "Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, New York Press, The Wall Street Journal, FHM, Mad Magazine" and "Screw magazine". Hellman’s comics work can be seen in DC Comics' "Bizarro World", Paradox Press' "Big Books" series, "Last Gasp Comics & Stories", … - Stephen Joyce
Stephen James Joyce is the grandson of James Joyce and the controversial executor of Joyce's estate. Though the trustee of the Estate of James Joyce is Seán Sweeney, Stephen Joyce has taken an active role in all legal matters relating to Joyce's works. He has brought numerous lawsuits or threats of legal action against scholars, biographers and artists attempting to quote from Joyce's literary work or personal correspondence. - Nancy Stouffer
Nancy Kathleen Stouffer, also known as N. K. Stouffer, is an American author who wrote children's books in the 1980s. She is best known for accusing J. K. Rowling, author of the "Harry Potter" books, of plagiarism, claiming that Rowling infringed on her trademark to the term "Muggles" and on her copyright to illustrations of a character named "Larry Potter". Rowling filed a lawsuit against Stouffer in the United States to stop the claims, … - Joseph Gutnick
Joseph Isaac Gutnick (sometimes referred to as Diamond Joe) is an Australian businessman and a well known Jewish philanthropist. He is well known for his leadership of Western Mining Corporation and other resource and mining businesses. He is also an ordained Rabbi. He is a former president of the Melbourne Football Club. He is famous in legal circles for suing Dow Jones, … - Blair Hornstine
Blair Hornstine is a woman from Moorestown Township, New Jersey, who achieved notoriety in 2003 by suing Moorestown High School in an effort to name her as its sole valedictorian. She won the lawsuit, but amid the publicity, it was revealed that she had plagiarized repeatedly in a newspaper column, prompting Harvard University to revoke its offer of admission. - Sami Omar Al-Hussayen
Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, a native of Saudi Arabia and graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Idaho, is a webmaster whose actions placed him at the center of a Patriot Act lawsuit. Allegedly a major force within the Islamic Assembly of North America, Al-Hussayen ran websites that allegedly recruited, funded, and otherwise supported Islamic terrorists within the United States. - Sultaana Freeman
Sultaana Lakiana Myke Freeman is a female Muslim resident of the state of Florida, United States. She gained media attention when she sued the state of Florida in order to wear a face veil for her driver's license picture. - James D. Hudnall
James David Hudnall is a professional writer with over 20 years of experience. The majority of his work has been in the graphic novel field. He has had one television show made from his work (Harsh Realm, Fox 1999) and has a major motion picture in development with Universal for his series The Psycho. In addition to comics James is a software engineer and database analyst. He specialises in creating complex internet applications. - Margarethe Cammermeyer
Margarethe "Grethe" Cammermeyer is a former colonel in the Washington National Guard and a gay rights activist. Born in Oslo, Norway, she became a United States citizen in 1960. In 1961 she joined the Army Student Nurse Program. She received a B.S. in Nursing in 1963 from the University of Maryland. She met her partner, Diane Divelbess, in 1988, when she was 46 — after she had ended a 15-year marriage to a man and had four sons. - John F. Banzhaf III
John Banzhaf is a Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. As a driving force behind fast food and tobacco litigation he has been called "the man who wants to sue America" and a "Legal Terrorist". Banzhaf has also done some work in weighted voting systems. He is the inventor of the Banzhaf power index, which analyzes weighted voting systems according to their members' abilities to force quorums. *Prof. Banzhaf's Personal Website - Shannon Faulkner
Shannon Faulkner, born in Powdersville, South Carolina, United States, was the first female cadet to enter The Citadel. Faulkner enrolled after a successful lawsuit against the military academy. She joined an otherwise all-male class on August 15, 1995. However, she spent the majority of the first week in the medical infirmary (to which she was assigned for housing, rather than being quartered with the male cadets) before voluntarily resigning, … - James V. Meow Media
"James v. Meow Media" was a lawsuit filed in 1999 by families of three girls killed by Michael Carneal. The lawsuit claimed that several entertainment companies should be held responsible for the girls' deaths in the 1997 Heath High School shooting in Paducah, Kentucky. Jack Thompson, a Miami lawyer and anti-videogame activist, filed the $33 million federal products liability class action lawsuit. - Morris Albert
Morris Albert is a Brazilian singer and songwriter, famous for his 1975 hit single "Feelings". Albert began his career singing and playing guitar for a number of bands. In 1973, at a time when many Brazilian artists were using anglicised names in attempts to break into the US market, he released his first album, which featured "Feelings", the song that would eventually bring him worldwide success. - Nigel Harrison
Nigel Harrison (born 18 April 1951, in Stockport, Cheshire, England) is a musician, and best known as the bass player of the power pop/new wave band, Blondie. In the early 1970s Harrison lived in Princes Risborough near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. He was the bassist for the local band Farm, and later recorded and toured with Silverhead (fronted by Michael Des Barres) from 1972 to 1974. - Gary K. Michelson
Gary K. Michelson, founder of Karlin Technology, is a surgeon turned inventor. On April 22, 2005, Medtronic Inc. paid US$ 1.35 billion to settle a patent lawsuit and also to acquire his spine surgery-related patents. - Rufus Choate
Rufus Choate (October 1, 1799-July 13, 1859), American lawyer and orator, was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, the descendant of a family which settled in Massachusetts in 1643 ; brother of noted physician George Choate, and uncle to George C. S. Choate and Joseph Hodges Choate. Rufus Choate's birthplace, Choate House, remains virtually unchanged to this day. - Kicker Vencill
Kicker Vencill is an American swimmer who won a lawsuit against a dietary supplement company for having contaminated multi-vitamins which caused her to be suspended from swimming for two years from 2003, even though they were prescribed to him by his doctor. The court awarded him over US$500,000. He first started swimming at four, for a country club. He represented America at the 2001 World University Games His fiancée is Beth Botsford. - Wally Butts
James Wallace "Wally" Butts, Jr. (February 7, 1905 - December 17, 1973) was the head football coach (seasons 1939 through 1960) and athletic director (1939 to 1963) at the University of Georgia. Butts was a 1929 graduate of Mercer University where he played college football under coach Bernie Moore. Butts was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1966 and in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997. - Samuel Hill
Samuel Hill was a businessman, lawyer, railroad executive and advocate of good roads in the Pacific Northwest. He had a substantial impact on the economic development of the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century. Hill built many early roads in the Pacific Northwest, including its first paved road in Maryhill, Washington. He was renowned for his scenic Columbia River Highway, which linked coastal Astoria, Oregon and The Dalles, Oregon. - Samuel Gilberd
Samuel Gilberd is a New York City software executive currently at the center of a police brutality scandal in the town of Ocean Beach, New York. On August 28, 2005, Gilberd was vacationing in the village when he was arrested for allegedly littering. He was then taken to police headquarters and beaten so badly that his bladder ruptured, necessitating a ten-day hospital stay. Gilberd has since filed a $22 million federal lawsuit, … - Dave Babych
David Michael Babych (born May 23 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a retired professional hockey defenceman who played for the Winnipeg Jets, Hartford Whalers, Vancouver Canucks, Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League, in a career spanning nineteen seasons. He is the younger brother of former NHL player Wayne Babych. Picked by the Winnipeg Jets second overall in 1980 NHL Entry Draft, … - Larry Laprise
Larry LaPrise (Roland Lawrence LaPrise, born: 11 November 1912 in Detroit, Michigan, died: 4 April 1996 in Gooding, Idaho) holds the U.S. copyright for the song "Hokey Pokey". LaPrise reportedly wrote the song in the late 1940s for the après-ski crowd at a club in Sun Valley, Idaho. The song was first recorded by his group the Ram Trio (with Charles Macak and Tafit Baker) in 1949. They were awarded U.S. copyright in 1950. After the group broke up in the 1960s, …
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