
A biweekly newsletter documenting cases of lawsuit abuse by trial lawyers.
The female star of such cinematic bondage masterpieces as “Asses in the Air” successfully sued her employer, Slave Labor Productions, for injuries she suffered while bound and hanging from ropes several feet off the ground during a filming. Since she also was gagged at the time, she could not tell the camera crew her left arm, wrist, and hand were not supported properly by the ropes. An arbitrator agreed she was entitled to damages--giving, as The National Law Journal pointed out, a whole new meaning to the term binding arbitration.