Will we be hearing about lawsuits against the Borat movie for the next few years? On the heels of frat boys and transit workers suing the producers of Borat last year, a New York City businessman is suing Twentieth Century Fox for the "unauthorized and blatantly illegal use" of his likeness in the movie. Jeffrey Lemerond is best known to Borat viewers as the New Yorker who runs away from the faux Kazakh reporter......

Remember Ellen Massey? She's the Mets fan that had her back broken while watching an April game at Shea Stadium. Sitting in the upper deck, Massey had an "oversized" man, who may have been drunk fall on her, breaking one of her vertebra. Now, Massey, who had two steel rods placed in her back, is suing the Mets,, their concessions vendor Aramark, the service union that includes stadium security, and "John Doe," the man that......

Business must be rough for Karl Kemp Antiques if Karl Kemp is suing four homeless people for $1 million. Kemp claims that "John Smith," "John Doe," "Bob Doe," and "Jane Doe" are sullying his stretch of Madison Avenue (his store is 833 Madison Avenue, at 69th) and scaring off customers." His lawsuit claims the group has been "consuming alcoholic beverages from open bottles, performing various bodily functions such as urinating or spitting on the sidewalk,......

The decision to donate one's body to medicine can be a tough one. Knowing that nerdy little med students will have their fingers on your brain, in your abdomen, or in other unfathomable places is hopefully outweighed by the fact that your carcass will be used to train future physcians and provide valuable organs for transplant instead of rotting in the ground. However, the recent discovery of a Brooklyn mortician and often-sued former dental surgeon......

New York is implementing a new plan deal with the statute of limitations on sex crimes. Mayor Bloomberg announced The John Doe Indictment Project. A "dedicated team of prosecutors, scientists, and investigators" "will identify the most serious unsolved sex crimes and indict the perpetrators – even before they are apprehended – based upon their DNA profiles." One example used was a series of rapes in Harlem in 1991 and 1992, which was only solved in......