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Most Frivolous Lawsuit Ever?

By Ed Brayton

pA Japanese couple are a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-wed-overserved-united-uauadec17,0,7796929.story"suing United Airlines/a for serving too much wine to the husband, causing him to beat up his wife:/p blockquoteA husband and wife are suing United Airlines for "negligently" overserving alcohol during a flight from Osaka, Japan, to San Francisco, saying the carrier's drinks fueled the domestic violence involving the two shortly after their plane landed. pFortified with Burgundy wine allegedly supplied at 20-minute intervals by United crew members during the December 2006 trip, Yoichi Shimamoto became so inebriated "that he could not manage himself," according to a lawsuit filed Dec. 5 in U.S. District Court in Tampa./p pShimamoto was arrested, accused of disorderly conduct and battery after he struck his wife, Ayisha, six times, injuring her face and upper lip as they were heading through U.S. Customs in San Francisco, the complaint said./blockquote/p a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/most_frivolous_lawsuit_ever.php"Read the rest of this post.../a | a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/most_frivolous_lawsuit_ever.php#commentsArea"Read the comments on this post.../aimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/dispatches/~4/490596836" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 20, 2008 (boomark / email).