Miscellaneous

Judge to Hot Chicks: "Only a douchebag would file a lawsuit like this"

A while back we told you about a lawsuit filed over the "Hot Chicks with Douchebags" website and book. As you may recall, it wasn't the purported douchebags suing -- rather, three of the pictured hot chicks were suing for defamation because they didn't like being depicted as digging on douchebags.

Well last Monday, a New Jersey judge told the ladies to get bent, granting summary judgment and dismissing the complaint because of that pesky little thing called the First Amendment. Judge Toskos noted that it's not libel when something "is clearly understood as being parody, satire, humor or fantasy." And then there's this:

Citing passages from the book as examples, Toskos said a reasonable person would not believe that "in 1981 archaeologist Renee Emile Bellaqua uncovered in a cave in Gali Israel a highly controversial Third Century religious scroll suggesting that the 'douchey/hotty' coupling was a troublesome facet in early social religious structures" or that "Jean-Paul Sartre stated 'man is condemned to be douchey because once thrown into the world he is responsible for every douchey thing that he does.'"

Good on ya' Judge Menelaos Toskos, good on ya'.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on February 17, 2009 (boomark / email).