Browning Law News Blog

In the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 protests, Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay over $148 million in damages to two Georgia election workers named by the former New York mayor.  What has not been explained to the general public is that there was never any trial concerning whether Mr. Giuliani had actually slandered or libeled these two persons.   In the case of Giuliani, the two Georgia election workers listed as plaintiffs in the suit against Giuliani sued him for saying they engaged in what amounted to election fraud.  They are allowed to ask the defendant ex-mayor for documents relevant to their suit and to his defense. These women brought their case against Giuliani in a jurisdiction that is heavily populated with Democrats.  They could have sued in their home state, Georgia, but did not. They wanted a jury pool of anti-Trump democrats, so they sued in Washington, D.C. They managed to get an incredibly biased Barack Obama-appointed, anti-Trump judge....

    Tuesday, December 5, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a lawsuit filed by a woman who calls herself a "lawsuit tester."     Deborah Laufer is visually-impaired and uses a wheelchair.  She has used her disabilities to search online for businesses that are not technically compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act requirement that hotels provide information in their reservation systems stating whether they were handicap-accessible, and then uses her status as a disabled person to claim status as one harmed by the conduct of that business.        In fact, she has sued 600 small businesses she has accused of discriminating against disabled people.     Ms. Laufer's latest foray into lawsuit testing was an action against a hotel in Maine, claiming the hotel omitted information on its website about accessibility features for disabled people, and that such omission violated a 2010 Justice Department regulation requirement t...

      It has recently come to my attention that some men are being defrauded by their girlfriends presenting them with an ultrasound showing the presence of a bun in the oven. Or two buns in the oven, as depicted in the picture above.     The men are unsuspecting.  Wanting to provide a home for their offspring, they marry their girlfriends.  Sometime during the pregnancy, the new wife disappears for a few days and then returns to her husband with a sad tale of visiting a friend when suffering a miscarriage.     In fact, the only miscarriage was a miscarriage of justice.  There are three cases similar to this of which I have recently become aware.       In two of those cases, the fraud was assisted by an online site that sells and customizes ultrasound images of one or more children in utero.  For a mere $40, a devious female can purchase a real ultrasound and have her name and a date and hospital of the buyer's c...

  In two recent separate lawsuits, patrons of Panera Bread have accused the company of killing their loved ones with lemonade.       Panera's "charged lemonade" packs a very large quantity of caffeine.  One cup contains 395 mg of caffeine, which compares to the FDA's maximum allowable intake as being 400 mg.     This is the equivalent of about four cups of coffee (95 mg caffeine), or three 16 oz. Red Bull energy drinks (135 mg per drink) or two large Monster energy drinks (160 mg of caffeine).     In each case, the plaintiff's decedent died of a heart attack after consuming one charged lemonade per day for 2-3 weeks.     Heart-attack-drink cases are hard to prove because people who die from them are usually in poor health before they have had a sip of the suspected beverage.  However, there have been a number of cases brought this century concerning plaintiffs who have been injured after taking a diet pill containing caffe...