Lawyer's- Why Many People Hold Them in Contempt

THE KUHNS REPORT
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LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?


Many attorney's in Las Vegas constantly advertise on local television seeking clients with injuries. Some say things such as:"Need my help? Call Me." and "Need a check?" Apparently they are only interested in fast and quick automobile accident cases where they can call the insurance companies and hit them up for a few thousand dollars in settlement claims after which they then pay the victims a pittance. However, if the victim of an injury other than a car accident asks for their help - -FOR GET ABOUT IT. It seems the attorney doesn't want to go to court and do some work for their money.

EXAMPLE: A senior citizen was injured in a large Las Vegas Casino due to a fall. The entire incident was captured on casino video tape. There are cameras everywhere in a Las Vegas casino so the incident is documented. The incident was also reported to the casino security staff and they took photographs of one of the injured people. Reports and statements were also given. It's was all a matter of record. The senior citizen eventually received medical treatment and had to undergo surgery because of the fall. He also had to spend months with in-home nursing care and physical therapy which was followed by additional out patient therapy.

The man contacted thirteen (13) attorney's for help and they all refused to accept the case. Could it be because they didn't want to go up against a large Nevada casino giant? Probably. Could be.

On the fourteenth (14th.) try a law firm sent a representative to the victims house, took a statement and then filled out all paper work for the law firm to represent the man. However, a few weeks later the law firm called the injured man and said they were cancelling the agreement. Apparently the law firm saw no large amount of money in it for them telling the man that since he was a senior citizen who was retired and who had his working and earning years behind him, it wouldn't be financially beneficial for them to represent the person. Wow! Who is out there to represent the senior citizen who becomes injured? A Side Note: Even though retired, the man still was actively working as a professional doing writing and research.


Many attorneys take the fast, "lets settle without going to court" fender benders and other ridiculous, frivolous cases but when it come to representing a senior citizen with a legitimate documented physical injury, they fail to step up.

Let me give you an example of some of these frivolous lawsuits that many attorneys will file.

THESE EXAMPLES ARE REAL CASES: My thanks to to the people at Stella Awards for their offerings.

First, what are the Stella awards you ask? Well, they are named after Stella Liebeck, the 81-year old little lady that sued McDonald's in New Mexico. Remember? She was the lady that purchased coffee at McDonald's and then removed the lid off the coffee and placed the open cardboard cup between her knees while she was driving an automobile. Come On! She is driving in a moving automobile with a cardboard cup , without a lid, full of hot coffee and then doesn't expect to be burned. But that attorney got her millions in the first go-round with McDonald's.

Let's look at a few others - - -

2002 AWARDS:

"The Godfather of Soul", James Brown has a "grudge" against his daughters Deanna Brown Thomas and Yamma Brown Lumar, These two allege Brown told the media" that his daughters will never get a dime from him." Brown kept his word. But the daughters did what any grieving daughters would do when they were cut off from the singer's bank accounts. They sued him for more than $1 million dollars, claiming that they were owed royalties for at least 25 of his songs, which they say, they helped him write even though at the time, they were children. An example, when Brown's 1976 hit "Get Up Offa That Thing" was a chart topper, the girls were 3, and 6 years old. NOTE: I bet Brown is turning in his grave.

Another,- -

When you visit your doctor you're told the same old things: eat less, exercise more and don't smoke. Do you listen? Neither did Kathleen Ann McCormick. The obese, cigarette smoking woman from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania had high blood pressure, high cholesterol and a family history of heart disease. Yet, according to her the doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs "did not do enough" to convince her to work to improve her health. She had a heart attack and in a Federal lawsuit she says she's a "cardiac invalid." She's suing 8 doctors, their employers - the United States government demanding $1 million dollars in compensation.

2003 AWARDS

Shawn Perkins of Laurel,Indiana was hit by lightening in the parking lot of the Paramount Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. You and I would think that was an "act of God", right?Not in his lawyers money grubbing eyes. The lawyer filed suit against the amusement park asking for unspecified damages, arguing the park should have "warned" people not to be outside during a thunderstorm.

Another, --

Caesar Barber, 56, of New York City sued McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and KFC. His lawsuit claims that this 5-foot-10 and 270 pound man forced him to eat their fatty food four or five times a week, and that is why he is obese, a diabetic and suffers from heart disease. The judge threw the case out twice and barred it from being filed for a third time. NOTE: Bet you dollars to donuts that these greedy lawyers will find a way around the situation and go at it again.

Another, --

Wanda Hudson, from Mobile, Alabama lost her home to foreclosure. She moved her belonging to a storage unit. She said she was inside her unit one night "looking for papers" when the lot manager found her door ajar - - and locked it. She denies she was sleeping in the storage unit, but incredibly did not call out for help or bang on the door to be left out. She was not found for 63 days and barely survived; the formerly plump 150- lb., woman lived on food she just "happened to have had" in the unit and was a mere 83 pounds when found. She sued the storage unit company for $10 million dollars claiming negligence. Even though the jury was not allowed to know the woman had previous mental problems , it found that Hudson was nearly 100 percent responsible for her own predicament - - but still awarded her $100,000.

Another, - -

The Winner of the 2003 Awards:

The City of Madera, California : Police officer Marcy Noriega had the suspect from a minor disturbance handcuffed in the back of her patrol car. When the suspect began kicking at the car's windows, Officer Noriega decided to subdue him with a Taser. However, instead of pulling her stun gun, the Taser, she pulled her service weapon and shot the suspect in the chest, killing him instantly. The city, incredibly, says the killing is not the officers fault; it argues that "any reasonable police officer" could "mistakenly draw and fire a handgun instead of the Taser device" and has filed suit against Taser,arguing the company should pay for any award from a wrongful death suit. Wow! NOTE: What a slap in the face for all of the excellent police officers who are professionally trained and who knows the difference between a real gun and a stun gun! What a cowardly attempt to escape responsibility for the actions of its own under-trained officer.

2004 AWARDS:

Tanisha Torres of Wyndanch, N.Y. sued Radio Shack for misspelling her town as "Crimedanch" on her cell phone bill. She didn't even ask them to change it, she just sued. She whined, "I'm not a criminal" "My son plays on the high school football team. Sure lady, that makes a lotta sense. The name Crimedanch is a common joke, and police says it's a high crime rate area. Still, Torres claimed she suffered "outrage" and "embarrassment" at having to see the spelling on her private phone bill. Her suit seeks unspecified damages.

The winner for 2004 goes to:

Mary Ubaudi of Madison County, Ill. Ubaudi was a passenger in a car that got into a wreck. She put most of the blame on the deepest pockets she could find- Mazda Motors, who made the car this money seeking person was riding in. She demands " in excess of $150,000" from the automaker, claiming" it failed to provide instructions regarding the safe and proper use of a seat belt." Mazda should make her swear in court that she has never before worn a seat belt, has never flown on an airline, and that she's to stupid to figure out how to fasten a seat belt. NOTE: Some attorney is really trolling for a livelihood here. Don't ya think?

2005 AWARDS:

The winner for the 2005 award goes to Christopher Roller of Burnsville, Minn. He was mystified by magicians, so he sued David Copperfield and David Blaine to demand they reveal their secrets to him - - or else pay him 10 percent of their lifelong earnings, which he figures amounts to $50 million for Copperfield and $2 million for Blaine. His suit says that the magicians defy the laws of physics, and thus must be using "Godly Powers: - and since Roller is God (according to him) they're somehow stealing that power from him. NOTE: Folks, tell me what kind of an attorney would file such a suit. How hungry could he be.

Another, - -

Rhonda Nichols said a "wild bird" "attacked" her outside a home improvement store in Fairview Heights, Ill., causing head injuries. You read right: "outside the store." Yet Nichols still held the Lowe store responsible for "allowing" wild birds to fly around free in the air. She never reported the incident to the store, but still sued for "at least" $100,000 in damages. In January 2006, the case was thrown out of court. NOTE: Attorneys stoop to new lows everyday, don't they?

2006 AWARDS

Marcy Meckler who was shopping at a mall stepped outside and was "attacked" by a squirrel that lived among the trees and bushes. And "while frantically attempting to escape from the squirrel and detach it from her leg (Meckler) fell and suffered " severe injuries." her lawsuit said. That's the malls fault, the lawsuit claims, demanding more than $50,000, based on the malls "failure to warn" her that squirrels live outside.

Another, - -

Robert Clymer. And FBI agent working a high-profile case in Las Vegas Nevada. Clymer allegedly created a disturbance, lost the magazine from his pistol, then crashed his pickup truck in a drunken stupor - - his blood level was 0.306 percent, more than three times the legal limit for driving in Nevada. He plead guilty to drunk driving because his lawyer explained, "With public officials, we expect them to own up to their mistakes and correct them." Yet Clymer had the gall to sue the manufacturer of his pickup truck, and the dealer he bought it from, because he "somehow lost consciousness" and the truck " somehow produced a heavy smoke that filled his passenger cab." Yep: the drunk-driving accident wasn't his fault, but the truck's fault. Just the type of man you want carrying a gun in the name of the law.

The Winner for 2006: To Mr. Allan Ray Heckard. Even though Heckard is 3 inches shorter, 25 pounds lighter, and 8 years older than former basketball star Michael Jordon , the Portland, Oregon man says he looks a lot like Jordon, and is often confused for him - and thus he deserves $52 million "for defamation and permanent injury" - plus $364 million in "punitive damage for emotional pain and suffering", plus the SAME amount from Nike co-founder Phil Knight. He dropped the suit after Nike's lawyers chatted with him, where they presumably explained how they'd counter-sue if he pressed on.

2007 AWARDS

The family of Robert Hornbeck. Hornbeck volunteered for the Army and served a stint in Iraq. After getting home, he got drunk, wandered into a hotel's service area (passing "DANGER" waring signs) , crawled into an air conditioning unit, and was severely cut when the machinery activated. Unable to care for himself due to his drunkenness, he bled to death. A tragedy, to be sure, but one solely caused by a supposedly responsible adult with military training.Despite his irresponsible behavior - and his perhaps criminal trespassing - Hornbeck's family sued the hotel for $10 million, as if it's reasonably foreseeable that some drunk fool would ignore warnings signs and climb into its heavy duty machinery to sleep off his bender.

The winner of the 2007 award goes to: Roy L. Pearson Jr., . He was a 57- year- old Administrative Law judge from Washington, D.C., who claimed a dry cleaner lost a pair of his pants. He sued the mom and pop dry cleaner for $65,462, 500. You read right. He sued this small mom and pop business for more than $65 million dollars. He represented himself. He even cried in court over the loss of his pants. But the Superior Court judge wasn't phased by his tears. He called the case "vexation litigation", scolded Judge Pearson for "bad faith" and awarded damages to the dry cleaner. But Pearson didn't take no for an answer. He appealed his case and it is still pending. NOTE: A judge is nothing but an attorney that got some breaks or knew someone but it looks like this judges legal mind is still scheming for a big payday.

My point, there are attorneys out there that look to manipulate the system. Many do not want to represent actual injured people but instead look for deep pockets and class action lawsuits by twisting the law to fit their idea of a big payday for themselves. And they wonder why people look at attorney's with a jaundiced . - And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D.,O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by e-mail at:
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