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• [Lawsuit fact 1] Volkswagen was sued by Czechoslovakian car maker Tatra before World War 2 because the original Beetle was so similar to the Tatra T97. After Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 the lawsuit was canceled by the Nazis.

  Corporation, Countries, Lawsuit, Nazisource

• [Lawsuit fact 2] Volkswagen was sued by Czechoslovakian car maker Tatra before WWII because the original Beetle was so similar to the Tatra T97. After Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, the lawsuit was canceled by the Nazis.

  Corporation, Lawsuit, Nazi, Transportsource

• [Lawsuit fact 3] Jonathan Lee Riches got the Guinness world record for having filed the highest number of lawsuits in the world. When he heard of this, he sued the Guinness Book of World Records.

  Lawsuit, Peoplesource

• [Lawsuit fact 4] NFL tried to sue rapper M.I.A. for 100% of her earnings for life (if she ever earned over $2 million) because she flipped a middle finger at the 2012 super bowl halftime show.

  Lawsuit, Sportssource

• [Lawsuit fact 5] In 1977, singer Tom Waits was arrested outside a coffee shop for trying to stop men from bullying other patrons. These men were plainclothes officers, and Waits was charged with disturbing the peace. Waits disputed the charge, was found not guilty, and successfully sued the police dept. for $7,500

  Lawsuit, Musicsource

• [Lawsuit fact 6] In 1981, a tenant was evicted in Germany after spreading Surströmming (fermented Baltic Sea herring) brine in the stairway. The landlord was taken to court, where he brought a can of Surströmming as evidence. After being opened, the court unanimously ruled in his favor because of the smell.

  Food, Lawsuit, Placessource

• [Lawsuit fact 7] In 2017, a dairy company in Maine lost a lawsuit about overtime pay due to the absence of the Oxford comma.

  Language, Lawsuitsource

• [Lawsuit fact 8] The U.S. Supreme Court has only tried one criminal case in its history, a 1906 contempt of court case against a Tennessee sheriff who ignored court rulings for the rights of a black man and allowed a mob to lynch him.

  Crime, Lawsuitsource

• [Lawsuit fact 9] A federal court in California ruled in 2016 that a lawsuit against Facebook can proceed. The suit claims Facebook is illegally collecting biometric data from people "tagged" in photos posted by other users.

  Lawsuit, Mediasource

• [Lawsuit fact 10] Supreme stole their famous box logo from another artist named Barbara Kruger. When Supreme sued another company for copyright infringement of their box logo, Kruger was asked for comment by a Complex editor. Her comment was “What a ridiculous clusterf*ck of totally uncool jokers.”

  Corporation, Lawsuitsource

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