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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Weirdest Legal Cases of 2008

Need a laugh or a good story to share with your
students? Gary Slapper (Director of the Centre for
Law at The Open University) offers his list
of the year's weirdest legal cases in the Times
Online (12/050/2008).

Among the weirdest are:

An English bodybuilder fined for grunting
noisily while weightlifting.

An American women who sued L'Oreal
because the results of one of their hair coloring
products made her depressed.

Check out the article for eight more weird legal cases,
and read Slapper's weekly column on weird cases
every Friday in the Times Online.