25 Jan 08 Stella Awards

These are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S.

In fourth position this year:

Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas , garnered 4th Place in
the Stella’s when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after
being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbor’s beagle – even
though the beagle was on a chain in its owner’s fenced yard.  Williams
did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle
might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams
had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog
with a pellet gun.

Grrrrr …  Scratch, scratch.