{"id":1042,"date":"2014-12-26T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/fun\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2014-12-26T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T16:02:09","slug":"frivolous-lawsuits-by-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Frivolous Lawsuits by Inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s jailbirds don&#8217;t give up. Disappointed by the criminal justice system, this plucky lot still has faith in the civil side. Last year, the states spent $81 million defending what state attorneys general called frivolous lawsuits. Here are a few favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Virginia inmate tried to sue himself for $5 million on the grounds that he had gotten drunk and caused himself to violate his religious beliefs by committing a crime. Because he had no money, he wanted the state to pay the $5 million.<\/li>\n<li>A convicted New York rapist sued the state, claiming he lost sleep and suffered headaches and chest pains after being given a &#8220;defective haircut&#8221; by an unqualified barber.<\/li>\n<li>A Nevada inmate sued when he ordered two jars of chunky peanut butter at the Nevada State Prison canteen and received one chunky and one creamy.<\/li>\n<li>A San Quentin death row inmate sued California, claiming his civil rights were violated because his packages were sent via UPS rather than the U.S. Postal Service.<\/li>\n<li>An Oklahoma inmate alleged his religious freedoms were violated but could not say just how, because the main tenet of his faith was that all its practices were secret.<\/li>\n<li>An Arizona inmate sued when he was not invited to a pizza party that prison employees held for a guard leaving his job.<\/li>\n<li>An Indiana prisoner sued because he wanted to obtain Rogain for his baldness.<\/li>\n<li>An Ohio inmate sued for being denied possession of soap on a rope.<\/li>\n<li>An Oklahoma inmate sued because he was forced to listen to country music.<\/li>\n<li>A Colorado con sued for early release because &#8220;everyone knows a con only serves about three years of a 10-year sentence.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s jailbirds don&#8217;t give up. Disappointed by the criminal justice system, this plucky lot still has faith in the civil side. Last year, the states spent $81 million defending what state attorneys general called frivolous lawsuits. Here are a few favorites: A Virginia inmate tried to sue himself for $5 million on the grounds that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[460,902,1196],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copsrobbers","tag-criminals","tag-lawsuits","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}