-The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a case filed by a woman against her local electric company. The woman said she had a nervous breakdown and suffered "physical injury and emotional distress" because the company published her rice recipe in its cookbook without her permission. Her Husband also put in a clain for "loss of Companionship."

-A 73 year old Milwaukee woman claimed she became sexually attracted to other women and started having spontaneous orgasms after an electric bingo scoreboard fell on her head. the woman asked for $90,000 from the church where the bingo game took place, but the judge threw out her case because she refused to undergo a court-ordered psychological examination.

-A worker at a truck plant in Virginia sued his employer after it suspended him for attacking its mascot. The worker lost it when an actor dressed as a giant rooster and hired by the automaker to discourage tardiness, snuck up behind the worker and crowed. The judge ruled in favor of the worker, noting that "the bird had it coming."