Just because you are a zillionaire with no need for the money is no reason not to exploit our deranged legal system to loot taxpayers for some jackpot justice:

A federal jury found Wednesday that Los Angeles County must pay Kobe Bryant’s widow $16 million for emotional distress caused by deputies and firefighters sharing photos of the bodies of the NBA star and his daughter taken at the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed them.

The rich lady is offended because some first responders looked at some pictures. Consequently, everyone who pays taxes in LA County owes her money.

The courts are run by lunatics and shame no longer exists, so what’s to stop Vanessa Bryant from cashing in big on her “emotional distress”?

County attorney J. Mira Hashmall … emphasized that the photos had never appeared publicly, and had never even been seen by the plaintiffs. She said that meant that Sheriff Alex Villanueva and other officials had taken decisive and effective action when they ordered those who had the photos to delete them.

How and whether Vanessa Bryant was harmed by the pictures are unclear. The apparent purpose of the looting spree was not so much to compensate her for her supposed injury as for jurors to express what loyal fans they are of Kobe Bryant.

The jury returned its verdict on Kobe Bryant Day, which is celebrated on Aug. 24 because it uses both of his jersey numbers — 8 and 24 — and is the day after his birthday. Tuesday would have been Kobe’s 44th birthday.

Think how many hours you would have to work at your job — or rather, how many lifetimes — to earn as much as Vanessa Bryant gets from being married to a dead sports star and proclaiming herself to be upset.

Work doesn’t pay. Posing as a victim pays. That’s why we see ever less of the former and ever more of the latter.

Vanessa Bryant cried quietly as [the verdict] was read.

She might spare one of her lucrative tears for taxpayers.

On tips from Wiggins and Feet2Fire.

Even as students pass through public schools without learning to read and write, taxpayers are bled white by the looting spree that is public education:

Thousands of former Black and Latino teachers in New York City stand to collect an astonishing $1.8 billion in damages after the city stopped fighting a decades-long discrimination lawsuit which alleged that a licensing test that teachers were formerly required to pass was biased.

When leftists sue a government run by leftists, jackpot justice is a foregone conclusion.

Between 1990 and 2014, New York State required all public school teachers to pass a Liberal Arts and Sciences Test in order to maintain their teaching license. In 1996, a group of minority teachers and prospective educators filed a lawsuit to abolish the testing requirement, citing a disparity in passage rates between white and minority test-takers.

According to liberal ideology, if whites do better on a test, then the test is racist. To suggest that those who score poorly are less qualified would be — you guessed it — racist.

Those blessed with the good fortune to be oppressed by racism get to loot the rest of us via the government.

Under the settlement just reached, the city has already given payouts totaling $835 million, with up to another billion potentially in play.

That’s how much you get for flunking a test. There is no cash reward for passing the test. Liberalism rewards failure, not success — unless you count this as success:

Sylvia Alvarez … will receive $1.1 million after failing the test ten times and ultimately losing her job. Another former teacher, Theodore Regis, who lost his teaching job after failing the test five times, “earned” himself a payout of $1.2 million.

It’s no wonder that students can’t pass meaningful tests, if the teachers themselves are not expected to pass them.

As far back as the 2018-19 academic year, per-pupil spending in the city was $28,004, by far the highest among the nation’s 100 largest school systems. By 2022, according to the New York Post, it had risen to $34,900 per pupil, a growth rate of more than twice the inflation figure from 2000-2021.

Yet no matter how much money is wasted, NYC public schools are a failure, due to the liberal ideology that suffuses them.

The few who can, escape to charter schools:

Eighth graders in New York’s largest charter-school network, Success Academy, recently excelled in four of the five Regent exams that are required for graduation from high school. The students’ overall pass rates on all the exams were a stunning 93% or higher.

However, in a country run by moonbats, failing tests is more advantageous than passing them.

On a tip from Blackjack.

Fail to hire a black transsexual and you may be sued. Hire a black transsexual like Erin Taylor — and you may be sued.

Weeps woke WaPo:

When Erin Taylor, 29, began working at a Decatur, Ga., Chick-fil-A in August last year, she [sic] thought it would be a turning point: a chance to climb up “the corporate ladder” and, after nearly two pandemic years, a way to gain some financial stability, she [sic] said.

Instead, she [sic] was met with sexual harassment from co-workers on her [sic] very first day at work, Taylor alleges in a discrimination lawsuit filed last month.

Chick-fil-A put Shrillary and Obama donor Rodney Bullard in charge of its charitable donations. It shovels money at leftist causes, and cut off the Salvation Army for being deemed insufficiently pro-LGBT. But 10 years ago, CEO Dan Cathy said he supported traditional marriage. The franchise will never be forgiven for this sin against leftism, no matter how obsequiously Cathy displays his submission to political correctness.

Her [sic] lawsuit alleges that for four months, she [sic] was regularly misgendered at work by multiple co-workers and taunted with homophobic and transphobic comments in front of management and customers.

That should be good for a few $million. Beats making chicken sandwiches for a living.

Nearly a year after first working at Chick-fil-A, Taylor says she [sic] struggles to recognize herself [sic]. She [sic] is constantly on guard, finds it difficult to trust people and experiences anxiety and panic attacks, she [sic] said.

Whereas before Chick-fil-A oppressed him, Taylor was normal and well adjusted.

The store fired Taylor in November for tardiness and for allegedly walking off during her [sic] shift.

The racists at Chick-fil-A forget that according to the Smithsonian, punctuality is a symptom of whiteness.

Taylor is seeking damages, including for lost wages and benefits and “mental and emotional suffering,” according to the complaint. She [sic] said she [sic] hopes the lawsuit inspires other transgender people to stand up for themselves.

Transgender bullies are the last people to need encouragement to stand up for themselves. This tiny minority has forced American culture to conform to its literally psychotic ideology, as the media’s use of feminine pronouns to describe guys like Taylor and even female prisoner-impregnator Demi Minor confirms. However, the lawsuit will no doubt encourage more suits if successful.

Enjoy your chicken sandwiches while you can. The vindictive LGBT mob will likely sue Chick-fil-A out of existence, before moving on to everyone else they don’t like or who has money.

On a tip from Lyle.

If auto insurance gets even more expensive, it will be in part because insurers are now required to pay massive jackpots to people who contract venereal diseases by fornicating in cars:

The Missouri Court of Appeals has upheld a $5.2 million judgment against an insurance company in the case of a Jackson County woman who claimed she unwittingly caught a sexually transmitted disease from her former romantic partner in his car.

The ex-boyfriend was found liable for not telling her he had a tumor. But he doesn’t have pockets as deep as GEICO’s, so everyone who buys car insurance picks up the tab for the jackpot justice.

According to court papers, the woman, identified in court records only as M.O., notified GEICO in February 2021 of her intention to seek monetary damages, alleging she contracted HPV, the human papillomavirus, from an insured member in his automobile.

In the olden days, when the notion of personal responsibility for your own behavior still existed, women tended to refrain from sex outside of marriage. One of the benefits was that they were less likely to contract STDs.

On tips from Heckrules, Wiggins, Dragon’s Lair, and seaoh.

The religion of our moonbat rulers requires sacrificial victims. During the tsunami of Black Lives Matter/Antifa riots, the media priesthood focused on Kyle Rittenhouse, a good kid who tried to protect people’s property and who was forced to shoot sociopathic scumbags who were trying to kill him. He was cast in the role of Emmanuel Goldstein for a marathon version of the Two Minutes Hate.

Fortunately, there was ample video evidence of Rittenhouse’s innocence. This country is still sufficiently civilized for him to be found not guilty in a court of law. As noted previously regarding the vicious, deliberately deceptive, and wantonly irresponsible media,

The liberal media propagandists driving Rittenhouse’s persecution should be sued. They learned nothing from what they did to Nick Sandmann. Maybe this time the lesson will stick.

Whether the lesson sticks is doubtful, but they are going to get sued all right:

Rittenhouse went beyond just announcing he was suing the media for the lies they spewed about him. Instead, he and his legal team had set up an organization, The Media Accountability Project (TMAP), that would take up his cases and the cases of others who the media heinously targeted with lies and misinformation in an attempt to ruin their lives.

The odious Whoopi Goldberg, who continued demonizing him even after he was acquitted, are among those in the crosshairs.

The ultimate accountability will come when it sinks in to the public at large that the liberal media establishment is malign and has zero credibility. Without an audience, it has no power.

On tips from KirklesWorth, Eddie_Valiant, and Dave F.

They could repeal the Second Amendment, rendering us defenseless, if they had public support. But they don’t, so Democrats pursue this key objective by insidious means — like lawsuits:

Families of Sandy Hook victims reached a $73 million settlement Tuesday in their lawsuit against Remington Arms, manufacturer of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle used to kill 20 kids and six staff members in the 2012 massacre.

The parents of any murdered child have sympathy. This sympathy is exploited for financial gain.

Josh Koskoff, a lawyer for victims, said Tuesday that the suit was just as much about greed as it was guns.

Yes, you might say so Josh. The greed of trial lawyers would shame a swarm of locusts.

Good thing the massacre wasn’t committed by driving through a playground. Then we would have to pay more for cars to finance the looting spree.

It should go without saying that Remington bears no more responsibility for Sandy Hook than Brunswick would if a maniac threw a bowling ball off an overpass and through someone’s windshield.

The lawyer said the settlement “should serve as a wake-up call not only to the gun industry, but also the insurance and banking companies that prop it up.”

This implies that the locust swarm may come after banks for processing credit card payments used to purchase firearms. As Willie Sutton might have said, that’s where the money is.

Obama’s tyrannical “wingman” Eric Holder would approve. Remember Operation Choke Point?

Public sympathy is also exploited to advance political objectives.

Remington declared bankruptcy for the second time in 2020… The company was apparently drowning in debt from legal fees.

That is the goal for liberals. Sure, you have a right to bear arms. But how will you acquire a firearm after trial lawyers have looted into bankruptcy everyone involved in their manufacture and sale?

If Democrats can use lawsuits to effectively repeal the Second Amendment, they will apply this tactic on the First, which they hate even more. Any speech that people like Susan Wojcicki deem “harmful” will expose you to financial ruin. After all, speech is violence, according to woke ideology.

On tips from Varla and Wiggins.

Would you step on a rusty nail for $10 million? Then put one in your pocket and head for the nearest Walmart:

A jury has awarded $10 million to a South Carolina woman who sued Walmart after she needed multiple surgeries because of an infection that resulted from stepping on a rusty nail inside one of the company’s stores in Florence, her lawyers said.

Under liberal rule, jackpot justice has divorced wealth from accomplishment. Create wealth and they will take it away from you, to give to someone who doesn’t deserve it as a reward for being a victim.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Big Government has provided employers a compelling reason to avoid hiring workers with Down syndrome. Anyone you hire, you might have to fire. Fire someone with Down syndrome and it may cost you bigly:

A Wisconsin jury has determined that Walmart violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it fired a sales associate who has Down syndrome over schedule-related issues.

After a four-day trial, the jury awarded Marlo Spaeth, who had worked at Walmart for about 16 years, more than $125 million in damages, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced last week.

On top of the $125 million punitive damages, Marlo gets $150,000 in compensatory damages. It would take a long time to earn that much working at Walmart. In our society, it is much more remunerative to be a victim and get the money for free.

Moonbats may feel pleased with themselves for being pleased that Walmart was punished on behalf of an allegedly oppressed person with Down syndrome. Yet these same people support killing babies in the womb for having the same condition.

Actually, companies like Walmart don’t pay for jackpot justice lawsuits. The rest of us do, through higher prices.

The EEOC brought the lawsuit. Federal bureauweenies eating away at everything like a massive termite infestation is something else we all pay for.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Never let the tip of your index finger touch the tip of your thumb while your other fingers are extended. Someone might think you are making the okay sign, which until recently signified approval, but like so much else has recently been declared racist by the thought police. In the ultrawoke world of baseball, it will get you banned for life from Wrigley Field. In the ultrawoke world of NBCUniversal, it will get you fired and the company sued:

Two families are suing Universal Orlando after an actor dressed as the “Despicable Me” character Gru flashed a white power symbol while posing for photos with biracial children.

The lawsuit filed on the behalf of two girls, who were 5 and 6 years old at the time of the photos, alleges that they suffered humiliation and mental anguish from the separate episodes at the theme park in Orlando, news station WKMG reported.

In the unlikely event that the kids suffered any mental anguish, this was caused by their greedy parents and other moonbats lying to them that they had been oppressed.

The looters are seeking $30,000 in damages. The guy who made the okay sign — almost certainly accidentally — has of course been fired.

Here’s what passes as racist oppression circa 2021:

Liberals deeming the okay sign to be a thought crime is not totally arbitrary. It is the result of a 4chan hoax, launched to prove that they could be duped into believing absolutely anything to be racist. The joke — which as usual is on moonbats — is that the sign used by all sorts of people for as long as anyone remembers actually forms a “WP” for “white power.” There is no fool like the willful fool.

On a tip from Wiggins.

As noted yesterday, in a society that has rejected the concept of individual responsibility, there is nothing you can do that is so foolish you cannot blame someone else for the consequences and then sue them. If you can sue because your relative drank hand sanitizer, why not sue because you put Gorilla Glue in your hair? Looks like Tessica Brown will give it a try:

Tessica’s hired an attorney and is weighing her legal options against Gorilla Glue. We’re told the label on the product she used says do not use on eyes, skin or clothing … with no mention of hair, which Tessica feels is misleading.

Enterprising lawyers are probably checking now to determine whether it says on the label not to spray Gorilla Glue on your Chicken McNuggets before eating them.

GG says all of its products are considered permanent and the packaging states it too … but we’re told Tessica felt it was okay because the product said multi-use.

If they don’t explicitly tell you not to do it, then you can do it and sue — or rather threaten to sue and then accept a payoff. Since meaningful tort reform is unthinkable under Democrat rule, expect future warning labels to go on for many pages.

On tips from Stormfax and Wiggins.

One nice thing about living in a society that has rejected the concept of individual responsibility is that there is nothing you can do that is so foolish you cannot blame someone else for the consequences and then sue them. If your foolishness kills you, your relatives can sue on your behalf. A woman died from drinking hand sanitizer; her survivors are suing 4e Brands North America for producing it:

The federal lawsuit filed Friday in St. Louis says the St. Louis County Medical examiner determined that Kayla Stagner’s death was caused by acute methanol intoxication, and a bottle of Blumen Advanced Instate Sanitizer that was tested in connection with the autopsy contained dangerous levels of methanol. …

The lawsuit said Stagner, who was an alcoholic, is believed to have drank the Blumen hand sanitizer, which was recalled last year after officials determined that it contained methanol. Significant methanol exposure can cause nausea, vomiting, blindness and death, particularly if it is ingested.

But hand sanitizer obviously isn’t intended to be ingested.

Before the Biden Administration puts fossil fuel companies out of business, someone might try drinking gasoline. Energy companies still have plenty of money to be looted through the courts.

It isn’t easy doing business in a country where you might be sued at any time for anything.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.