The True Stella Awards: Honoring real cases of greedy opportunists, frivolous lawsuits, and the law run amok

By Randy Cassingham

Book Overview

Named for the woman who spilled hot coffee on herself and won a lawsuit against a fast-food chain, the Stella collection honors real cases of greedy opportunists, frivolous lawsuits, and the law run amok.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525949135
• ISBN13: 9780525949138
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.6" x 1.3" x 5.6"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

The True Stella Awards

This is a great book - amazing that such frivolous lawsuits actually make it to court! And often win the cases!!!! It sometimes actually makes the reader angry, but is often so hilarious you can't help but laugh! And shake your head in wonder. Well worth buying.

Accurate and funny - truly rare

Randy Cassingham is a great writer with a good sense of ethics. He actually researches what he writes (rare these days). This book is a great combination of amusing stories and concrete ideas about what we can do to reform our legal. Buy two copies of this book - one for you and one for your local lawmaker!

Fascinating, accurate, fair and I couldn't put it down.

This is a collection of real lawsuits that waste court time, legal talent and, maybe more importantly waste money, money that eventually comes from consumers and taxpayers. Mr. Cassingham has referenced all of the suits to prove that no matter how outrageous the suit may seem, all in the book are true. I could not put the book down. I read it in one day which is rare for me. I think every US citizen should read this book. All but the most unethical personal injury lawyers will enjoy it.

A great book that everyone should read

I've been a reader of the "This is True" and "The True Stella Awards" newsletters for years so I was eager to read this book by Randy Cassingham. Like the young reader said in an earlier review, it was hard to put the book down. The cases are interesting and amusing. The author gets his message across loud and clear: first with many, many cases (each getting an even bigger "eye roll" than the last) and then by bringing us back to Earth with suggestions for how we can fix the system.

I couldn't put it down

It's a good thing this book arrived on a Saturday or I would never have made it to school!! Once I started reading the cases I couldn't stop. It's hard to believe that people would really go to court and try to get somebody else to pay for their own stupidity..I mean..if my Dad was stupid enough to use a metal pole to pull something of the electric line, I wouldn't want the whole world to know about it. Or if my Mom got locked in a storage shed and didn't bother to bang on the door or try to get out, (I know, the book says that lady had emotional problems, but still !!). I hope everyone will pay attention to the last part of the book where the writer gives ideas about how to get people to stop filing these kind of lawsuits.