Whiplash: America's Most Frivolous Lawsuits

by James Percelay

Book Overview

It used to be that when someone spilled hot coffee on their lap, they called themselves clumsy. Nowadays, they call a lawyer. America's win-the-legal-lottery mentality is humorously presented in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740704966
• ISBN13: 9780740704963
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Spilled coffee? How about a spilled milkshake! Hillarious book!!

Thought you've heard all the best lawyer jokes and examples of frivolous lawsuits? Not until you've read this book! We've all heard about the lawsuit over spilled coffee a million times, but Percelay tells us about others -- like a lawsuit over a spilled milkshake -- that'll leave you laughing out loud. Not only well-written, this book has hillarious graphics that add a lot to the stories. This is a book lawyers AND non-lawyers will find highly amusing.

All Star

This is one funny book -- both graphically and in the clever way it's written. Cases like the suit against M & M's for not including a peanut in one of their chocolate morsels had me laughing out loud. The book also shows diagrams (tongue in cheek, I hope) on how to create your own frivolous lawsuits. Who ever thinks America is not overlawyered needs only to read the first chapter of "WHIPLAASH!" I bought this after seeing the author featured on the game show "To Tell The Truth." I recommend this book, but don't sue me if you disagree. David Leiter

Even A Lawyer Can Enjoy This!

This book proves that truth is stranger than fiction. Some of this stuff just couldn't be invented. The authors have done an incredible job coming up with examples of bizarre legal claims, almost all of which apparently were either ultimately dismissed or dropped, I might add. I guess our legal system is working just fine, though I doubt that was the point of the book.

The PERFECT Christmas gift!!

I thought the book was great! It pokes fun of one of the most hated professions and systems in the world, but not in the traditional humor found in a 2nd grade classroom. The book was well researched and presented in an a engaging, intelligent and well-written manner. For Christams, I'm buying a copy for every lawyer I know! Well done, Mr. Percelay!

So sue me!

This is a hilarious book! These true lawsuits are sick enough to make you cry! A perfect "gag" gift (pun intended) and should be given to every damn law student (and lawyer) in America... maybe after reading it, they'll become podiatrists!