Minnie_Beebe
02-06-2004, 05:28 PM
FEBRUARY 5 -- It took almost three days, but the first lawsuit has been filed in connection with Janet Jackson's breast. A Tennessee woman yesterday filed a proposed class action lawsuit "on behalf of all Americans" who watched the Super Bowl halftime show and were somehow injured by Miss Jackson's adorned nipple. In the below federal complaint, Terri Carlin, a 47-year-old Knoxville bank employee, contends that Jackson's exposure and other "sexually explicit conduct" during halftime festivities caused viewers to "suffer outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury." Details of those supposed injuries were not further described in the complaint filed by attorney Wayne A. Ritchie II. Along with Jackson, Carlin has named as defendants Justin Timberlake, CBS, MTV, and Viacom. Carlin's complaint seeks compensatory and punitive damages, though an exact dollar figure is not specified. But it seems billions would be in order since Carlin notes that punitive damages should not exceed the gross revenues of all defendants for the past three years.
http://thesmokinggun.com/archive/janetsuit1.html
Since when can a nipple cause serious injury, other than seeing the unusual sight of female jogger running topless as you're driving? Since when is making someone mad against the law? And if someone is embarrassed by a nipple, I'm embarressed for them.
Why is it that, virtually, the entire breast can be seen, but the nipple is this taboo thing?
This "Embarrassment" caused by the sight of a womans boob, in all honesty, is what has caused people to file lawsuits against mothers who breast feed their babies in public.
It's time that this society GROWS UP when it comes to nudity. In a world where children are doing drugs, getting drunk, and pretending to kill people in video games (And in too many cases, doing it in reality), is the sight of a womans tit all that horrible a thing?
http://thesmokinggun.com/archive/janetsuit1.html
Since when can a nipple cause serious injury, other than seeing the unusual sight of female jogger running topless as you're driving? Since when is making someone mad against the law? And if someone is embarrassed by a nipple, I'm embarressed for them.
Why is it that, virtually, the entire breast can be seen, but the nipple is this taboo thing?
This "Embarrassment" caused by the sight of a womans boob, in all honesty, is what has caused people to file lawsuits against mothers who breast feed their babies in public.
It's time that this society GROWS UP when it comes to nudity. In a world where children are doing drugs, getting drunk, and pretending to kill people in video games (And in too many cases, doing it in reality), is the sight of a womans tit all that horrible a thing?