10 of the strangest lawsuits making headlines
The following lawsuits exemplify the lighter, and sometimes bizarre, side of the legal world.
December 14, 2011 at 07:20 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.com
Bothersome Burping
After a 13-year-old boy in Albuquerque, N.M., allegedly “burped audibly” in class, his teacher called a school resource officer and complained the boy was disrupting her lesson. The seventh grader was then promptly handcuffed and carted off to juvenile detention, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed against an Albuquerque school principal, a teacher and a city police officer.
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