Lawsuit Facts

Dmitry Agarkov received a credit card offer with a 45% interest rate buried in the fine print. He scanned the contract, rewrote it to include 0% interest, no fees, and penalty clauses if the bank changed the terms, then mailed it back. The bank signed it without reading. A court upheld his version. He counter-sued for 24 million rubles. The bank settled. He got a special debit card.

Microsoft once sued a student named Mike Rowe for registering the domain 'MikeRoweSoft.com'.

A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 — 5,000 of the spiders.

One of the longest early domain name disputes was the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued Michael Doughney, who had registered the domain for a parody site called 'People Eating Tasty Animals' — the legal battle lasted from 1995 to 2000.

A woman with Down syndrome worked at Walmart for 16 years with glowing reviews. When a new scheduling system changed her shift, she asked to keep her old hours because eating dinner at irregular times made her sick. Walmart refused and fired her for "absenteeism." A jury took three hours to award her $125 million.

After 14 years at Chipotle, manager Jeanette Ortiz filed a workers' compensation claim for carpal tunnel syndrome. Within months, she was accused of stealing $626 from the safe - caught on video, they said. When she asked to see the footage, Chipotle told her it had been destroyed. A jury awarded her $7.97 million.

Victor Robinson graduated Werner Enterprises' own truck driving school, earned his CDL, and obtained a federal exemption allowing him to drive commercially. When he applied to Werner for a job, their VP of Safety told him flat out they wouldn't hire him because he was deaf. A jury awarded him $36 million.

After a truck smashed into Timothy Kuhn's stationary car at 45 mph, his own insurer USAA - which had already ruled him not at fault - offered him $10,000 for a traumatic brain injury. Then they intervened in his lawsuit and argued the crash was HIS fault. Days before trial they finally offered the full $250,000 policy limit. The jury gave him $114 million instead.

After 31 years at Liberty Mutual, senior case manager Joy Slagel was fired the day she returned from medical leave - over a paperwork mix-up on a Disney social media investigation. A Los Angeles jury awarded her $103 million in December 2025, the largest age discrimination verdict in US history. The jury found Liberty Mutual had acted with "malice or oppression."

A school groundskeeper spent years mixing and spraying Roundup and was twice soaked to the skin when the equipment failed. When he was diagnosed with terminal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, he sued Monsanto. A San Francisco jury awarded him $289 million in the first-ever Roundup trial - $250 million of it punitive. The day the verdict landed, Bayer lost $14 billion in stock value.

Virginia inmate Robert Lee Brock sued himself for $5 million. His argument: getting drunk violated his own civil rights and caused him to commit crimes. Since he could not work in prison, he asked the state to pay the judgment on his behalf. The judge praised the innovative approach, then dismissed the case as totally ludicrous. He sued the one person responsible for his problems and lost.

Wells Fargo held both mortgages on a Florida condo. When it foreclosed, the law required it to sue all lien holders, including itself. So it hired one law firm to sue Wells Fargo and a second to defend Wells Fargo. The defense admitted it held the mortgage, then denied everything else.

Ricky Jackson is 18, headed to death row for a crime he did not commit. The only witness is a 12-year-old boy whose story was fed to him by police. He walks out 39 years, 3 months, and 9 days later - the longest wrongful sentence in US history. Cleveland pays him $7.2 million. He forgives the kid.

Alice Roque worked at Octapharma Plasma for 19 years. At 74, they moved her to a standing role. Her back hurt, so she asked for a chair - twice. Her supervisor suggested she resign instead. Then they fired her. A San Diego jury awarded her $11.2 million. She hadn't asked for a single dollar in lost wages.