With yesterday’s successful crash into a comet by NASA’s “Deep Impact” probe, the press is remembering a Russian astrologer’s nine-billion-ruble lawsuit in Moscow court claiming that the mission will “deform her horoscope.” (She claims it’s not about the money.)
We covered this on May 19, and the press reports that the case is scheduled for trial July 28. NASA representatives did not attend a July 4 hearing. Russian law supposedly allows “plaintiffs to recover an amount equal to the cost of the undertaking that allegedly does the harm.” (“Lawsuit aims to halt comet bomb”, Baltimore Sun, Jun. 27; AP, Jul. 5; Itar-TASS, Jul. 4).
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Astrologer Impacted by NASA – And Sues
Marina Bai is suing NASA for more than $300 million in Moscow?s Presnensky district court to compensate her for her ‘moral sufferings.’ Her complaint? ‘Bai asserts that Deep Impact will “infringe upon my system of spiritual and life values, in…
Astrologer Impacted by NASA – And Sues
Marina Bai is suing NASA for more than $300 million in Moscow?s Presnensky district court to compensate her for her ‘moral sufferings.’ Her complaint? ‘Bai asserts that Deep Impact will “infringe upon my system of spiritual and life values, in…
Not about the money, cont’d
In our continuing series (see Jul. 5): the family of 58-year-old Gerald Glover, who became ill following the recent Toronto outbreak of Legionnaire’s Disease, is suing. “It’s never been about the money,” said his daughter…