http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4672792.stm

Hard-right political activist Nick Griffin was apparently covertly filmed – prior to the Tube bombings – warning of Muslim violence. Never mind that it actually came true. He was tried by the Crown for “stirring up racial hatred.” I have not seen Big Media stateside covering this trial, though I haven’t been checking everywhere.

Two Salvadoran illegal immigrants found themselves confronted in 2003, upon making their way informally into the United States, by pistol-wielding Casey Nethercott..

A Cochise County judge has since awarded the pair ownership of Mr. Nethercott’s 70 acre ranch near Bisbee, Arizona, as the result of the confrontation.

http://neveryetmelted.com/?p=541

Denmark’s government ruled in 2001 that institutionalized citizens have the right to have sex, and that caregivers must even take them to visit prostitutes. (Prostitution is legal in Denmark.) Mr. Torben Vegener Hansen, 59, who has cerebral palsy and lives at home on government assistance, is challenging the government also to pay for prostitutes to make house calls, claiming that he is unable to have sex manually because of his illness and must be accorded this ‘human right’ by a service similar to the government’s meals-on-wheels program.

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/02/03/0313250.shtml

Small record company hires musical historian to transcribe original 17th century musical scores into modern notation. Historian later sues for royalties, claiming his work entitled him to claim original copyright on the scores. Record company eventually loses, and has pay small amount to historian (according to UK satirical magazine Private Eye, about £5.000)

Legal bill from plaintiff’s lawyers? £758.000