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Ron Goldman was on his way home from his restaurant job on June 12, 1994, when he stopped at the home of Nicole Simpson to return a pair of glasses she had left there.
Attorney Nick O'Malley has recently filed a worker's compensation claim on behalf of the O. J. Simpson murder victim, using an obscure legal principle that allows private citizens to take legal action on behalf of the state.
Because Goldman had no fund for injured workers; O'Malley could keep up to 15 percent of the money.
Goldman's father dismissed the claim as a "scam," while the family's attorney, called it "one of the most despicable things I've seen." (Source: CNN News)
Top 10 List
In August of 1995, Florida's then-Attorney General Bob Butterworth released a "Top 10" list of his Department of Corrections inmate litigation:
*Prisoner claims discrimination because he was not given a Department of Corrections raincoat like other inmates.
*Prisoner sues to be served fresh rather than reconstituted milk.
*Prisoner sues for right to conduct martial arts sparring and full-contact fighting as part of his religion.
*Prisoner sues over being served three cheese sandwiches a day for one week while in disciplinary confinement.
*Prisoner sues because he was required to eat off of a paper plate.
*Prisoner who has filed more than 140 actions in state and federal court sues over finding gristle in his turkey leg.
*Prisoner sues to be served fruit juice at meals and three pancakes instead of two.
*Prisoner who murdered five people sues after lightning knocks out the prison's TV satellite dish and he must watch network programs which he says contain violence, profanity and other objectionable material.
*Prisoner sues to be given Reeboks, Adidas, Pony or Avia brand hightops rather than inferior brand sneakers issued by prison.
*Prisoner who lost a lawsuit claiming his rights as a Muslim were violated because the prison put "essence of swine" in his food announces his conversion to Satanism and sues for tarot cards and doves' blood.
Source: www.duhaime.org.
