Former host of ‘The Price Is Right’ Bob Barker and CBS are facing the a tenth lawsuit. The long-running series’ most recent lawsuit was filed by former staffer Deborah Curling.
“It’s a complaint detailing emotional abuse and sexual harassment on the set during Bob Barker’s fifteen year reign of terror as one of the show’s executive producers,” Debbie’s attorney, Nick Alden, tells The National Enquirer.
“The basis of the claim is that in fifteen years, at least seven lawsuits-all filed by women-were filed for discrimination ranging from sexual harassment to racial discrimination.”
Because of this alleged treatment, Debbie says she “has suffered and continued to suffer severe emotional and physical distress.”
Earlier media reports alleged Bob Barker was forced to leave his hosting post under the threat of a racially charged lawsuit.
October 5th, 2007
Breaking news on the world track circuit, where Amy Shipley of The Washington Post is reporting that star sprinter and jumper Marion Jones has acknowledged using the steroid THG leading up to the Sydney Summer Games in 2000.
Use of THG, also known as “the clear,” has also been acknowledged by baseball stars Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield in BALCO-related testimony to a federal grand jury, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
According to the Post, Jones, who won five medals in Sydney, plans to plead guilty tomorrow to lying to federal agents about her performance-enhancing drug use. In December 2004, she sued BALCO founder Victor Conte, contending he falsely accused her of taking performance-enhancing drugs.
October 5th, 2007
A question posed by jurors at the trial of RIAA victim Jammie Thomas suggests they’re seriously considering finding her guilty as charged - that’s to say, guilty of copyright infringement, says Wired’s David Kravets from Duluth, Minnesota, where it’s winding up.
They’ve asked US district judge Michael Davis to, “instruct them on the minimum amount of damages they could render,” says the story, going on:
The verdict form said if jurors believe Thomas’ file sharing on Kazaa was “willful,” they can ding her for up to $150,000 for each of the 24 violations in the case. But the form left off the minimum, $750, per violation.
“They just want to know what the bottom figure is for willful,” the judge told lawyers during a brief proceeding.
She has 24 counts lodged against her.
But if the jury does vote in favour of Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the news will spread like wild-fire on- and offline and hatred of the RIAA and the companies which keep it alive will mushroom exponentially, with all that implies.
Few people who are familiar with the four-year sue ‘em all war believe the labels are justified in waging it and a win for the Big 4 could easily turn Thomas into a cause - a martyr, in effect - prompting a far more intensified and widespread boycott of corporate music product than exists at the moment.
October 5th, 2007
(CNN) — Ray Herrera does not mince words about what his 12-year-old son, Jack, went through. “It’s beyond description to watch your most precious, beautiful, wonderful, loved one become a vegetable essentially and then die,” Herrera said. In August, Jack returned from summer camp that included swims in Texas’ Lake LBJ. Five days after coming home he was dead, killed by a microscopic amoeba.
Jack is one of six people to die this summer in the United States from the naegleria fowleri amoeba. The amoeba enters the human body through the nose. It then travels to the brain, where it begins to feed. Symptoms of the amoeba’s rampage begin 1 to 14 days after infection and resemble the flu. At the onset of those symptoms the amoeba victim’s health swiftly declines. “Folks lapse into a coma, there are abnormal movements of the eyes and a terrible cascade of events leading to the actual death of parts of the brain.”
Although exposure to the amoeba is usually fatal, Sherin says a cocktail of drugs can fight the amoeba if administered in time. The key, he says, is identifying the amoeba early.
Until this summer there were only 24 known cases of the virus in the U.S. since 1989, according to the CDC. Health officials cannot explain the spike in cases this summer, except that weather plays a factor.
Another question health officials have is why the amoeba seems to appear more often in young males. All six victims this summer were male, ages 10 to 22 years old. But other than wearing nose plugs while swimming or staying out of freshwater above 80 degrees Fahrenheit, there is little people can do to prevent exposure to the amoeba.
Health officials say federal or local governments have few tools to combat the amoeba. The health department has posted signs at 15 swimming and boating areas where people may face exposure to the amoeba. The effectiveness of the signs appears mixed. As he sunbathed near a sign warning of amoebas, John Walters seemed unconcerned about danger possibly lurking beneath the clear, inviting waters. “Its no worse I suppose than the gator signs over there and somebody did get attacked here once.”
October 5th, 2007
Former host of ‘The Price Is Right’ Bob Barker and CBS are facing the a tenth lawsuit. The long-running series’ most recent lawsuit was filed by former staffer Deborah Curling. 
