{"id":589,"date":"2004-02-05T07:15:36","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T12:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/suffering_outrage_anger_and_se\/"},"modified":"2004-02-05T07:15:36","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T12:15:36","slug":"suffering_outrage_anger_and_se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/suffering_outrage_anger_and_se\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffering Outrage, Anger, and Serious Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how you prove the damages for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/local_news\/article\/0,1406,KNS_347_2630274,00.html\">this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Knoxville woman filed a proposed class action lawsuit Wednesday against Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, MTV, CBS and Viacom, contending she and other viewers were injured by their lewd actions during the Super Bowl halftime show.<br \/>\nTerri Carlin filed her lawsuit &#8220;on behalf of all Americans who watched the halftime show&#8221; in federal court in Knoxville.<br \/>\nThe lawsuit stems from Sunday&#8217;s now infamous exposure of one of Jackson&#8217;s breasts when Timberlake ripped off part of her costume during their performance on the CBS network.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n&#8220;As a direct and proximate result of the broadcast of the acts, (Carlin) and millions of others saw the acts and were caused to suffer outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury,&#8221; the lawsuit filed by Knoxville attorney Wayne A. Ritchie II states.<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t specify the type of serious injury.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nBecause the game is broadcast worldwide, Ritchie also wrote that the actions harmed the &#8220;standing and credibility&#8221; of Americans throughout the world.<br \/>\nCarlin&#8217;s lawsuit seeks compensatory and punitive damages worth billions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep.  America&#8217;s credibility is definitely shot now.<br \/>\nI feel outraged that I wasn&#8217;t watching the show when everyone else got to see Jackson&#8217;s boob.  Can I join the class too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/suffering_outrage_anger_and_se\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Suffering Outrage, Anger, and Serious Injury\"><p>I&#8217;m not sure how you prove the damages for this one: A Knoxville woman filed a proposed class action lawsuit Wednesday against Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, MTV, CBS and Viacom, contending she and other viewers were injured by their lewd actions during the Super Bowl halftime show. Terri Carlin filed her lawsuit &#8220;on behalf of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}