Reality-TV stars Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian are being sued by a group of New Yorkers who claim there's no possible way a diet pill called QuickTrim could have helped the sisters lose weight.

According to the $5 million class-action lawsuit, the sisters, who serve as celebrity spokespeople for QuickTrim, waged a campaign of lies when they claimed the diet pill helped them get their rock hard bikini bodies because the main ingredient is caffeine.  "The FDA has determined [caffeine] is not a safe or effective treatment for weight control," notes the filing.

The plaintiffs claim they would never have purchased the QuickTrim products if they had known the truth. Rather, they claim they were misled for years by the unsubstantiated lies put out by the sisters through commercials, magazines and social media, including a tweet on Twitter by Kim that said, "Our QuickTrim cleanse will be massive! Khloe has already lost so much weight."

Remarkably, media reports indicate that the Kardashian camp is silent on the issue.
 
—Source:  TMZ.com

A judge in a New York City court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a New Jersey man who got so drunk playing Beer Pong that he walked across a busy highway and was struck by a car.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lucy Billings threw out Alan Berger's lawsuit against Greenwich Village's Wicked Willy's, finding Berger signed up for the beer-drinking game of his own free will.  The object of the game is to bounce a ping pong ball into another player's cup and get them to drink.

“Despite the game tables, cups and alcohol [that the] defendant bar made available to plaintiff and other bar patrons without serving the alcohol or monitoring its consumption, plaintiff voluntarily engaged in the drinking game” and “consumed alcohol to the point of diminished capacity,” Billings wrote.

Berger's suit charged that the bar should have monitored the game to make sure players weren't getting visibly drunk.  According to news reports, Berger engaged in a heated 3 1/2-hour match with friends playing the game, eventually left the bar, took a bus back to New Jersey and was still so drunk he tried to cross a highway and got hit by a car going 50 miles an hour. 

Berger suffered numerous injuries, including a broken hip, leg and foot, tears in both his knees, and a lacerated liver, the lawyer said. When his blood was checked at the hospital about four hours after he left the bar, his blood alcohol content was .26 — almost four times higher than the legal driving limit.

The suit sought to hold the bar accountable for having “organized, created, designed and set up” the Beer Pong area in the back of the bar, and then failing to monitor it.  It asked for unspecified money damages for his “severe shock, pain and mental anguish.”

Justice Billings, however, found that Beer Pong players are playing at their own risk. She found the bar had “no duty” to “warn patrons regarding the risks of engaging in the drinking activity” or “monitoring its participants.”

—Source:  nypost.com

An Alpha Tau Omega fraternity brother at Marshall University in Huntington (WV) is suing his fraternity and a fellow fraternity brother after an attempted bottle-rocket launch from a drunken frat boy's anus backfired.

According to the lawsuit, Louis Helmburg, III was injured when the bottle rocket blew up in defendant Travis Hughes' rectum, causing Helmburg to jump back and fall off the fraternity house's deck, about four feet below.  Helmburg "became lodged between the deck and an air-conditioning unit," the suit says.

Helmburg is suing Hughes and the Alpha Tau Omega house for medical expenses, pain and suffering, and time lost playing on Marshall's baseball team.  Helmburg's lawsuit is based in part on the legal theory of strict liability, which holds a party liable for any consequence of an inherently dangerous activity, as well as negligence, claiming the fraternity failed to supervise the party, which led "to stupid and dangerous activities, such as shooting bottle rockets out of one's own anus."

It is unclear how seriously Helmburg and Hughes were hurt in the bottle-rocket blast.

—Source:  blogs.findlaw.com

The new beau of former White House crasher and "Real Housewives of D.C." star Michaele Salahi was served with a $50 million lawsuit on Valentine's Day.

Tareq Salahi filed suit in Warren County (VA) against Journey guitarist Neal Schon alleging that Salahi and estranged wife Michaele were on track to make a fortune together from multiple reality television shows until his wife left him in September for Schon. Salahi is seeking $50 million for emotional distress, conspiracy to defame, interfering with a contract and defamation, including charges that Schon waged an x-rated campaign to humiliate him.  Salahi also wants $450,000 in punitive damages.

Coincidentally, Salahi's lawsuit was filed the same day Journey released a new video starring Schon and Michaele.  According to news reports, a representative for the band called it a Valentine's Day gift to fans.

—Sources:  TMZ.com and WashingtonPost.com