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In March, the Los Angeles City Council agreed to pay wrongly-accused Juan Catalan $320,000 to settle his lawsuit over being held in jail for five months for a 2003 murder he could not have committed. Catalan mAin'tained all along that he had been at a Dodgers baseball game at the time of the crime, with his 6-year-old daughter, but police distrusted the alibi. However, Catalan later learned that the HBO TV show "Curb Your Enthusiasm" had been filming at Dodger Stadium that day for an episode, and his lawyer, poring over outtakes of crowd shots, finally found a scene with Catalan and his daughter in the stands.

News That Sounds Like a Joke: A condominium on New York City's Upper East Side filed a $500,000 lawsuit in February against a Subway sandwich shop on the building's first floor, complaining about "nauseating" food odors, but according to a New York Sun reporter, the main strong "smell" present is one likely valued by most clear-nosed, non-New Yorkers: fresh-baked bread.

Southern California filmmaker Dominic Scott Kay filed a creative-control lawsuit in January against the financial backer of his short film, "Saving Angelo," starring family friend Kevin Bacon, that he wanted to enter in independent festivals but was kept from that by the financier. Dominic Scott Kay is 10 years old.

The Royal Bank of Scotland, like other banks in the U.K., is widely criticized for charging onerous fees to customers who make mistakes on their account, such as overdrafts or late payments (levying charges of many times the actual costs of handling the mistakes). Customer Declan Purcell of East London sued the bank over the excessive fees and won a default judgment when the bank failed to respond. Armed with a court order entitling him to the equivalent of $6,600, Purcell led bailiffs into a Royal Bank branch lobby in January to seize four computers, two fax machines and cash.

The Royal Bank of Scotland, like other banks in the UK, is widely criticized for charging onerous fees to customers who make mistakes on their account, such as overdrafts or late payments (levying charges of many times the actual costs of handling the mistakes). Customer Declan Purcell of East London sued the Bank over the fees and won a default judgment when the Bank failed to respond. Armed with a court order entitling him to the equivalent of $6,600, Purcell led bailiffs into a Royal Bank branch lobby in January to seize four computers, two fax machines, and cash.

In January, Joshua Vannoy, 18, filed a lawsuit against the Big Beaver Falls School District near Pittsburgh, Pa., for the disruption to his high school career when he and his family were forced to moved to another school district because Joshua was being taunted too much. His troubles began a year earlier, just before a Denver-Pittsburgh playoff football game when Joshua chose to wear a Broncos jersey to class and was then forced by one teacher to sit on the floor and endure paper wads being thrown at him because he was, according to the teacher, a "stinking Denver fan."