"Restaurant" Reneges On $2 Million Settlement

The Hooters-knockoff restaurant Hawaiian Tropic Zone has backed out of a settlement with five former employees, who allegations against general manager Anthony Rakis include rape, sexual harassment, and turning the place into a "sexual playground" for his "boyhood fantasies." [Gothamist]

Shaniya Davis' Aunt Speaks Out • Teacher Sues After Slipping On Condoms

• Carey Lockhart-Davis, aunt of murdered North Carolina 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, is furious that the alleged rapist and murderer is being treated decently in prison. She told the Early Show: More »

But...They Never Said You Couldn't Still Eat Chili Dogs!

Dannon has settled a suspicious-sounding false-advertising class-action lawsuit, reimbursing customers who, apparently, still had digestive troubles after eating Activia, to the tune of $35 mil. Dannon denies wrongdoing. After all, they implied men shouldn't eat it. [LA Times]

Madonna's Visit To Disaster Victims Brought To You By Dior!

• New lows in celebrity sartorial publicity: Dior would like everyone to know that Madonna was wearing its sunglasses when she visited the victims of her stage collapse in Marseille, which killed two workers and left eight injured. [WWD]

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Whiny Dude Gives Lawyers A Bad Name

Following in the footsteps of asshat extraordinaire Roy Den Hollander is this charming guy, Alfred G. Rava, an attorney who sued the Oakland A's over his right to a free (women's) sun hat. More »

Speidi Suits Up For Swim Season; "The Body" Goes To Babeland

• In your daily back-to-bed moment of despair for Western culture, Heidi Montag has become a bathing suit designer. [E! Online]
• Elle MacPherson reportedly shops at Toys in Babeland. Unless there's some other "toy" store near Schiller's. [FWD]

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Better To Die Alone Than With A Non-Legal Partner, Right? Right!

When Janice Langbehn's partner of 18 years suffered an aneurysm, Langbehn and their children were not allowed to visit her in the hospital. Now the case is the subject of a lawsuit with major implications. More »

Two Nebbishes Enter, One Leaves ($5 Million Richer)

Woody Allen's lawsuit against American Apparel, which used his picture on billboards in New York and L.A. without authorization, was settled at the eleventh hour. The clothier will pay Allen $5 million. [LA Times]

Dov Charney Co-Opted Woody Allen Image Out Of Adoration

An American Apparel internal memo leaked yesterday — and it offers a totally different take on the t-shirt company's contretemps with the director Woody Allen than that voiced in the media by the company lawyers. More »

Poet, Writer, Anarchist Brings Recipes To Twitter; Parodist-Stalker Brings The Pain

Twitter is rocking the food world to its very core. More »

Suited Up

A 17-year-old Indiana student is suing her school for the right to wear a tuxedo to her senior prom. Says her lawyer, dresses "indicate a sexual identity that is not her own." [UPI]

Can This Model Really Sue Someone For Calling Her A Ho?

Look, we wouldn't fancy being called "Horsey Face," "ho," "skank bitch," "#1 skanky superstar," "old hag," and "psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her age, skank," either. But grounds for a lawsuit? More »