Brandy Can't Walk Away From This Lawsuit

Recently I heard Brandy tell V103 in Atlanta, GA that she is only giving her daughter 4 presents for Christmas this year and that we are living in a recession. After Frank Ski sounded like he didn't understand why an Atlantic, Epic recording artist with 5 studio albums (Brandy, Never Say Never, Full Moon, Afrodisiac, Human) and the credits go on and on would say such a statement . . maybe this is why she feels like this: Brandy is facing a second lawsuit in relation to her 2006 car crash which left a woman dead. The singer, full name Brandy Norwood, walked away from the California freeway collision, but Awatef Aboudihaj died from her injuries.

The Afrodisiac hitmaker was never charged with any wrongdoing in the crash, but Aboudihaj’s family are pursuing a $50 million (GBP33.5 million) civil action for wrongful death against the star.

The civil trial is set for April 2009. And now Norwood is facing a second suit from a man who was injured in the accident. Donald Lite filed papers at Los Angeles Superior Court last week (Dec 8th) claiming Norwood and Aboudihaj failed to follow road regulations, resulting in the smash which left him with “serious and permanent injuries”. Lite’s personal injury suit is seeking unspecified damages to cover his hospital costs. Read More!

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"Excuse me sir, can you move for Ms. Daisy!"

So here is the scenario: You and your male friends are out having drinks and the bartender asks you to move for a two white ladies? What do you do? O and did I mention that it is you and your other African American friends, your at a bar filled with other men that could be asked and its August 2008. Well that was the case the other night at Tavern in Phipps...

Former NBA all-star Joe Barry Carroll claims in a lawsuit that he was humiliated and traumatized by the way he was treated in a Buckhead restaurant.

They both ordered drinks and food.
A short time later, a bartender asked them to give up their seats for two white women. There were "several white males" also at the bar, but none of them was asked to move, the suit says.

Carroll and friend politely declined, but the bartender told them it was the Tavern's custom for men to give up their seats at the bar to women, the suit says. Carroll and Shaw were then told repeatedly by two other Tavern employees to give up their seats, while none of the white men at the bar was asked to do so, the suit says.

Carroll and friend, saying they wanted to finish their meal, still declined to leave their seats at the bar. So the Tavern management called a security guard who escorted the two men out of the restaurant, the suit says.

After a hearing, the panel found the Tavern discriminated against the men on the basis of their gender "and, arguably, their race."
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