Tennessee lawyer sues Apple because Internet porn ‘destroyed his marriage’

[Tx4obama]

Tennessee lawyer sues Apple because Internet porn ‘destroyed his marriage’

A lawyer in Nashville, Tennessee filed a lawsuit against Apple, Inc. that blames the company for the dissolution of his marriage and the collapse of his mental health. According to CNet.com, Chris Sevier filed suit in Federal District Court earlier this summer because Apple devices do not have a filter that keeps them from playing pornography. The devices purportedly failed to protect Sevier from his porn addiction, so the attorney is suing the company in an effort to have all of its devices equipped with a filter that blocks sexually-themed content.

Sevier, who the blog Above the Law reported was arrested in June for allegedly stalking country star John Rich, wrote in his complaint that he is deeply fond of Apple products.

“The plaintiff loves Apple,” he said, and went on to state that he believes Apple, Inc. is devoted to “the welfare of our Nation’s children, while furthering pro-American values.”

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Sevier said that when a typing error led him to “Fuckbook.com” rather than Facebook, he was overtaken with the eroticism of the images and films he found there and that he became addicted to Internet pornography, causing difficulty in his marriage.

The images of naked young women on the web amounted to “unfair competition” for Sevier’s wife, he said in the complaint, writing, “The Plaintiff began desiring younger more beautiful girls featured in porn videos than his wife, who was no longer 21.”

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Full article here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/13/tennessee-lawyer-sues-apple-because-internet-porn-destroyed-his-marriage/

[FreakinDJ]

1. "Da Puter forced me to watch it"

[NightWatcher]

2. Angry Birds gave me carpal tunnel...I smell a class action suit

[The Magistrate]

3. This Is 'The Onion', Ma'am, Right?

[Tx4obama]

7. No sir, it's real. A copy of the 'Chris Sevier Apple Complaint' is provided on the link in the OP :)

[ZombieHorde]

4. In my mind, this is just like sueing cigerette companies and gun companies for

personal harm.

[Mojorabbit]

11. I agree nt

[tularetom]

5. And lawyers wonder why everybody hates 'em

There is no way in the world a "typing error" led that guy to fuckbook.com when he wanted to go to facebook. It's not even close. You could not do that unless you were trying to.

He got busted and he's trying to slime out of it.

[burnodo]

6. He might have a case....

Given what the numbnut judges decided with respect to that dentist who fired the office help because she was too attractive

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. If internet addictions create tort vulnerability, then Skinner will be hearing from me.

[Kelvin Mace]

9. Un-freakin-believable

Your wife is well rid of you.

[bluedigger]

10. Apple should be ashamed of itself!

I'm outraged.

[Nevernose]

12. How much does one have to jerk off

Before ones's wife leaves him? That's an awful lot of touching oneself.

[Tanuki]

13. Please, let's recognize that this man is known to be mentally ill

and refrain from piling on. He lost his Tennessee law license in 2011 due to his mental illness, and this is not the first odd and irrational thing that he has done.
http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/city-news/man-arrested-charged-stalking-john-rich

[Lex]

14. Just wait until I sue for no LOLcats filter. nt