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Woman Gives Away “Cure for Cancer,” Sues to Get It Back

I love Above the Law’s Lawsuit of the Day. Whether its the guy who wrote off his girlfriend as an employee, or the guy who threw his wiimote into his big screen TV and somehow thinks his retardation is Nintendo’s fault, or even the woman who thought that disliking her office mate’s perfume counted as a “disability,” wacky lawsuits always bring a happy tear to my eye.

In a complaint filed in Connecticut, a patient claims that she wrote down the cure for cancer while being treated at Hartford Hospital. She says that she gave the cure to her doctor for more research, but now she wants that research to stop — at least until she is able to patent her life saving ideas.

Fortunately, ATL reprinted the actual cure, which we reproduce here in the spirit of scientific advancement:

But wait, there’s more.

Erik Even: