When the son was accepted to a college eight years later, the ex-wife argued that the estate should pay his tuition because the money in the estate far exceeded her income. Courts in Illinois, New Hampshire, Virginia, Utah and West Virginia have similar rulings. Retirement plan liable for failure to warn. A retired employee can sue a retirement plan for not warning him that he could never change the beneficiary of his joint and survivor annuity. Shortly after naming his wife as beneficiary, he was divorced and wanted to name his new wife instead.
Involuntary sterilization is a civil rights violation.
A retarded woman who was involuntarily sterilized 20 years ago at the age of 16 can sue her parents, the hospital and doctors under the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, a statute aimed at those who conspire to violate the civil rights of certain classes. Medical releases may be unconscionable. Courts are declining to bind patients to the terms of medical release forms that are commonly used for surgery under the contract doctrine of unconscionability. A woman signed a release and arbitration agreement the day before undergoing an abortion. She suffered a punctured uterus.