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Will we be hearing about lawsuits against the Borat movie for the next few years? On the heels of frat boys and transit workers suing the producers of Borat last year, a New York City businessman is suing Twentieth Century Fox for the "unauthorized and blatantly illegal use" of his likeness in the movie. Jeffrey Lemerond is best known to Borat viewers as the New Yorker who runs away from the faux Kazakh reporter played by Sacha Baron Cohen. The Smoking Gun posted the federal lawsuit; here's the explanation of exactly which horrified New Yorker Lemerond is:

Remember Ellen Massey? She's the Mets fan that had her back broken while watching an April game at Shea Stadium. Sitting in the upper deck, Massey had an "oversized" man, who may have been drunk fall on her, breaking one of her vertebra. Now, Massey, who had two steel rods placed in her back, is suing the Mets,, their concessions vendor Aramark, the service union that includes stadium security, and "John Doe," the man that fell on her. The man has not been found yet or come forward.

over the past two years. And not only is he suing them for $1 million, Kemp wants the four to stay at least 100 feet away from his store.

The decision to donate one's body to medicine can be a tough one. Knowing that nerdy little med students will have their fingers on your brain, in your abdomen, or in other unfathomable places is hopefully outweighed by the fact that your carcass will be used to train future physcians and provide valuable organs for transplant instead of rotting in the ground.

New York is implementing a new plan deal with the statute of limitations on sex crimes. Mayor Bloomberg announced The John Doe Indictment Project. A "dedicated team of prosecutors, scientists, and investigators" "will identify the most serious unsolved sex crimes and indict the perpetrators – even before they are apprehended – based upon their DNA profiles."