{"id":20917,"date":"2014-07-08T17:52:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T21:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=20917"},"modified":"2014-07-08T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T21:52:03","slug":"fan-sues-after-untimely-nap-brings-unwanted-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=20917","title":{"rendered":"“Fan Sues After Untimely Nap Brings Unwanted Attention”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one is so nuts, or so I think. I mean, you fall asleep during a Yankee-Red Sox game and the camera catches you at it. Um?<\/p>\n

This story actually made both the New York Times and the Daily News \u2212 and probably every other site everywhere in the universe: Fan Sues After Untimely Nap Brings Unwanted Attention – NYTimes.com<\/a>. Perkily, it begins:<\/p>\n

The television cameras at baseball games often catch fans in semi-embarrassing moments, and good sports announcers are adept at poking gentle fun at spectators when the action on the diamond slows down.<\/em><\/p>\n

But one Yankees fan who was filmed<\/a> as he slept soundly through an April 13 game between the Yankees and the Red Sox has sued Major League Baseball, the Yankees and ESPN<\/a>, claiming the images of him asleep and the announcers\u2019 commentary has damaged his reputation.<\/em><\/p>\n

The suit, filed in State Supreme Court in the Bronx last week, seems to be a case of life imitating art, recalling the \u201cSeinfeld\u201d episode in which George Costanza\u2019s reputation is destroyed and his girlfriend breaks up with him after a television camera catches him gluttonously digging into<\/a> an ice cream sundae at the United States Open<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t even know how to categorize this lawsuit. Personal injury? Defamation? Civil mockery? Oh, hey, I’ll just label it anything that comes to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one is so nuts, or so I think. I mean, you fall asleep during a Yankee-Red Sox game and the camera catches you at it. Um? This story actually made both the New York Times and the Daily News … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[38,610,213],"class_list":["post-20917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-defamation","tag-internet-defamation","tag-personal-injury-lawsuits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t