The birds of North America apparently are fed up with being flung at evil pigs in the game “Angry Birds” and are fighting back.

Just recently a man filed a lawsuit against the Mitsubishi Motors North America plant in Normal after geese knocked him down and injured his right shoulder.

The man was working for a contractor at the plant and he claims in his lawsuit that he is in “great pain and anguish, both in mind and body, and will in the future continue to suffer.” The lawsuit claims Mitsubishi failed to protect him from the geese.

Today's post comes to us from the state of Louisiana, where the issue of legacy lawsuits is currently brewing in teh Senate.  Melissa Landry is executive director of Louisiana Lawsuit Abuse Watch, a non-partisan grassroots legal watchdog group dedicated to improving the state’s legal environment.

An investigative branch of the conservative national think tank the Heritage Foundation issued a damaging report this week – which was also picked up on Washington Times 24/7 – putting the national spotlight back on Louisiana’s legacy lawsuit crisis.

Another outrageous lawsuit comes to us today via the blogosphere.

According to legal blog Lowering the Bar, a Ventura Country individual is filing a lawsuit against the Rotary Club of Simi Sunrise. The individual claims they were at the Cajun Creole Music festival when the gust of wind uprooted the tent they were standing next to.

Plaintiff alleges that they were carried into the air in “excess of 10 feet when she lost her grip on the tent and fell.”

While we haven’t stopped seeing ridiculous lawsuits like this and this, it seems most of the recent legal news involves disputes over patents. 

What is patent lawsuit abuse?  Groups go around buying patents and then suing large companies for patent violation.  Even though these are businesses who create products and employ individuals, they are being targeted by groups who purely abuse the legal system.  

In California, ADA lawsuit abuse is a serious problem, forcing small businesses to close doors while filling the pockets of a few trial lawyers.  

ABC News 10 reports a story where “Alfredo Garcia is disabled and the illegal immigrant has filed more than 600 lawsuits against Southern California businesses for violating the American with Disabilities Act.”  The sad truth is that this is just one example of the prevalent fraudulent activity in California. 

In 2007, Cook County paid a settlement of more than $4,000 to an injured county employee who claimed the injury was the result of tripping on a banana peel.

That’s right a banana peel.

Slip and fall claims such as the one in 2007 in Cook County are becoming more commonplace these days, according to a report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau. They reviewed slip-and-fall questionable claims referred during 2010 and 2011 and they found referrals went from 1,944 in 2010 to 2,168 in 2011 – a 12 percent increase. 

While it has been reported that the number of malpractice suits in Pennsylvania has dropped off from 2011’s increase, not all states are quite so lucky…. 

Tort reformers have been turning up all over the internet recently. We took the liberty of rounding up some of the standouts. You may recognize a few friends of Project Lawsuit Abuse in there. Here are some of the newsmakers from around the country:

Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch (I-LAW), Marion Mayor Robert Butler, Herrin Mayor Vic Ritter, Regional Superintendent of Schools Matt Donkin and several other community leaders joined together on May 1st to host a public forum in Marion to discuss the adverse impact of lawsuit abuse on job creation, municipal services and schools.

The forum was the first stop in Illinois of the national “Create Jobs, Not Lawsuits” public awareness tour that is taking place in states all across the country throughout 2012.  Southern Illinois was chosen for the first stop in Illinois due to the region’s long history as a hotbed for frivolous litigation.   

Trying to enact tort reform in your state?  Look for your proof in this week’s ranking of the Best and Worst States for Business from Chief Executive.  These rankings come straight from 650 CEO’s, who graded the states they do business in for a variety of pro-growth measurements.