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cliffster2/19/2010 6:25:40 am PST

re: #257 Bubblehead II

It went to trial. He lost.

N.Y. jury rejects lawsuit over rectal exam man didn’t want

After deliberating for about an hour, a state Supreme Court jury awarded nothing to Brian Persaud, who sued NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for unspecified damages. The panel found the hospital and its emergency room medical staff were not liable.

Might have had to do with him trying to sell PTSD, saying he couldn’t work. If he’d just said, “they held me down and shoved something up my butt against my will”, they would have made him a rich man. He took it too far.