7. Beer lover Richard Overton slapped brewer Anheuser-Busch with a $10,000 lawsuit against, claiming false advertising and failure to deliver on its promises. No matter how much Bud Light Richard drank, the scenes depicted in the commercials of young friends and women with tiny bikinis frolicking on beaches never materialized. So in 1991 he sued, alleging emotional distress brought on by Anheuser-Busch's failure to provide "unrestricted merriment." Initially a trial court threw out the case, but Overton inexplicably won after taking his case to the Michigan Court of Appeals.
