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A federal prison inmate is suing Taco Bell over its new menu item, the Doritos Locos Tacos.

But Gary Cole, who's serving a 25-year sentence at a super-max prison in Florence, Colorado, isn't looking to get his hands on some of these ingenious tacos with hard shells made from Nacho Cheese Doritos Chips.

Instead, Cole claims in a federal lawsuit that he is the inventor of the Doritos taco shells, and that someone has stolen his now hugely successful idea, the Dallas Observer reports.

"Does size matter?" That's what a Texas judge pondered in a case about strippers and their "itsy bitsy pasties." (Spoiler alert: The answer is yes, according to the judge.)

In a ruling that's gone viral, Judge Fred Biery affirmed an ordinance in San Antonio, Texas, that requires strippers at clubs that aren't defined as sexually oriented businesses to trade in their itsy bitsy teeny weeny pasties for itsy bitsy teeny weeny bikini tops. It doesn't have to be a yellow polka-dotted one, though.

The decision has perhaps the best opinion title ever: It's formally 35 Bar and Grille v. The City of San Antonio, but the judge's ruling called it "The Case of the Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Bikini Top v. The (More) Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Pastie."

Who knew cat-sitting could be so dangerous? William Baxter of Homer Glen, Illinois, claims he was "viciously attacked, bit and clawed" by a cat he was watching for his neighbor, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

Baxter has filed a lawsuit against the cat's owner, Christine Bobak, claiming significant injuries to his ring finger and left arm. He's seeking a whopping $100,000 in damages.

But wait, it gets weirder: Baxter and Bobak may actually be married.

It's not everyday that you read a "dog runs over man" headline, but that's apparently what happened in Pennsylvania.

Police say a dog was left inside a running car when the animal accidentally knocked the vehicle into gear, reports the York Daily Record.

As the vehicle started to slowly drive away, an unidentified man tried to stop the car before it hit a parked truck. However, the man was unsuccessful in his attempt and ended up getting pinched between the two vehicles.

Arizona's shutdown of a "fish pedicure" spa was lawful, and did not violate the spa owner's constitutional rights, an Arizona court has ruled.

But exactly what are "fish pedicures"? And why did the Arizona Board of Cosmetology find it too fishy for a nail salon in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert?

Just ask Cindy Vong, the manager of La Vie Nails & Spa. Her salon offered a service called "Spa Fish" that would allow tiny fish to nibble off the dead skin on people's feet.

Last year, Universal Studios sued adult film producers Smash Pictures over a porn parody of "Fifty Shades of Grey." Universal claimed that Smash violated its copyright and trademark rights.

Now, Smash has filed a countersuit against Universal, which is basically a lawsuit against someone who sued you.

Smash says that Universal asserted invalid and unenforceable copyrights on the book, reports The Hollywood Reporter. In fact, they claim that Universal paid $5 million for the rights to a book that is already in the public domain -- meaning that anyone in the public can lawfully and freely use it.

Talk about a strange paternity lawsuit. A Louisiana man claims his ex-girlfriend stole his sperm and had a child without his consent.

Layne Hardin, 44, has now filed a lawsuit against Obstetrical and Gynecological Associates after he claims the company gave two vials of his sperm to his ex, Houston's KHOU-TV reports.

The sperm donation was made specifically for another woman, Hardin claims. But somehow, it got into the hands of his ex-girlfriend.

A homeless man is suing his parents for not getting enough love.

Bernard Bey, 32, of Brooklyn, blames his joblessness and homelessness on his parents. Bey alleges he was not loved enough and neglected as a child, reports New York's WNBC-TV. As a result, he finds himself in his current predicament: filing a lawsuit against his parents for being homeless.

Not surprisingly, the lawsuit is self-written. Bey claims that his parents caused him mental anguish and made him feel "unloved and beaten by the world."

Talk about a mean mom. A mother in New York has been banned from posting on her children's Facebook pages. In fact, she can't post about her children at all, on any social media site.

The mother of three, identified only as "Melody M," was posting comments to insult and demean her kids, reports The Huffington Post.

Specifically, she called her 10-year-old son an obscenity beginning with the letter "a." And she even defended her comment in court.

A Kansas City Royals fan's lawsuit over a hot dog in the eye will have another day in court.

John Coomer says that he was hit in the eye by a flying hot dog during a 2009 Royals game. He claims to have suffered a detached retina and other injuries when a foil-wrapped hot dog launched by the Royals mascot Sluggerrr smacked him in the face, reports The Kansas City Star.

At his original trial in 2011, Coomer lost. Jurors found that getting struck in the face by flying hot dogs was an inherent risk of attending a professional baseball game.

So apparently when your team hasn't won in decades, you should expect food projectiles in the stands?