Seem to recognize the bulletin "we mourn a good friend today..." from somewhere - PJ O'Rourke possibly. Whatever its origin, whatever the author's politics, some of the soundbites that make up its too-clever, thrice-chewed content are too-ready summaries of cases that too many people think they know about and really don't... like the Woman Sues McDonalds for Spilled Coffee. The facts of that case (not at all the first of its kind to be brought against the restaurant- a fact the jurors took into account, by the way, along with several others) are covered in quite a few sources (see
this Wikipedia page for something more detailed...)
There for a start...