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ABC Is Gonna Be In Trouble

October 13, 2007


ABC thought they got off easy by releasing a statement apologizing about the racial slur they used on the show ‘Desperate Housewives.”

Turns out that a U.S.-based national organization of Filipinos and Filipino Americans is preparing a $500M class suit against the network.

Filipino Americans believe that their apology was just not enough. One Filipino lawyer said the class suit is needed to protect the reputation and credibility of Filipino doctors.

??“The reputations of doctors are affected, their income is affected and this is a major damage inflicted not only on them but also the universities in the Philippines," said lawyer Ted Laguatan.

This is definitely gonna get dirty! I’m sure it will teach the networks a lesson to not use racial terms so lightly.

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Reader Comments
8:01PM 10/16/07 Cosmo
OK nvm I just saw the link....Are those people serious? If anyone got money for suing on accounts of some dumb joke, than the judge should be shot. What some people will do for cash these days.
7:58PM 10/16/07 Cosmo
What was the joke???
9:04AM 10/15/07 hermi
what was the "slur"? ill probably say GET OVER IT anyway.
8:29PM 10/14/07 jackie
Seriously...GET OVER IT. It's just another reason for a group of people to band and file a lawsuit. ABC will end up settling because it's not worth it to go to court and all of a sudden, a bunch of people are rich! Can someone please make a joke about my ethnic background??? PLEASE!!! I would love to get rich overnight! Oh and by the way, I should start paying more attention to the late night jokes...maybe I can sue Leno.
8:44AM 10/14/07 Amber
Come on people - Its Desperate Housewives!!! No one takes that show seriously!
6:25AM 10/14/07 stefystef
The lawsuit is bullshit. Any reason to sue is the way of the world nowadays. I didn't find the joke racist, just not funny.
9:18PM 10/13/07 marchetta
this is just embarrassing. stuff the stupid law suit, it'll just make Filipinos look cheap. i'm a filipino and i didn't see no harm in teri hatcher's little joke. it's comedy, you're bound to get picked on sooner or later. get over it and this whole law suit is pointless and embarrassing!!! Stupid filipinos
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