An interesting lawsuit was recently filed by a former Cornell employee who claims he was fired for feeding feral cats while working at a Cornell barn. It's a curious little story, and as the plaintiff freely admits, a long-shot:
A cat-loving former farmhand at Cornell University has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the Ivy League school for firing him - because he refused to stop feeding a pack of feral felines that hung around the dairy barn. John Beck claims he cared for about 20 cats at the 2,600-acre Animal Science Teaching and Research Center in upstate Harford while working a weekend graveyard shift for about nine months prior to his firing in August 2003. It was at that time, Beck claims, that he rebuffed repeated orders from the farm's supervisor to stop feeding the cats - using his own money to buy no-name kitty kibble and even once slipping them leftover pizza crusts he found in the center lunchroom.
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