WHAT A HEEL!: Catty Court Case
Susan Mandel claimed to be allergic to her ex-husband Stanley's 18-month-old male tabby Indie, and was hospitalized in the summer of 2007 with a “severe attack” after their 13- and 16-year-old sons visited him in his apartment, reports New York Law Journal. She did not let them go to their father’s home after that. Her ex-contended that she had no objection to the children visiting him until he stopped paying the mortgage on the home they used to share. Extrapolating case law on second-hand smoke to this novel situation, Acting Supreme Court Justice Hope S. Zimmerman of Nassau County found no “legal or factual basis to exclude the children” from their father's apartment because of his ex-wife’s allergy, and that the problem can be avoided if the children’s mother provide fresh clothes for them in the garage so they can change before entering their home.
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