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Like bullies and illnesses, lawsuits can be ignored, but they won’t go away. Denise Norton learned this valuable lesson the hard way this week when she found out that a lawsuit she has tried to ignore could wind up costing Norton her North Seattle home. 
  
  
  
 Her neighbor Woodrow Thompson filed a lawsuit alleging that the sound of barking from Norton’s dog, Cawper, was intentionally causing him “profound emotional distress.” In his detailed, 36-page complaint, Thompson claimed that the canine’s “raucously, wildly bellowing, howling and explosively barking” was capable of reaching 128 decibels. For context, the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration — the Labor Department agency tasked with enforcing safe working conditions — says a person should not be exposed to a noise of 115 decibels for more than 15 minutes a day. That said, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Noise Meter, Thompson’s claim would mean that Cawper’s bark is louder than an ambulance siren and just slightly softer than a jet engine at takeoff. 
  
  
  
 “In my head, everything was so bogus that he’d been doing, I don’t know why, I just didn’t think it was real or something,” Norton told the local ABC News affiliate, KOMO-TV. That’s why, even when she was served with papers, Norton simply didn’t respond. 
  
  
  
 Unfortunately for Norton, however, the suit was very real, and because she didn’t challenge her neighbor’s claims, Thompson — who has not spoken to the press — won $500,000 by default. 
  
  
  
 “The sheriff comes, puts the papers on the garage and the wall and everything and saying they were going to put the house up for sale,” Norton said. Now she and her family are fighting to reverse the decision — spending a good chunk of their savings on lawyers — before they lose their home. 
  
  
  
 Mike Fandel, a civil attorney unrelated to the case, explained to KOMO-TV that winning a frivolous lawsuit is easy when the other side doesn’t respond. Getting the case dismissed now that a judgment has been made, on the other hand, will be a challenge. 
  
  
  
 “If you think it ought to be dismissed, it will only be dismissed if you ask the court to do it,” Fandel said. Norton acknowledges her mistake and is determined to fix it. 
  
  
  
 “How can you give somebody a half-a-million-dollar lien over a dog barking?” Norton asked, defending Cawper. “He’s just a loving, nice dog.” 
  
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 SEATTLE -- He isn't a prized breed or a champion at the kennel club. He's just plain old Cawper, and he may cost his family more than $500,000. 
  
  
  
 "It's his birthday," said owner Denise Norton. 
  
  
  
 She came to the Problem Solvers for help and exposure for an issue she and her mother Ruth Clark don't understand. 
  
  
  
 "We're flabbergasted by it," Norton said. 
  
  
  
 Their north Seattle neighbor sued them over Cawper and his barking -- and won in court for nearly half a million dollars in the form of a default judgment. 
  
  
  
 In a sprawling 36-page complaint, Norton's neighbor Woodrow Thompson alleged that Cawper is known for "raucously, wildly bellowing, howling and explosively barking" and that he is an outrage, with intentional infliction of emotional distress -- and that his barking caused "profound emotional distress." 
  
  
  
 Thompson's complaint suggests Cawper is capable of barking at 128 decibels through double pane windows. According to Purdue University research, that would mean Cawper is louder than a chainsaw, a clap of thunder and just a hair quieter than the takeoff of a military jet. 
  
  
  
 "This whole thing just gets me wound up," Norton said. 
  
  
  
 Thompson won his case and to civil attorney Mike Fandel, it isn't much of a surprise. Fandel doesn't have any direct connection to Cawper's case, but can explain how Thompson won. 
  
  
  
 "You can bring a frivolous lawsuit and win if the other side doesn't show up," he said. 
  
  
  
 Despite being served with papers, Norton didn't respond and thought it was bunk. 
  
  
  
 "In my head, everything was so bogus that he'd been doing, I don't know why, I just didn't think it was real or something," Norton said. 
  
  
  
 Records show Thompson was given a default judgment because his claims went unchallenged. 
  
  
  
 "If you think it ought to be dismissed, it will only be dismissed if you ask the court to do it," Fandel said. 
  
  
  
 Norton says she takes full responsibility for not responding to the suit, but she's now working to reverse the decision. So began months of finally going to court to try to unravel the judgment after the lien became official. 
  
  
  
 "The Sheriff comes, puts the papers on the garage and the wall and everything and saying they were going to put the house up for sale," Norton said. 
  
  
  
 The Problem Solvers tried to contact Thompson multiple times in person, by phone and by email. Norton has been unnerved after finding a camera pointed directly into her backyard from Thompson's awning. 
  
  
  
 "I don't know if it's fake or real or what, but it makes you want to not even go out in the yard," Norton said. 
  
  
  
 That is part of the evidence she wants to take back to court to fight the judgment. It's on hold now because the family has poured much of its savings into hiring lawyers. 
  
  
  
 "He's just a loving, nice dog," Norton said. 
  
  
  
 A previous judge did not dismiss the case in part of the family's admitted financial troubles in the past. Fandel said it's going to be an uphill battle to get the case dismissed. A court date is pending. |||||
Output:
Cawper is a dog, and dogs like to bark, and he lives among humans, and humans like to sue, and thus we have the short version of how a Seattle family might lose their house. As KOMO reports, Seattle resident Woodrow Thompson filed a $500,000 civil suit against Cawper's owners because he says the dog barks so much that Thompson suffers "profound emotional distress" at his home next door. Owner Denise Norton remembers getting served with the papers, but she ignored them because she didn't think Cawper barked that much, and it all seemed a little "bogus" to her. Big mistake. "You can bring a frivolous lawsuit and win if the other side doesn't show up," a civil attorney not involved with the case tells the station. Thompson won a default judgment, and, much to Norton's surprise, soon "the sheriff comes, puts the papers on the garage and the wall and everything and saying they were going to put the house up for sale." She and her mother are now fighting to get the decision reversed. As Yahoo News observes, "like bullies and illnesses, lawsuits can be ignored, but they won’t go away." (A dog in Croatia is under court orders not to bark at night.)