"Funniest Home Videos" sued for discriminating against Canadians

from the imdb

Canadian Sues 'America's Funniest Home Videos'

A Canadian man who lost out for the grand prize on America's Funniest
Home Videos is suing the producers because Canadians were not
permitted to vote for the winner. In the video, Jim Nowlan, dressed as
Santa Claus, is seen waking his granddaughter in the middle of the
night. Her reaction, Nowlan told the Canadian Press, was "priceless."
The video brought Nowlan $10,000 when it was originally shown on the
program, and he was flown back to California from his home in Moncton,
NB for the finale. In his lawsuit, Nowlan alleges that the show
"arbitrarily [does] not allow the friends and neighbors of Canadian
contestants [to] vote for them. But if you are an American citizen you
can be voted for by your friends, neighbors and townsmen. This is
discriminative behavior toward Canadian contestants."

-=New and Improved=-...

The prohibition makes sense. Most of the contestants are from
AMERICA. So if the rare Canuck entry gets in the finals you have
an entire country poised to vote for their one entry. The
American entries will not even raise an eyebrow on the American
landscape so they'll be no packing of the vote there, eh.

cloud dreamer...

You know what the end result of this will be. Canadian submissions will
not be permitted period.