MacHeath's opposition in a hospital negligence suit is a man working for his former father-in-law (Fritz Weaver), who consents to a wager when Mac's case appears lost.
A basketball coach fights to keep his illiterate star eligible, until he hurts his knee---and loses his scholarship; and diet-powder users want to sue after gaining weight.
Mac learns that revealing pictures aren't the only secret in the past of a beauty queen, whose mother objects to his suit against the tabloid that prints them.