Thanks to everyone for the reasonable responses! I don't know why I didn't try looking it up in LexisNexis myself in the first place.
anyway, I just checked LexisNexis (my undergrad university has campus-wide LexisNexis access) and you're right, such a case does indeed exist. I rescind my accusation that the story was false.
I guess I was extremely skeptical because of the errors in the initial "story" and because I have seen emails claiming that Stewart had won a verdict with $2.8 billion dollars in damages.
Thanks for backing up your posts. I'll slip quietly away now.