Lawsuit Abuse

  • Dog-Faced

    Maureen Martin
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    February 01, 2013
    If you go to a baseball game, you assume the risk of getting struck by a baseball – but you don’t assume the risk of getting hit with a hot dog.

  • A Growing Problem

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    January 30, 2013
    A Florida couple is being threatened with prosecution for violating the Orlando city code by planting a 25-by-25-foot garden in their front yard.

  • No Kidding Her

    Maureen Martin
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    January 28, 2013
    An Ohio teacher is suing her school district for discrimination after they reassigned her from a high school to a junior high school and pressed her to resign.

  • Gold Finger

    Maureen Martin
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    January 25, 2013
    An upstate New York man “gave the finger” to a cop using a radar gun and now may get paid for it.

  • Transparent Fraud

    Maureen Martin
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    January 23, 2013
    A jury award in West Virginia will require two lawyers and a doctor to pay CSX Rail $429,240 for racketeering and fraud in the reading of x-rays in asbestos cases.

  • Beer Blast

    Maureen Martin
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    January 21, 2013
    A group of prison inmates in Idaho is suing major beer companies, alleging the brewers are responsible for their lives of crime.

  • Child Exploitation

    Maureen Martin
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    January 18, 2013
    It didn’t take long for trial lawyers to begin trying to profit from the Newtown massacre.

  • The Candy Man Can’t

    Maureen Martin
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    January 15, 2013
    A soda fountain in St. Paul may be fined $500 by city inspectors for selling candy cigarettes.

  • A Christmas Greeting

    Maureen Martin
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    January 13, 2013
    A Louisiana woman has the constitutional right to hang Christmas lights on her house in a pattern giving her neighbors the middle finger.

  • Attractive Nuisance

    Maureen Martin
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    January 11, 2013
    It was legal for a Fort Dodge dentist to fire his long-time female dental assistant because of his “irresistible attraction” to her, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled recently.
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