Maureen Martin

Maureen Martin

Maureen Martin passed away on February 5, 2013. The Heartland Institute's page in tribute to her... (read full bio)

  • Animal Rights Wrongs

    Maureen Martin
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    February 06, 2013
    Ten years ago the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) sued Ringling Bros.–Barnum & Bailey circus for alleged mistreatment of its elephants.

  • Jail Money

    Maureen Martin
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    February 04, 2013
    Lawsuits filed by inmates in Rikers Island, New York City’s main jail – most of them frivolous – have cost the city more than $111 million over the past five years.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • ‘A Bird-Brained Idea’

    Maureen Martin
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    January 09, 2013
    As if Chicago police didn’t have enough to do.

  • High-Heeled Sneaker

    Maureen Martin
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    January 07, 2013
    It’s not unusual for persons claiming workers’ compensation to be caught faking their injuries, but a recent California case has an unusual twist.

  • Personal Irresponsibility

    Maureen Martin
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    January 04, 2013
    A Wisconsin man who can’t pay almost $100,000 in overdue child support and interest for the nine children he fathered has been sentenced to probation and ordered not to have any more kids unt

  • Property Casualty

    Maureen Martin
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    December 28, 2012
    Two years ago, the town of Harvey Cedars in New Jersey had a two-story sand dune constructed in front of 190 ocean-front homes to protect them from storms. The U.S.

  • Beer Battle

    Maureen Martin
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    December 26, 2012
    It’s the real-world equivalent of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, the fictional lawsuit Charles Dickens wrote about in Bleak House.

  • Gaming the System

    Maureen Martin
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    December 20, 2012
    A Buffalo Bills fan is suing the football team, alleging it sent him too many text messages.

  • Skin Deep

    Maureen Martin
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    December 16, 2012
    A Chinese man sued his wife for divorce, alleging she tricked him into marrying her by disguising her ugliness with plastic surgery.

  • Man’s Inhumanity to Maniac

    Maureen Martin
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    December 14, 2012
    A Norwegian man imprisoned for the massacre of 77 people last year has hired a lawyer to complain his prison conditions are “inhumane.”

  • Men Not Working

    Maureen Martin
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    December 13, 2012
    An Ohio community college forced a construction crew to stop working until its “Men Working” signs were removed because they violated the college’s diversity requirements.
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