Maureen Martin

Maureen Martin

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

  • Sure Plays a Mean Pinball

    Maureen Martin
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    October 17, 2011
    A self-described “pinball wizard” has filed a total of 11 complaints against the Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas stemming from a single incident at the pinball

  • Please Remit. Love, Mom

    Maureen Martin
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    October 12, 2011
    A British Columbia man is being sued for support by the mother who abandoned him as a teenager. The suit has dragged on for 11 years.

  • Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls

    Maureen Martin
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    October 10, 2011
    A Nebraska school has rejected a Parent-Teacher Organization’s offer to donate and install a small waterfall as part of new landscaping at the school.

  • To Serve (Food and Drinks) and Protect (from Attacks by Fake Ninjas)

    Maureen Martin
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    October 07, 2011
    A Long Island catering hall has no duty to protect patrons from a surprise attack at a Halloween party by a man dressed as a ninja.

  • Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby ... Or Is It?

    Maureen Martin
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    October 05, 2011
    A Brooklyn court has tossed out a case against a Long Island hospital where nurses temporarily and accidently switched newborn babies.

  • Stop Me Before I Drink More!

    Maureen Martin
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    October 03, 2011
    An Idaho college student and her parents are suing a University of Idaho fraternity, her sorority, university officials, and others for failing to prevent her fro

  • Unsafe at Any Speed

    Maureen Martin
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    September 30, 2011
    Police in Tennessee have warned the mother of a ten-year-old daughter the mother will face child neglect charges if she allows her daughter to continue to ride he

  • Nuts to You

    Maureen Martin
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    September 27, 2011
    A Pennsylvania judge who has handed out thousands of hollowed-out acorns to people in or around his courtroom, each stuffed with an unwrapped condom, will not be

  • Porn Loser

    Maureen Martin
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    September 21, 2011
    An inmate in the Macomb County jail (near Detroit) is suing the state for imposing cruel and unusual punishment because jail rules don’t allow him to have pornogr

  • Chain-Link Gang

    Maureen Martin
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    September 19, 2011
    City officials in Alexandria, Virginia ordered a homeowner who illegally removed a chain-link fence in her front yard to put it back because it’s historic.

  • Reward and Punishment--Simultaneously

    Maureen Martin
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    September 16, 2011
    Under Obamacare, one federal agency will be rewarding health care providers if they merge to form networks to coordinate patient care.

  • Fourth Circuit's Factual Error Throws Obamacare Decision in Doubt

    Maureen Martin
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    September 14, 2011
    In a recent ruling that the Commonwealth of Virginia lacks standing to challenge the individual mandate provision of Obamacare, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

  • They Snooze, Clients Lose

    Maureen Martin
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    September 05, 2011
    In a classic case of lawyers protecting their own, a federal circuit court of appeals ruled recently a lawyer who takes a catnap in court isn’t “ineffective” unle

  • Rookie Mistake

    Maureen Martin
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    September 02, 2011
    “After conquering Silicon Valley” during a 15-year high-tech career, a former software engineer went to law school and took a job with a big New York City firm.

  • Cooler Runnings

    Maureen Martin
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    August 31, 2011
    An Australian court had to grapple with a weighty legal issue recently: Is a homemade motorized beer cooler a “motor vehicle?”

  • Organization Ban

    Maureen Martin
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    August 29, 2011
    The Gould, Arkansas city council has banned a citizens group from “doing business” there and has further decreed “no new organizations shall be allowed to exist i

  • Olympic Spirit

    Maureen Martin
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    August 26, 2011
    The Redneck Olympics was held early this month in Hebron, Maine for the 15th year in a row. But there may not be one next year.

  • Case Dismissed--Gladly

    Maureen Martin
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    August 24, 2011
    A Kentucky circuit court judge was pretty happy when a case set to go to trial before him settled. How happy? Here’s what the judge wrote:

  • Bat Decision

    Maureen Martin
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    August 22, 2011
    Warning labels are not enough, according to the Montana Supreme Court, which upheld a verdict by a pitcher against a manufacturer of aluminum baseball bats.

  • Government Bird Brains

    Maureen Martin
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    August 17, 2011
    A Fredericksburg, Virginia mother faced a fine of $535 and up to a year in prison after her daughter rescued an orphaned woodpecker about to be devoured by the fa
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