Heartland Newspapers - 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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