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State sues Palm Beach Gardens timeshare reseller

January 21, 2010

A Palm Beach Gardens-based company engaged in deceptive trade practices involving timeshare resales, the Florida Attorney General’s Office said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Palm Beach County Circuit Court.

 

American Marketing Group LLC used telemarketers to entice customers to buy its timeshare resale services and charged an upfront fee, promising a refund if the timeshare did not sell in 120 days, the lawsuit alleges. Written contracts the company provided contained completely different language than what was agreed on over the telephone.

 

Read Article: The Palm Beach Post

 

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Fort Lauderdale to pay ex-firefighter $50,000

FORT LAUDERDALE – A recently retired firefighter says his hearing was damaged by 27 years of exposure to loud sirens.

City commissioners voted Wednesday night to pay $50,000 to Bruce Wade, to settle his workers’ compensation claim for the hearing damage and another, undisclosed, condition related to his work.

Wade brought up the hearing damage claim last spring, just before he retired.

 

Read Article: Orlando Sentinel

 

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Cuomo sues 4 telemarketers for charities

ALBANY — Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a lawsuit today against four companies that provide professional fundraising and telemarketing services to charitable organizations, claiming the telemarketers intentionally deceived donors and did not disclose they were being paid for their services.

 

Caring People Enterprises, Inc. and Marketing Squad, Inc., both based in Monroe County, were sued, along with Suffolk Productions, Inc. of Suffolk County and Connecticut-based Stage Door Music Productions. The lawsuits aim to shut down the companies and revoke their professional fundraising registration.

 

Read Article: Democrat and Chronicle.Com

 

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Suit Charges Abuses by School Safety Officers

Five public school students and their parents are suing the city, claiming that school safety officers employed by the New York Police Department have wrongfully handcuffed, assaulted and arrested students.

 

A class-action suit filed Wednesday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn by the New York Civil Liberties Union and others states that the officers “engage in a policy and practice of unlawfully seizing and arresting schoolchildren,” in violation of the Fourth Amendment and state law. (See complaint below.)

 

The president of the union that represents school safety officers said he had not yet reviewed the lawsuit, but he added that the overwhelming majority of such officers perform their duties admirably.

 

Read Article: The New York Times

 

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State OKs $1.5 million settlement in case of teens killed by light rail train

The state Board of Public Works approved a $1.5 million settlement Wednesday in the case of two teenagers who were hit and killed by a light rail train in July in Lutherville.

The board – made up of Gov. Martin O’Malley, Comptroller Peter R. Franchot and Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp – did not discuss the payment, which was ratified unanimously with half a dozen other items.

Jarrett Connor Peterson and Kyle Patrick Wankmiller, both 17, were fatally struck July 5 by a northbound train while walking along the tracks that are normally used for southbound operations. The Maryland Transit Administration had switched northbound traffic onto the tracks because of an earlier act of vandalism on the northbound tracks.

 

Read Article: The Baltimore Sun

 

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