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In July a California court of appeals overruled an arbitration panel that awarded $88.5 million in taxpayer funds–about $8,800 an hour–to attorneys who successfully challenged the constitutionality of a state law….And that same month David L. Brite of California told the St. Petersburg Times that the Florida lawyer he engaged to find his stepgrandmother’s will did only a few hours’ work but claimed 25 percent of the estate, which is valued at $1.4 million.
Since April residents of four cities have confronted the drivers of ice cream trucks over excessive noise, late hours on residential routes, and the repetitious playing of “Turkey in the Straw,” “(I Am) The Yankee Doodle Boy,” and “When the Saints Go Marching In.”…And in London, about 50 ice-cream-truck drivers blocked a downtown street, blaring their music, to protest the city’s clampdown on their licenses.
Since 1999 the health-care plan of Niagara County, New York, has reimbursed employees more than $1.25 million for face peels, breast implants, and liposuction; this year taxpayers finally realized what was going on after property taxes shot up by 20 percent….And San Francisco elections supervisor Tammy Haygood, fired in April for cost overruns and irregularities, continues to fight for her job so that her husband can maintain his transsexual treatment under the city government’s liberal employee health-care plan.
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