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To: rawhide
This person should be ashamed of filing this lawsuit and should be billed for ALL court costs.

It's obviously a joke and she has absolutely no legal claims to the remuneration.
11 posted on 06/23/2005 10:48:10 AM PDT by politicket (Our Supreme Court just destroyed our land...any Patrick Henry's out there?)
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To: politicket
Don't be so sure about this.

Since on-air radio contests are very strictly regulated by the FCC and perhaps by individual states themselves (hence the lengthy disclaimers you always hear on these stations whenever they run a contest that involves large prizes), my guess is that she's going to win -- and rightfully so.

26 posted on 06/23/2005 11:07:54 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but lord I'm free.)
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To: politicket
This person should be ashamed of filing this lawsuit and should be billed for ALL court costs.

It's obviously a joke and she has absolutely no legal claims to the remuneration.

Using your reasoning, any company can run a promotion, contest, or sweepstakes, and then get out of giving away the actual grand prize by substituting it with a gag or fake prize. What if you won the lottery in your state and when you go down to pick up the $5 million in real money that you thought you had won, they hand you $5 million in Monopoly money and tell you that the lottery was just a joke. I guess you'd just have to laugh it off, right? Or what if you won a contest in which the grand prize was promoted as being a brand new Ferrari. When you go down to pick up your new car, they hand you a Hot Wheels toy instead and tell you that the contest was just a joke. I guess you'd just have to laugh it off, right?

63 posted on 06/23/2005 2:40:41 PM PDT by judgeandjury
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To: politicket

For once, I sympathize with the person doing the suing. I think this stunt is cruel. Radio stations often do give out cash prizes and I understand why the woman thought she'd be getting $100,000. Why is dashing peoples' (reasonable) hopes amusing?


71 posted on 06/23/2005 4:44:52 PM PDT by utahagen
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