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State courts ordered Missouri election officials to let 1,233 disputed votes be counted in the 2000 Presidential elections. Among the invalid votes ordered counted by hizzoner: 62 by federal felons, 52 by state felons and at least 14 on behalf of dead people.
During Vice President Gore's visit to Denver in March, 1996, Hamlet "Chips" Barry III, chief of the city's Water Department, decided the South Platte River looked too shallow to serve as a backdrop for Gore's river-front photo opportunity. He decided to boost the flow by releasing 96 million gallons of water, which the Rocky Mountain News reported is worth $59,000 and could have supplied nearly 300 families for a year. "I can defend it," Barry said. "When you have the river being showcased, you want it to look good."
New York State has ordered a Fishkill, NY man to remove a fence around his property because it is "disturbing, harrying and worrying" to a breed of endangered poisonous rattlesnakes.
New York Supreme Court Justice Herman Cahn ruled in May, 1998
that calling a woman a bitch is not defamation. The term, Cahn ruled, is "too imprecise and open to speculation" to allow a plaintiff to win a slander lawsuit.
West Virginia Judge Joseph Trosi was accused of jumping off the bench and biting the nose of defendant Bill Witten, at a bond-reduction hearing in June, 1998, after Witten reportedly made a derogatory remark against the judge.
In Florida, a State trust fund to recover from Hurricane Andrew spent $13,500 to repair art-deco lifeguard shelters on Miami Beach.
In Minnesota, it is an affirmative legal defense to adultry if your spouse is insane.
Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you
passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.
Letter from South Carolina Department of Social Services
The Minnesota Board of Education voted to consider requiring all students to do some "volunteer work" as a prerequisite to high school graduation.
Scott L. Pickard, spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, calls them "ground-mounted confirmatory route markers." You know them as road signs.
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