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The I Am Hurt Corporation lawyer-referral company filed a lawsuit in Edmonton, Alberta, in March against a competing lawyer who advertises his phone number as 428-HURT. In November a New York grand jury indicted three principals in a Maryland distribution company for substituting common fish eggs for high-quality caviar. And in March the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint against four Georgetown University law students, accusing them of recommending an obscure stock on an Internet bulletin board and then exploiting people who bought it.
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A brand-new fire station in Charleston, West Virginia, that cost $1 million to build and the Southampton Street headquarters of the Boston Fire Department were closed in January and November respectively because of fire-code violations. And fires demolished a fire station in Allentown, Florida, in January, a candle factory in Newark, New Jersey, in January, and a fire-extinguisher plant in Detroit in November.
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