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No, says Perkins&#8217; lawyer. &#8220;That would be a lot of people&#8217;s knee-jerk reaction in these types of situations.&#8221; The lawyer has filed suit against the amusement park asking unspecified damages, arguing the park should have &#8220;warned&#8221; people not to be outside during a thunderstorm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2003 Stella Awards have been decided. This award is given for the most egregious use of the courts to sue folks for really stupid and\/or abusive reasons, thus increasing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3962,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/06\/gotta_dash.html","url_meta":{"origin":5685,"position":0},"title":"Gotta dash","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Mar-03 7:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Red Herring founder Tony Perkins' new project, the AlwaysOn Network, launched with a conspicuously awkward domain name: alwayson-network.com. 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