This week an interior designer lost a lawsuit where the designer was
sued for advertising the client's name in order to entice potential
customers.  I read this on the "ticker" on CNN.  I believe the client
won damages of $415,000.  I want to be able to read the entire story. 
Please help.

I believe I've found the story that CNN's ticker referred to. For
copyright reasons, I'm posting only a brief excerpt, but you can read
the entire story by clicking the link below:

"Man to Pay for Using Fielder's Name
Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - An interior decorator who dropped the name of
former major leaguer Cecil Fielder without his permission was ordered
Friday to pay the three-time All-Star $415,000.

A jury ordered Robert Weinstein to pay civil damages for mentioning
Fielder as a client in news articles and using his name in
advertisements for his interior design firm..."

Sarasota Herald-Tribune
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030215&Category=APS&ArtNo=302150521&Ref=AR

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Here are two other write-ups of the same story:

Chicago Sun-Times
http://www.suntimes.com/output/quickhits/cst-spt-1hit20.html

(Scroll down the page to the headline "Fielder socks it to interior
decorator.")

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Sports Illustrated/CNN
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/news/2003/02/14/roundup_ap/

(Scroll down the page to the headline "Man ordered to pay for dropping
Fielder's name.")

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In order to locate this information, I first performed searches at
CNN.com and at FoxNews.com. I had no success, so I tried several
different combinations of keywords on the Google News search engine.
The keywords that turned up links to the story were "interior" and
"client."

Google News: "interior" + "client" 
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&scoring=d&q=interior+client

I hope this is what you need. If anything I've said is unclear or
incomplete, please request clarification before rating my answer, and
I'll gladly offer further assistance.

Best wishes,
pinkfreud

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Request for Answer Clarification by interiordesigner-ga on 22 Feb 2003 09:44 PST

PinkFreud I'm throughly impressed.  I've worked on this for hours and
got nothing.  I would give you a prefect rating anyway but the first
link -Sarasota Times - does not work.

Thank you for your great work!

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Clarification of Answer by pinkfreud-ga on 22 Feb 2003 10:57 PST

What a puzzlement. The Sarasota link was working yesterday, but now I
can't get it to work either.

These sites have the same story, in the same words (since this was
distributed by Associated Press, identical text appears in many
locations):

Kansas City
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/5186930.htm

Duluth
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/sports/5186930.htm

Bay Area
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/5186930.htm

If none of the above sites are accessible, please let me know. As a
last resort, I can upload the story temporarily to my own server for
you.

~pinkfreud

You did an exc3llent job finding the answer to my question. You got me
what I needed to know.  I would certainly use your service again.

Thank you very much for the five-star rating and the tip!

~pinkfreud