Sue and James Schofield, from Rhoswiel near Oswestry, said they found out after checking the result on a mobile phone app after a meal with friends.

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If Obama wins and Democrats solidify their majority in Congress, the new president will be handed a slew of bills designed to expand the ways lawyers can sue, said James Copland, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

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Sue Staunton, business adviser at James Cowper accountants in Oxford, estimates the cost of the flooding in Oxfordshire alone could run in to "tens of millions of pounds", based on the experience of the 2007 floods.

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By the time the law firm got around to filing, the one-year statute of limitations had expired, says James Rosen, the attorney Blanks hired to sue his former lawyers.

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Victims and their families can sue criminals for restitution (see: Simpson, Orenthal James), but so far Blagojevich has been convicted only of lying to the feds, and a retrial really does not seem likely.

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But Christina Michalos, representing Mrs Thompson said it was "like a cross between Catch 22 and 1984" that Mr James was using public money to counter-sue Mrs Thompson for her criticism of the fund that allowed him to do it.

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