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Show Iron County landfill report opens old sores once again & The case concerning a Cedar City man who has allegedly been selling listings of MX-related jobs through deception and misrepresentation was settled out of court this week. Jeffrey Orritt, assistant attorney general, said that Lee Ball, operator of Cedar City MO Distributors, had agreed to discontinue the practices in question. Orritt said that he had sent Ball a stipulation agreement Tuesday, which Ball must sign to make the deal legal. The agreement, said Orritt, made the conditions of a previous temporary restraining order permanently binding. The order, issued by Fifth District Court Judge J. Harlan Burns, said that Ball must discontinue advertising or soliciting MX-related job opportunities and making any untrue statements in the course of such, until a trial could take place. The out-of-court agreement, of course, pre-empted any trial action. Ball was accused of violating two sections of the Utah Consumer Sales Practices Act which prohibit deception or misrepresentation in advertising. The situation came to a head when an ad allegedly placed in the "Salt Lake Tribune" by Ball promising a list of contractors who would be hiring for MX-related jobs was brought to the attention of Ralph Starr, Four County MX Policy Board coordinator. Starr complained to the Attorney General's office, and the suit was filed. "What is expressed and implied by that letter is that, in fact, high paying jobs for semi-skilled and unskilled workers will be immediately available and a certain percentage of workers will be hired from the State of Utah," said the complaint signed against Ball. According to Starr the jobs never have been available, and the list of contractors sent to respondents to the ad was available from his otlice. free. |