AT&T Stadium Suite Suit, Southern Dallas Home Scam, Child Predator Arrested: Your Friday Evening Roundup

Good evening. Here are some stories you may have missed today.Do you want to get this roundup via email? Sign up for our newsletters here.Suite lease at AT&T Stadium turns to bitter legal fight for Plano sports fanA longtime Plano football fan is gearing up for a fight with the Dallas Cowboys, after he says he was pressured into signing an expensive lease for a suite at AT&T stadium, then was sued when he stopped paying.He's not the only fan to face off with the Cowboys' legal team over stadium suites.Tarrant County civil court records examined by The Dallas Morning News show that Cowboys Stadium LP has gone to court more than 40 times -- beginning in the weeks after the cavernous "Jerry World" opened in Arlington until June of this year -- after holders of its luxury suites declined to pay up.In more than a dozen cases, attorneys for the $1.2 billion stadium won seven-figure court judgments when the suite holders, who paid up to $450,000 annually, put up little to no defense.Feb. 2010: The Dallas Cowboys sue 10 businesses, saying they stopped paying luxury-suite leases for Arlington stadium.Employment: The U.S. shed 33,000 jobs in September because of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, which closed thousands of businesses in Texas and Florida and forced widespread evacuations.  Continue reading...

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