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  2. William McIntosh (fur trader) - Wikipedia

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    McIntosh (1823) and for his massive real estate holdings on the Wabash River. For a time he was a close friend of William Henry Harrison, but their relationship eventually soured and Harrison sued him for slander. When Harrison won the lawsuit, McIntosh was forced to pay him a large sum of money.

  3. Illinois-Wabash Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1820, the executor of the estate of an investor in the Illinois-Wabash Company filed suit against William McIntosh, one of the largest of the new landowners. The lawsuit claimed that McIntosh had bought land rightfully owned by the Illinois-Wabash Company, based on the earlier purchase from the Indians.

  4. William McIntosh - Wikipedia

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    In 1921, McIntosh's grave was marked by a boulder with a bronze tablet placed by the William McIntosh Chapter, DAR in October 1921. The inscription states: To the Memory and Honor of General William McIntosh The Distinguished and Patriotic Son of Georgia whose devotion was heroic, whose friendship unselfish and whose service was valiant.

  5. Slave descendants are suing to fight zoning changes they say ...

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    The civil lawsuit was filed in McIntosh County Superior Court a month after elected county commissioners voted to double the size of houses allowed in Hogg Hummock, where a few dozen people live ...

  6. Lawsuit filed by Georgia descendants of enslaved people to ...

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    Hogg Hummock landowners accuses McIntosh County officials of intentionally targeting a mostly poor, Black community to benefit wealthy, white land […] The post Lawsuit filed by Georgia ...

  7. McIntosh County denies claims in Sapelo Island lawsuit - AOL

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    Dec. 4—The McIntosh County Commission denies all the allegations in a lawsuit filed by a group of Sapelo Island residents that claims the county discriminated based on race when it passed a new ...

  8. San Francisco Department of Public Works corruption scandal

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    The San Francisco Public Works corruption scandal is an ongoing investigation by federal, state and local prosecutors and investigators into bribery and fraud involving employees and contractors working for San Francisco Public Works (SFPW), and particularly, the Department of Building Inspection (DBI).

  9. South Carolina v. Catawba Indian Tribe, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    McIntosh (1823)], and it is reflected in the Constitution's Indian Commerce Clause. . . . In Oneida II, the Court rejected a suggestion that Indian common-law rights to tribal lands were somehow swallowed up or pre-empted by the Nonintercourse Act; it made clear that the common law still furnishes an independent basis for legal relief. [25]