Headlines and Hearings Logic Puzzle

EASY 4x5

The Daily Beacon newspaper has been in hot water after five different defamation and other legal cases were filed over the past year. Each lawsuit involves a different plaintiff, journalist, article, and outcome. Your task is to work out who sued over what, who wrote it, and how the case ended.

		Article / Topic					Journalist					Outcome
		Espionage	Chef Controversy	Charity Fraud	Council Deals	Business Debt	Riley Shaw	Dana Kim	Benji Carr	Lila Torres	Sam McCreedy	Retraction	Settlement	Withdrawn	No Liability	Confidential
Plaintiff	Harriet Cole
	Marco Vale
	Lexi Hains
	Mina O'Rourke
	Tully Park
Outcome	Retraction
	Settlement
	Withdrawn
	No Liability
	Confidential
Journalist	Riley Shaw
	Dana Kim
	Benji Carr
	Lila Torres
	Sam McCreedy

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Clues

1) The article that made Riley Shaw famous - or infamous - ended with a retraction.

2) Neither Benji Carr nor Lila Torres were involved in the case with Harriet Cole.

3) The five uniques cases are the one involving journalist Sam McCreedy, the one initiated by Harriet Cole, the case that was withdrawn, the so-called "chef controversy", and the one initiated by Lexi Hains.

4) Of the case with the confidential outcome and the one that ended with a settlement, one was related to business debt and the other was about questionable city council deals.

5) Marco Vale had first written to journalist Dana Kim asking for her story to be amended, but when the email was ignored he initiated legal action.

6) Benji Carr is a fierce and passionate journalist who isn't afraid to make waves! The case he was involved in did not have the confidential outcome, nor was it withdrawn.

7) Mina O'Rourke was so mad at the outcome of "No Liability" for her case that she approached a rival newspaper to interview her about what happened. The article was not written by Benji Carr.

8) One plaintiff had their business impacted by an article that claimed they were already in significant debt to multiple businesses and unable to pay their bills when they began work to add a large extension to their building. The plaintiff argued that the amounts owed were unpaid due to disputes, not financial difficulty. The journalist who wrote the article was either Sam McCreedy or Benji Carr.

9) One business person was accused of spying (espionage) for a foreign government in an article that went viral. As a result of the legal proceedings, the newspaper had to publish a retraction of the earlier article.

10) Quite a few readers were shocked to read about multiple city council deals that allegedly benefited one individual. The author of this article was not Sam McCreedy.

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Solved Clues

1) The article that made Riley Shaw famous - or infamous - ended with a retraction.

2) Neither Benji Carr nor Lila Torres were involved in the case with Harriet Cole.

3) The five uniques cases are the one involving journalist Sam McCreedy, the one initiated by Harriet Cole, the case that was withdrawn, the so-called "chef controversy", and the one initiated by Lexi Hains.

4) Of the case with the confidential outcome and the one that ended with a settlement, one was related to business debt and the other was about questionable city council deals.

5) Marco Vale had first written to journalist Dana Kim asking for her story to be amended, but when the email was ignored he initiated legal action.

6) Benji Carr is a fierce and passionate journalist who isn't afraid to make waves! The case he was involved in did not have the confidential outcome, nor was it withdrawn.

7) Mina O'Rourke was so mad at the outcome of "No Liability" for her case that she approached a rival newspaper to interview her about what happened. The article was not written by Benji Carr.

8) One plaintiff had their business impacted by an article that claimed they were already in significant debt to multiple businesses and unable to pay their bills when they began work to add a large extension to their building. The plaintiff argued that the amounts owed were unpaid due to disputes, not financial difficulty. The journalist who wrote the article was either Sam McCreedy or Benji Carr.

9) One business person was accused of spying (espionage) for a foreign government in an article that went viral. As a result of the legal proceedings, the newspaper had to publish a retraction of the earlier article.

10) Quite a few readers were shocked to read about multiple city council deals that allegedly benefited one individual. The author of this article was not Sam McCreedy.

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1. Read the introduction and scan the clues. You can work through the clues in order, but the best approach is to attack the simplest clues first.
2. Mark the clue information in the grid by clicking once in the relevant cell/square for an X (meaning false) and twice for a ✓ tick (true).
3. If you make a mistake on a ticked cell, click again in that cell and it will clear. Or, to clear an X, click twice in that cell to clear.
4. Once you have extracted all information from a clue, click on the clue to move it to the Solved Clues list.
5. Some clues will need to be revisited once you have filled out more information in the grid. Keep working through them logically until you have completed the puzzle.
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