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A Marin County, Calif., woman is being sued by her bank for refusing to pay more than $70,000 in charges on her credit card. Cynthia Haines ran up the bill by gambling on the Internet. She refuses to pay and has sued Visa, MasterCard and her bank, claiming that because gambling is illegal in California, the credit companies should not have allowed the charges to go through. Meanwhile, Michael Copp of Sheffield, Ohio, has been arrested and charged with felony theft of his mother’s credit card after he used it to pay the $2,496 fee for his girlfriend’s breast enlargement surgery. (UPI, AP) ...To be referred to in court as the “Copp a feel” case.