Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funny thing happened. Jordan stayed with the game well beyond the novelty stage. He went down to play for the Birmingham (Alabama) Barons of the Class AA Southern League, and though his batting average hovered around .200 for most of the summer, his swing got better. He had big-league speed, and his outfielding wasn't shabby. He could rightfully claim to be a player, if not a particularly good or young one. His presence helped league attendance, of course, but it also helped baseball in general. Hey, if Michael Jordan likes the game enough to stick it out during...
THEY WERE ABOUT TO PICK A JURY to hear a civil suit in rural Alabama the other day, and the home-side lawyer for the plaintiffs assured the jury pool of farmers and sewing-machine operators, stock clerks and bookkeepers that he didn't want "to pry into your life," but said he wanted to know, "Is there anyone here who doesn't believe in filing a lawsuit for any reason? Is there anybody here who simply doesn't believe a jury should award punitive damages in any amount?" It was pretty quiet, and no wonder...
...House of Representatives voted for legal-reform measures as part of a Republican pledge to stanch the tide of frivolous lawsuits and to rein in society's litigious ways, the anecdotal evidence of the reformers' nightmares was nowhere stronger than in Barbour County. Last year juries in Alabama awarded $200 million in punitive damages, some of it in cases where actual loss was minuscule compared with the damages. "Alabama is off the charts," said George Priest, a Yale University professor of law and economics. "Lawsuits used to be about restitution. Now Jere Beasley goes into court and not only gets...
Opposing the legislation was the 60,000-member Association of Trial Lawyers of America, which characterized the reforms as "propped up by distortion and lies." In Alabama, Beasley said, with protection like this his vanquished foes "would have clicked their heels and chirped like larks." Ralph Nader was a particularly vociferous opponent. Nader said only $3 billion annually passes from losers to winners in insured payouts when companies are sued, pointing out that $3 billion is less than a year's profits for many large companies-Ford or GM, say. "Pick any company," said Nader. "There's more in profits...
...League: I honestly think Penn will beat Alabama in its opening round game. If Matt Maloney and Jerome Allen are on it could be a long day for the Crimson Tide...