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...Novartis) and Gallo Winery. If the cascade of litigation continues, according to a recent Tillinghast-Towers Perrin study, its financial toll could reach $200 billion, more than the damage attributed to the Enron debacle. "The liability--both projected and actual--is far in excess of Enron," says David Austern, general counsel for the Manville Trust, which was created from bankrupt asbestos maker Johns-Manville in 1988 to administer claims against the company. "Yet there seems to be very little congressional interest in this subject...
...number of legal experts are worried about prospective abuses of the law. "The message scares me," said David Austern, director of education at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. "It says that potential victims can use deadly force whenever they want." New York City officials hastened to reject that view. "Some will take this as a signal that vigilantes are acceptable, but we will not permit that," said Mayor Ed Koch. Black Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward grimly added, "No one has a license to go out and hunt anyone -- black, green, yellow or whatever...
...District of Columbia Bar Association has hired three law students to track and catalogue Watergate developments in preparation for any formal actions, but thus far no complaints have been filed against anyone. David Austern, counsel for the association's disciplinary board, observes, "It's like an assassination of the King of England. Nobody files a complaint; everybody assumes the authorities know about...
Henry Melvin Hart Jr. 2L, of Spokane, Washington, was elected at a meeting last night to the presidency of the Law Review for the coming year, to succeed Herman Thomas Austern 3L as recipient of the Law School's highest honor. At the same time Maynard Joy Toll, of Glendale, California, a graduate of the University of California in 1927, was elected treasurer...
...contents of the February issue of the Harvard Law Review, which will appear shortly, were announced yesterday by H. T. Austern 3L, president of the board of the Law School journal. The leading article is by Professor E. M. Morgan '02, of the Law School. It is entitled "The Rationale of Vicarious Admissions" and is concerned with hearsay, the use of evidence, and a critique of evidential rules in criminal and conspiracy cases...