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Haroz said Wednesday the case "still sits in limbo." He said he has no idea why it has been delayed for so long. Federal court clerks said recently there is a backlog of cases and that they could not predict when the Largey suit would come up for trial...
...center-left coalition could be organized under another Premier. At the same time, Fiat, the flywheel of Italy's long-running economic miracle, ordered a three-day week for 71,000 auto workers-one-third of its entire staff-because the giant auto firm had a backlog of 300,000 unsold cars...
Italian authorities, who unblinkingly insist that 95% of all mail is delivered on time, nonetheless admit that there is a daily backlog of 5,000 tons of mail; newspapers charge that it is more like 12,000 tons. Whatever the figure, the backlog is so huge that cynics have suggested that the mountain of undelivered mail be junked and that the post office start all over again. Someone in the system seems to agree: in June, Italian police discovered that 200 tons of undelivered mail had been sold to a Bergamo processing plant for recycling...
...medical expenses and lost wages by his own insurance company, regardless of who caused the accident. In return, the motorist gives up his right to sue the negligent driver for further compensation or immeasurable factors like "pain and suffering" - unless his injuries are much greater than usual. The backlog of auto cases clogging courts is cut and, backers hope, so are insurance premiums...
...there are still complaints about the quality of its justice, but most of them are of a totally different kind. And they come from the opposite side of the color line. It took a crash program begun in 1969 and as many as 40 visiting judges to cut the backlog down to manageable proportions. Now the number of permanent judges has been increased to 20. And eight of them, including one woman, are black...