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...labor contracts. The law stipulates that a judge must first rule such a step is necessary for the firm to come out of bankruptcy successfully. Workers hoped that the courts would be sympathetic to their cause, but Wheeling was able to receive the authorization from Bankruptcy Judge Warren W. Bentz. Said Union Attorney Michael Gottesman: "This interpretation of the law could open the floodgates for companies seeking to use the bankruptcy statutes to dodge labor agreements. It's a chilling decision...
SCHOOLTEACHERS LUC AND ISABELLE BENTZ are hardly extravagant. By day, both teach immigrant children in low-income districts of Paris. At night, the couple returns to the working-class suburb of Sarcelles where, across from a busy train station, they live in a three-bedroom apartment with their daughter and son, ages 3 years and 18 months. The flat is cozy but small, typical of the low-rent units constructed back in the 1950s to house French families repatriated from North Africa. Together, the Bentzes take home $3,600 a month, not a lot for a family of four...
...pleaded guilty and was eventually sentenced to 40 years in prison. But Robert and Lois Bentz, the first couple to be tried, were acquitted last September. Under brutal cross-examination, some of the prosecution's young witnesses, including the Bentzes' own sons, 10 and 6, recanted or told confusing stories. One neighbor's eleven-year-old boy, who had claimed he had had oral sex with Robert Bentz, testified that his story...
...Bentz's new scrape with the law has not dampened Leyrer's enthusiasm for the course or for its teacher...
Would Leyrer take Bentz back again? "I'd certainly consider it," said the law official. Bentz's righteously aggrieved comment is what might be expected from an unappreciated teacher...