Word: generale
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Former Attorney General Scott Harshbarger '64 has been appointed as a Visiting Professor of Law from Practice for the fall semester, the Law School announced yesterday...
Harshbarger said class will cover issues he dealt with as attorney general, including health care fraud, gun and tobacco litigation, and the impact of race and ethnic bias...
...corporate dollars to save it. Today Fort Dupont Ice Arena provides free skating instruction to some 2,500 local kids, with its $500,000 annual budget funded through admission fees, fund raisers and sale of ice time for practicing hockey teams from private schools and local colleges. Says rink general manager Fred Wilson: "The greatest reward we get is seeing the expression on the faces of these kids when they step out on the ice for the first time." It's a step that no child or parent should take for granted...
...jury giveth and the judge taketh away. That oft-repeated scenario is what many legal and business analysts believe will happen to last week?s record-busting $4.9 billion jury verdict awarded against General Motors in Los Angeles. After a 10-week trial, a 12-member panel ordered the company to pay the sum ? $107 million in compensatory damages and $4.8 billion in punitive damages ? to six people who were severely burned when the fuel tank in their Chevrolet Malibu exploded during a rear-end collision. The plaintiffs claimed the car should have been designed with a fuel tank further...
...there?s an emotional connection that tends to drive the price up." But in the end, it is hardball negotiations that usually fix the final price tag, she says. This is precisely what happened in GM?s last major product-liability setback. In February 1993, a Georgia jury slapped General Motors with a $105 million verdict for having designed its C/K pickup trucks with sidesaddle gas tanks, which the plaintiffs claimed made the vehicles prone to explode during side crashes. The Georgia verdict was overturned by an appellate court on a technicality, and shortly before the retrial, the parties reached...