Word: hinkley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whose most famous case?a class-action suit against Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for ground contamination fought with self-trained legal assistant Erin Brockovich?was made into a 2000 film starring Julia Roberts; of complications from diabetes; in Los Angeles. Nearly bankrupted by his defense of 648 residents of Hinkley, California, who said PG&E tanks caused high incidences of cancer and other illnesses, Masry's work led to a landmark $333 million settlement and a lasting friendship with his similarly brassy aide. "No one has called me more names than Erin Brockovich and I've called her everything...
...California, was honored with the Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) most prestigious award yesterday, angering a lawyers’ group and others at the University who discredit the science behind Brockovich-Ellis’ activism.Brockovich-Ellis was a clerk at a law firm in Hinkley, Calif. when her investigations revealed that hundreds of people in a single neighborhood had been exposed to water contaminated with chromium-6, dumped there by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Brockovich convinced her firm to bring action against the company, resulting in 1996 in a $330 million settlement, the largest-ever...
...CLARK, former dean of Harvard Business School, on quitting that post to run Brigham Young University-Idaho at the request of Gordon Hinkley, who heads the Mormon Church...
Clark, a devout Mormon who has served as dean for 10 years, abruptly announced his decision to resign on June 6, less than two weeks after he was asked by Gordon B. Hinkley, the president of the Mormon Church, to take the helm at BYU-Idaho...
...Office for Chemistry and Society, explains why. The difference, he says, "is that ingested chromium-6 encounters hydrochloric acid in the stomach's gastric juices, and is converted to chromium-3, which is innocuous." Anyway, he points out, "no single toxin causes the wide array of conditions that afflict Hinkley residents...