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...first time that a cigarette manufacturer could be held liable for the death of a smoker. The court awarded $400,000 to the widowed husband of Rose Cipollone, who died of cancer in 1984 at 58. But last week a federal appeals court in Philadelphia threw out the landmark verdict, ruling that the lower court erred by excluding certain lines of questioning that might have favored the tobacco company...
...Middlesex Superior Court judge ruled this week that President Derek C. Bok does not have to testify in a landmark lawsuit against the Law School until it is determined whether or not the case will be dismissed...
Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas (1985). Focusing on three families from different backgrounds -- one black, one Irish Catholic, one liberal Wasp -- Lukas achieved a thorough and balanced social history of Boston's school- desegregation ordeal that won him his second Pulitzer Prize and became a landmark study of the impact of public policy on private citizens...
Jerome Kern: Show Boat (Angel/EMI, 1988). With a cast that boasted the likes of mezzo Frederica von Stade, the landmark American musical was revealed for what it is: a landmark American opera as well...
...unwarranted bodily intrusions by the state, and that a loving family is the best surrogate to decide what medical course an incompetent relative would choose. In 1983 a presidential medical- ethics commission endorsed the principle of family surrogate decision making, and so have many state courts since the 1976 landmark Karen Ann Quinlan case, in which the New Jersey Supreme Court permitted the Quinlan family to remove her from a respirator. Although who decides and what proof is required have differed, most state courts have found a way to accommodate those who seek to let a death proceed...