Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Personal injury lawyers are beginning to fight back. Attorneys in New York and California have complained to the Federal Trade Commission, urging that corrective ads be ordered. Two weeks ago, Bridgeport, Conn., Lawyer Theodore Koskoff filed a lawsuit on behalf of four plaintiffs awaiting jury trials, charging the insurance companies with what amounts to jury tampering...
...court that hands down a verdict on the present lawsuit should certainly take this anecdote to heart...
...that an environmental impact statement (which would delay enforcement by at least a year) was required before the rules could be carried out. A federal district court in Fresno, California ruled in their favor. Taylor, a champion of the 160-acre restriction since the 1920's, has dismissed the lawsuit as "another one of their delaying tactics. If you include human beings in the environmental impact, the result is clear," he said recently...
Judge Walter F. Skinner did not dismiss the Indians' lawsuit, but gave the Indians' attorney until January 20 to show a reason why he should not dismiss the case...
George Benway, one of the selectmen of Mashpee, said last month the trial has caused the "economic strangulation of the town and the heightening of personal disagreements." He cited sharp drops in tax revenue and land values because the lawsuit has placed all land title in question...