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...While of course Kappa Eta [Harvard’s Sigma Chi chapter] would love to have continued its residence at 45 Mt. Auburn, we are glad that the lawsuit is over,” said Sigma Chi President Jared M. Slade...
...Kadeem live mostly on the salary Roger makes as a pressman for a direct-mail firm. Genelle has received some financial aid--rent from the Red Cross, lost wages from Safe Horizon, the victim-assistance group--but she doesn't plan to go for big bucks with a lawsuit. She met with a lawyer, but in the end she decided to apply for the victims' compensation fund. "I'm a Christian now," she explains. "I don't think it's really anybody's fault...
...potential payout--were designed by Congress. But how much each family receives is at Feinberg's discretion. Claimants can appeal Feinberg's decision--to Feinberg or to one of 30 specially appointed hearing examiners--or they can reject it and sue, although Congress has stacked the deck against any lawsuit's succeeding. Congress also neglected to put a cap on how much Feinberg can give the families. (Feinberg expects to award a total of $4 billion to $6 billion.) "The absence of a cap," Feinberg says, "means that I've got to be aware of what is fair not only...
...found one guy who had a chemical weapon sticking out of the ground by his front door," says Bu Ping, vice president of the Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences and an expert on Japan's chemical weapons program in China. "He was using it as a doorstop." A lawsuit has been brought by Chinese who have been injured by discarded chemical weapons decades after the war ended; the case is expected to be heard in a Tokyo court next year...
...billion Amount offered by the Libyan government earlier this year in a settlement of a lawsuit filed by the families of victims of Pan Am Flight...