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...city of Cambridge sent a legal complaint to several state officials yesterday, taking a major step in formalizing its impending lawsuit against the state, which challenges the legality of recent redistricting that eliminated the traditionally minority 28th representative district...
...complaint was sent to Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72, House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, Acting Governor Jane M. Swift and Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin. If the House-passed redistricting becomes law, the complaint will likely become a lawsuit within a month...
...bombings were sentenced to life in prison without parole. The judge also ordered them to pay $33 million in restitution to the bomb victims, which is unlikely to occur, as the men are not believed to have sufficient assets. Compensation from America is equally remote; the lawsuit--which, ironically, includes double-dipping plaintiffs already receiving aid--has in effect no defendant, as the U.S. takes no responsibility for the results of terrorism...
Representative Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 holds the soon-to-be-lost seat, which has fielded a minority winner for the past 25 years. City councillors are now preparing to file a lawsuit in hopes of regaining the district. And many are turning to Barrios to explain why the 28th was dismantled...
...According to Anwar Ibrahim's lawyer, this essay will be part of a lawsuit that Anwar, the jailed former Deputy Prime Minister, plans to file this week against the Malaysian government for alleged defamation resulting from a state-owned TV broadcast that he says characterized him as an Islamic extremist and a threat to national security...