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...Jeffrey Katzenberg, his relentless energy packed into the trim lines of a bantam rooster. Some animation wizard--at Eisner's Disney or Katzenberg's DreamWorks--could build a clever scenario around the adventures of these two critters. But don't expect to see a cartoon version of Katzenberg's lawsuit against Disney anytime soon. A film about that trial, which had Hollywood adrool over a public brawl between two of the town's most potent moguls, would be a drama of rage and rancor. Call it An Uncivil Action...
...Florida lawsuit, representing as many as 500,000 smokers, now enters the damages phase, seeking up to $200 billion. And that's just one state. The verdict could give a boost to more than 60 class actions pending across the U.S. Says Stanford law school professor Robert Rabin: "The industry's fear all along has been catastrophic liability in one of these aggregate cases, where thousands of claims are tied together...
MacLeish said the 1997 lawsuit, in which he and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz argued a case in court for a week before reaching a settlement, involved a handicapped student...
Aside from the lawsuit brought against the University last month by two students seeking their diplomas, four attorneys who have been involved with administrative board cases say they are aware of only one other challenge to make it to trial in recent years...
...There have been cases before, [but] they have generally been settled," says Harvey A. Silverglate, who represents one of the plaintiffs in the cur- rent lawsuit...