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...smokers. The settlement came just days before Moore was to set to take the cigarette industry to trial in Mississippi. The deal is separate from the $368.5 billion national settlement reached with the industry July 20, in which Moore acted as lead negotiator for several states. In his original lawsuit, filed in 1994, Moore sought $940 million for tax funds spend on smoking-related illnesses. At the time, the idea of a state suing the industry for health costs struck many as a bit of a reach. Having reeled in the national settlement, Moore clearly had the attention...
...lawsuit alleges that discrimination on the basis of national origin led to Abramian's 1993 termination and seeks damages. Abramian is originally from Russia...
Carlow, whom the lawsuit alleges was the instigator of a fight with Abramian which led to Abramian's termination, denied he and Dowling had ever colluded to damage Abramian's career...
Carlow also acknowledged that a document which he filed earlier in the lawsuit proceedings was inaccurate...
Companies, meanwhile, stand to lose not just the costs of a lawsuit but also their sales to minority consumers and access to the deepest possible labor pool. "If you're sued, you lose," contends Jerry Maatman, a partner at Chicago's Baker & McKenzie, who in 1989 hit upon the idea of offering companies "audits" of their personnel practices--and so their vulnerability to a discrimination suit. "Our job is to find out what's wrong and then be a doctor and heal them," he says. And judging merely by the pending suits in his own city, there is still...