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...baskets, may have suffered heart damage from cocaine use--rather than a common-cold virus--according to an exhaustive article in the Wall Street Journal. The Celtics, who were portrayed as covering up Lewis' alleged drug abuse, denounced the piece as "racist" and threatened to bring a $100 million lawsuit against the Journal...
...home-side lawyer for the plaintiffs assured the jury pool of farmers and sewing-machine operators, stock clerks and bookkeepers that he didn't want "to pry into your life," but said he wanted to know, "Is there anyone here who doesn't believe in filing a lawsuit for any reason? Is there anybody here who simply doesn't believe a jury should award punitive damages in any amount?" It was pretty quiet, and no wonder...
...insurance. Leave us Girl Scouts out of this, the group said. All right, the reform lobbyists said, if not a Girl Scout, then we will give you a little girl in pigtails who would like to play Little League ball this year, if it weren't for all the lawsuits. The full-page advertisement in the Washington Post said DON'T LET HER SEASON END IN A LAWSUIT. But the horse the conservatives rode hardest was the case of the elderly woman who was awarded $2.9 million in a judgment against McDonald's after she burned herself with a McDonald...
...Boston Celtics threatened to file a $100 million lawsuit against Dow Jones & Co. for an article in today's Wall Street Journal that suggests that cocaine may have contributed to the sudden death in 1993 of team captain Reggie Lewis. The Journal reported that those surrounding Lewis, including his family and team officials, ignored the possibility that cocaine contributed to his death in order to protect the team. A coroner reported that Lewis' heart failed because it was damaged by a common cold virus. While the Celtics insist today's story is false, Journal managing editor Paul Steiger maintains "this...
...decision came in the wake of a lawsuit brought by competitor Stanley Kaplan Educational Center contesting Princeton's test improvement claims...