Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radar-invisible Stealth warplanes can hide in the sky, thanks in part to special materials and chemical coatings that do not reflect radar pulses. But these materials make workers ill -- or so claim scores of employees at Lockheed's Burbank, Calif., plant, home of Stealth. In a lawsuit, the workers complain that a panoply of ailments -- rashes, aches and pains, nausea, memory loss -- is being caused by unknown toxic agents in Stealth materials. Lockheed vice president John Brizendine insists that "we have seen nothing to indicate the materials we work with . . . pose a health hazard, providing proper procedures are followed...
Several members of the Council said city officials had not told them about the problem. Traffic and Parking Director George Teso refused to make public statements because of the possibility that he might be named in a lawsuit regarding the garage...
...those problems, the agency faces a new lawsuit from the National Housing Law Project, a California-based public interest law firm. The group contends that under a 1987 law, HUD is required to survey its inventory to see if some of the empty houses could be used to provide shelter for the homeless...
...birth certificate, which also recorded Arlena's blood type as O. A battery of genetic tests proved that the child the Twiggs had raised for ten years could not have been their daughter. Last week the family filed a $100 million lawsuit against the hospital, three doctors and a nurse, charging that they had switched the healthy newborn with a sickly infant whose mother had already relinquished it for adoption...
Dalton, who now teaches at North-eastern Law School, said she is waiting for the advice of Harvard law professors before determining if a lawsuit is the best way to air her concerns about the tenure process at the school...