Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AIDS should be allowed to attend school if they are physically able to do so. New York City's decision to permit a single unidentified seven-year-old girl with AIDS to enter a second- grade class provoked an angry parental boycott in two Queens school districts, and a lawsuit has been filed seeking a reversal of school-board policy. In a bizarre twist to that case last week, the attorney representing the second- grader announced that there is evidence that the child does not have AIDS after all. The city health department stuck by its contention that the youngster...
...other day a salesman here said to me, 'I need an extra day off. It's tiring delivering all this bad news.' " Many businesses and local governments have been forced to go uninsured, thereby risking bankruptcy or at the very least a fiscal squeeze if they encounter a large lawsuit...
...many desperate businesses and municipalities have started practicing do-it-yourself insurance. The smaller cities and companies do this by joining together to create a reserve of cash from which claims can be paid. Larger ones simply salt away what they think will be enough money to cover any lawsuit. Then they start hoping that they will not be sued...
...CLAIMING VICTORY in John R. Lakian's recent lawsuit against The Boston Globe, Globe Editor Michael C. Janeway proudly called the jury's decision a victory for the press because the article in question was found to be "substantially true...
NEVER MIND that Lakian's lawsuit was as absurd as Janeway's post-trial comment. Lakian ought to do us all a big favor and do some fact-checking on things like his upbringing, schooling, on things like his upbringing, schooling, military service and business career...