Word: lawsuits
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This note is in regard to your recent article about Margaret Cimino's lawsuit against New Haven. I think it is absolutely ridiculous for her to use them at all. She, or the lawyers, are trying to milk New Haven for negligence when she chose to go out on the field in the first place. Is it the responsibility of the police to protect aggressive behavior? I think it was negligence on her part for joining such a senseless group of students in the first place. I don't care how big a tradition tearing down goalposts...
...considering a lawsuit," said attorney Daniel J. Finn. "He's foreclosed no options...
...legal team found that for every 1,000 grievances, ranging from cases of discrimination to consumer problems, in which more than $1,000 was at issue, only about 100 cases resulted in the hiring of a lawyer and only 50 in the filing of a lawsuit. The researchers also tracked 1,650 civil lawsuits through federal and state courts and interviewed the more than 1,300 lawyers involved. The attorneys spent only about 30 hours on the typical case, which usually earned them well under $2,500, and they had median annual earnings of $45,000. Pretrial discovery, the early...
...establish that the more exposure residents had to water from two contaminated wells, the higher their risks of leukemia and other diseases. Woburn's childhood leukemia rate is two and a half times the national average. A group of six families has already made plans for a lawsuit against the companies involved...
While Jackson's attorneys contemplated a lawsuit, friends denied one rumored cause of the injury: the singer's hair, they say, had no flammable pomade or hairspray...