Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...District, the main defendant in the suit, proposed a new pollution-control plan aimed at persuading U.S. Attorney Dexter Lehtinen to back off. Lehtinen's reply: "We are going forward with the litigation aggressively." The battle may drag on for years and end up as the most expensive environmental lawsuit ever...
...water-management district is also angry. John Wodraska, the district director, claims that the lawsuit is a nuisance that only delays his staff from working on a plan to save the Everglades. Moreover, the suit is costing a fortune in both state and federal funds. Beyond the Justice Department's considerable expenses, the water district's board has spent $980,000 on legal fees and expects to dole out at least $175,000 more a month. Yet a majority of board members seem as recalcitrant as the farmers. "If ((Lehtinen)) wants to fight, let's go ahead," said board member...
HRAAA has promised to file a lawsuit and seek an injunction preventing the plan's implementation, but Roberts said that Harvard "is prepared to respond and...will prevail...
Although Harvard initially threatened the city with a lawsuit over the new zoning, University officials announced earlier this month that litigation would be too expensive and would delay development of the site...
Although Harvard initially threatened the city with a lawsuit over the new zoning, University officials announced earlier this month that litigation would be too expensive and would delay development of the site...