Word: lawsuits
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...lawsuit was filed last week in U.S. District Court aimed at disallowing companies from distributing term papers online. In the suit--believed to be the first of its type in the nation--Boston University alleges that online term paper distributors violate federal law by engaging in mail and wire fraud, and violate a state law prohibiting the sale of term papers and other research materials. A representative of one of the companies named in the suit, speaking to The Crimson on grounds of anonymity, claims in its defense that B.U. is attempting to abridge its First Amendment rights by censoring...
Rhoda Johnson, Ila Swan's mother, lived at Creekside nearly two years, until July 1993. Her family alleged in a lawsuit that the nursing home essentially abandoned Johnson: she was often left lying in her own waste, hungry, cold, unfed and unturned. One day she complained to Swan that her hip hurt. With her sons' help, Swan lifted her mother out of the bed, pulled up her nightgown and collapsed in sobs. "She had this bedsore on her hip that was so deep," her daughter recalls, "that I could see the hip socket and leg bone moving inside the hole...
...Children Act of 1975, which required public schools to provide disabled children with a free, appropriate education designed to meet their unique needs. Susan Leviton, a University of Maryland law professor, used the law, which she called "the greatest piece of social legislation ever written," to file a federal lawsuit in 1984 on behalf of a group of disabled children denied timely delivery of educational services. The lawsuit, known locally as "Vaughn G.," resulted in a 1988 consent decree in which the school system agreed to follow a strict timetable for evaluating and educating the children...
Carleton said that students have also received the lawsuit with open arms...
...source's company voluntarily halted sales to Massachusetts since they became aware of the lawsuit, he said...