Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attorney who filed a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit for 10,000 Holocaust victims and heirs that bought insurance from 16 European firms during World War II ? and contend their claims were denied ? says the case's first hearing will convene Wednesday in New York...
...history, a jury yesterday ruled Dow Chemical withheld information about the potential dangers of the implants. Dow Chemical, the parent company of the implant producer Dow Corning, had claimed it had no involvement in the product's testing. The verdict in the first breast implants class-action lawsuit to go to trial opens the door for a complex legal process in which 1,800 women are seeking money for immune system related aches and pains...
...First Amendment advocates fear, could put a clamp on public debate of legitimate health concerns, especially as food producers explore new agricultural techniques such as irradiation, genetic engineering and fertilizers made out of recycled sewage. The first major legal test of the food-disparagement laws will be a Texas lawsuit, in which a group of cattle ranchers have sued Oprah Winfrey for a show she did on mad-cow disease. States where you risk a suit if you scoff at the squash...
...snapshots of him sunbathing in the nude with then girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow. Unfortunately the judge did not order Playgirl to collect the 300,000 or so copies that were already in subscribers' mailboxes and on newsstands, thus creating a publicity bonanza for the flesh mag. Pitt is pursuing a lawsuit, despite the fact that the images are available on the Internet. Meanwhile, straight from the file marked Tales of the Expected, Duets, the movie starring Pitt and Paltrow, has been shelved, seemingly at the instigation of its director, Paltrow's dad Bruce...
...breaking point was in June," Fastnet's attorney John Pollets said. "Tony called and said there were maggots on his desk. Rats were rotting in the ceiling and the maggots were dropping from there." Fastnet's lawsuit calls for trebled damages to be paid to the company for these conditions...