Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wrinn said he disagreed with O'Baoill's assessment noting that Harvard has no plans for any of its recently acquired acreage in Allston and was unaware of Fastnet's lawsuit until last week...
They could have Siegfried and Roy swinging from vines, and it wouldn't change the take on Bryant Drive. Residents and three homeowner associations lost a lawsuit to block the takeover, which is now on appeal. In March the same group filed suit in federal court, alleging a civil rights violation. The state stands prepared to wield the power of eminent domain, a legal term meaning "we can do anything we want." But the Bryants and their neighbors--Gussie Ellis and her family of five, and Pierre Hollingsworth's family of three, which rents from a local minister--are digging...
Maybe so, but friends and foes alike were quick to point out that her figures are anything but solid. The original trigger for Browner's proposal was a lawsuit brought by the American Lung Association. The suit accused the EPA of ignoring new scientific evidence showing that small particles in the air--bits of matter much tinier than the diameter of a human hair--are especially harmful to health. A federal judge ordered the agency to look at the evidence and, if the data warranted it, come up with new regulations...
...smokers. The settlement came just days before Moore was to set to take the cigarette industry to trial in Mississippi. The deal is separate from the $368.5 billion national settlement reached with the industry July 20, in which Moore acted as lead negotiator for several states. In his original lawsuit, filed in 1994, Moore sought $940 million for tax funds spend on smoking-related illnesses. At the time, the idea of a state suing the industry for health costs struck many as a bit of a reach. Having reeled in the national settlement, Moore clearly had the attention...
Carlow also acknowledged that a document which he filed earlier in the lawsuit proceedings was inaccurate...