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California, along with Hawaii, Illinois and Florida, is a particular hotbed for ADA lawsuits and the law firms that bring them to court. "California may be the worst in the country," says Peters, citing several factors for potential abuse, chief among them two California statutes that provide $1,000 or $4,000 in minimum damages, plus attorney fees, per each successful claimant. Many claimants multiply these damage amounts by the number of conditions they observe at a property. This frequently results in $50,000 or more in damage demands, says Peters. Some serial claimants will file for damages against dozens...
...Hizballah appears to be confining its protests to fiery rhetoric and street demonstrations. In a widely watched televised address Sunday night, Hizballah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah directed his anger more toward Arab governments, Egypt in particular, for complicity in the onslaught against Hamas than toward Israel itself. "Some Arab regimes ... are helping by all means to impose the conditions of surrender on the resistors of the American-Zionist project," he said. "The 2006 July war occurred under Arab approval, even Arab request... They told the Israelis to get rid of Hizballah. They are doing the same thing in Gaza, they...
...paper, called "Flawed Assumptions about the Credit Crisis." After going through a reckoning of the aggregate data - including the fact that consumer credit hit a record high in September 2008 - Marenzi put forth a couple of possible explanations, including "that policymakers are reacting to the situation of a particular set of businesses and financial institutions and are incorrectly generalizing these to the economy as a whole...
...online dating market during the recession in 2001, when the combination of Sept. 11 and the collapse of the dotcom bubble sent the demand for Internet dating soaring. "People were actively searching for community and companionship," Dahl says. "We saw a 200% increase in membership during that particular period...
...jumped between westerns, family films, epic period pieces and goofball buddy pictures, Fleming's rapid climb up the studio ladder came in large part thanks to the friendships he cultivated with such movie stars as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Clark Gable and Gary Cooper. In particular, his association with Fairbanks got Fleming into the studios, affording the young director not only considerable clout but also an education as to how to tolerate, befriend and mentor major movie stars. It's a skill that was put to good use in working with Judy Garland in Oz and Gable in Gone With...