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...through any agent, ruse, guise device or means, however indirect." "We believe it is too difficult to expect business owners to start checking IDs before they sell a soda" said Espinal, who moved to Hazleton in 2001 and is now a real estate agent and tax preparer and a plaintiff in the lawsuit. The Dominican immigrant, who has lived in the U.S. since 1988, says he doesn't feel personally targeted by the ordinance, but it is clear that the requirement would fall more directly on Hispanics. "If you look a certain way, you're going to get asked...
...bomb might penetrate fortified underground bunkers. It will be the biggest open-air chemical blast ever conducted at the Nevada Test site - 280 times more powerful than the explosion that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. "The concern of downwind communities is ?Here we go again,?" said plaintiff Stephen Erickson of the Salt Lake City-based Citizens Education Project. Though not a nuclear test, Erickson is afraid the huge blast "could kick up radioactive dust from previous nuclear testing," and claims "the Pentagon has sprung it on everybody with no examination of its effects...
...Eddy exaggerated the pain of minor injuries in order to get out of a job he didn't like. He probably didn't think he would really become disabled by being a good plaintiff. It's the evil twin of rehabilitation - act sick-get sick - and it happens a lot. "Accentuate the negative" may be sound legal counsel, but it's the worst possible medical advice anyone could ever give. It's a pain for the doctor, and often ultimately, an even bigger pain for the patient...
...Harvard Square T stop, according to a settlement announced Monday. Changes to the local T stop include the addition of a new elevator and the replacement of the current elevator, Greater Boston Legal Services Senior Attorney Taramattie Doucette said. The settlement, filed in 2002 by GBLS, represented 10 plaintiffs with various disabilities. The plaintiffs cited personal experiences as proof that there was an imminent need for improvement in public transportation. Plaintiff Joan Golden of Medford, Mass., who uses a wheelchair, said she sustained a serious injury when a lift she was on came out from under her. Despite the experience...
...prostitutes to sue their pimps for emotional, physical and psychological damages in civil court. Only the states of Florida (1993), Minnesota (1994) and Hawaii (1999), as well as the federal government, have similar laws on the books, but Illinois would be the first state make it so that the plaintiff would not have to prove they were forced into the profession. The bill's language assumes anyone-women, men, young girls and boys-engaged in prostitution was coerced into the trade one way or another...