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...Wednesday, after a seven-week trial during which his lawyers alleged that Philip Morris intentionally glamorized smoking while downplaying its risks, Boeken was awarded $3 billion in punitive damages and $5.5 million in back pay and general damages. It is the largest award ever for an individual plaintiff. The plaintiff?s case was remarkable for its emotional appeal. Instead of leading the jury through a maze of sales charts and financial figures, Boeken?s team attacked the intentions of the tobacco giant, accusing it of a legacy of lies, deception and cold-hearted manipulation. The size of the award...
DIED. CHARLES BLACK JR., 85, eloquent authority on constitutional law who in 1954 helped write the legal brief for 10-year-old Topeka, Kans., student Linda Brown, plaintiff in the watershed case Brown v. Board of Education; in New York City. From 1947 until his death, Black taught law at Columbia and Yale, where his students included Hillary Rodham Clinton; he also wrote more than 20 books, including Impeachment: a Handbook, widely read during Watergate and reissued during the proceedings against Bill Clinton...
...knows this better than the plaintiff in this case. Gail Atwater, who was returning from a soccer practice with her two young children, claimed Texas police violated her Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure when they arrested her in 1997 after noticing that none of the trio was wearing a seat belt. Justices Souter, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy and Rehnquist ruled against Atwater, stating that while "the arrest and booking were inconvenient to Atwater, they were not so extraordinary as to violate the Fourth Amendment." Interestingly, everyone on the Court agreed with Atwater and her lawyer that the policeman...
...other convicted felons - have a constitutional right to DNA testing. In a fiery 13-page ruling, District Judge Albert Bryan wrote that Fairfax County prosecutor Robert Horan violated Harvey's civil rights when he refused to allow testing on DNA evidence collected for Harvey's trial. "Denying the plaintiff access to potentially exculpatory evidence would result in... a miscarriage of justice," Bryan wrote. If it stands, Bryan's ruling could have staggering repercussions on national criminal law; defense attorneys have long argued that defendants be entitled to post-trial DNA testing, particularly in death penalty cases, but many prosecutors have...
...that case, the plaintiff, Mark Breimhorst, blamed his rejection from business schools on the flagged scores and charged ETS with violating anti-discrimination laws. Disability advocacy groups including The International Dyslexia Association and the Californians for Disability Rights subsequently joined the case...