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...loco parentis. Unlike a parent-child relationship, "there is no special relationship between university officials and a student that imposes duty (to protect students)," contends Jerry Meek, a Dallas-based malpractice lawyer. Without proving that such a duty to students exists, it will be difficult for any plaintiff to claim successfully that it was breached...
...filed not by Al Gore but by an Altamonte Springs personal-injury lawyer--demands that the county throw out some 15,000 absentee ballots because of alleged fraud. That would give Gore a net gain of about 5,000 votes, more than enough to win the White House. The plaintiff, a Democrat named Harry Jacobs, charges that because G.O.P. workers were allowed to fill in blanks on thousands of absentee-ballot applications last October, none of the ballots should count. A similar suit was filed Friday against Martin County, another wealthy, predominantly Republican county. G.O.P. officials have belittled the charges...
...When Clark bristled at plaintiff's lawyer Gerald Richman's closing-argument suggestion that she could put the fear of the court into future elections supervisors - "My job is not to send a message... my job is to rule in the case that's before me" - it seemed a statement that could cut both ways. Then there was the lunchtime injection of suspense: Was the situation fluid? Could one or both of these cases turn George W. Bush into what he hasn't been for 31 days now - the challenger...
...precedent which allows a looser interpretation of "contest" requirements, the circuit court decision is untenable. The Bush lawyers, on the other hand, insisted that Sauls ruled the only way he could: The Gore team, after all, did not satisfy existing standards for a recount, which require a plaintiff to prove there is "reasonable probability" that a recount will yield a changed election results...
...argued Boies in his rebuttal. In fact, precedent dictates that "reasonable probability" is the wrong standard; as long as the plaintiff proves "reasonable possibility" of a changed result, a recount must be allowed. "We have identified specific votes" that were not counted, Boies told the Justices. "There was a clear voter intent expressed on those ballots and they were not counted...