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SETTLEMENT REACHED. Between the TOBACCO INDUSTRY and NORMA BROIN, 42, lead plaintiff in the $5 billion class action filed on behalf of 60,000 flight attendants seeking damages for secondhand-smoke-related health problems; in Miami. Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Lorillard agreed to pay $300 million to set up a research foundation on cancer...
...Most tellingly, Jones' team is not directly rebutting Bennett's denial. Susan Carpenter McMillan, the spokeswoman who has been at Jones' side since the start, limited her comments to a snide "how in the world would he know?". At the same time, the plaintiff's new Dallas-based lawyers are stressing that this is "not a cornerstone" of the case. Which, doubtless, is a disappointment to tabloid reporters everywhere: The President may not have to reveal all, after...
...civil action would force the mysterious plaintiff to reveal her identity, and make her a candidate for tabloid fame ? which, as Marv knows, can be more of a curse than a blessing...
DIED. AKIL AL-JUNDI, 56, onetime Harlem street thug who was the lead plaintiff in a class-action lodged by mistreated Attica prisoners and who later became a passionate and respected legal advocate for young criminals; of complications from diabetes; in New York City...
...order to prevail in court, a plaintiff needs to show that the marriage was perking along quite contentedly until a wanton intruder came along to wreck it. The complaint charges that Dorothy enjoyed the "love, society, companionship, support, affection, right of consortium and kindly offices" of Joseph until Cox "intentionally, wrongfully and unjustifiably and with malice alienated and destroyed a love and affection that previously existed...