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...Wise’s strategy is more radical. He once listed a dolphin named Rainbow as the plaintiff in a lawsuit against an aquarium, and he hopes to establish animals as legal persons in future suits—he argues that if corporations and ships can already be persons before the law, it is absurd that animals cannot. Wise believes that until animals achieve legal personhood, even the strongest welfare laws will be undermined by animals’ property status—right now, there is no such thing as “animal rights law” he notes...
...your clients aware that Barack Obama was elected and that he wants to close Guantanamo? They are. One client, Mr. [Lakhdar] Boumediene, the lead plaintiff, has been on hunger strike for two years. Twice a day they strap him in a chair, force his head back and put about two liters of the liquid protein Ensure down a tube through his nose into his stomach. It's a very brutal procedure, but they're determined that he not fast himself to death, so they do this to him. [When he found out Obama was elected] he was so excited that...
...where agencies may lack muscle, the personal-injury bar doesn't. To date, plaintiff attorneys have filed 60 suits against Baxter and SPL in federal court. SPL CEO Strunce can claim his company's heparin met Chinese standards, but that's probably a meaningless defense in a U.S. trial. For American drug companies using sources in China, quality control is not just China's problem--it's also their problem...
...particular, Chambers charged God with “making and continuing to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons, including constituents of the Plaintiff who Plaintiff has the duty to represent…[and often causing] calamitous catastrophes resulting in the widespread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction...
Last week, Chambers’ blasphemous legal battle finally met with defeat, as the inability to contact the plaintiff overcame the senator’s quixotic fervor and a judge denied his request for a judgment. But, in the legislator’s defense, his justification for the lawsuit has generally been lost amid the frenzied media coverage...