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...members of your entering class, the admissions office of you college may have engaged in collusion with other colleges to which you were admitted to eliminate or reduce your scholarship aid. you may be entitled to damages of treble you aid reduction, plus attorneys fees. Top participate as a plaintiff in an antitrust class action suit, lease contact William F. Swiggart, Attorney...
...Even accepting the allegations as true, the plaintiff's case has no merit under the law," said Harvey J. Wolkoff, a second defense attorney for the case...
Even some less demagogic observers have begun to attack the profession. Thursday's Wall Street Journal, for example, in its tepid endorsement of the president, said "containing the plaintiff bar would do more for the American economic performance than all of the infrastructure Bill Clinton proposes to build...
...juries may occasionally award large sums of money to grievously injured, sympathetic plaintiffs. But what about the thousands of victims who sue and receive nothing? If anything, the U.S. needs to liberalize access to the courts for people with legitimate grievances. Access to justice is a fundamental part of any democracy. Inequities of access may be counteracted by the contingency fee system (by which a lawyer receives compensation only from a jury's reward--not from a losing plaintiff) and by the utilization of lawyers who do pro bono work (free legal service...
...plaintiff does not compare his experienceto any similarly situated individuals from which areasonable jury could draw the conclusion ofdisparate treatment," Doerfer wrote in hisdecision