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...million Amount of the settlement that will go to former bond saleswoman and lead plaintiff Allison Schieffelin...
...that John Edwards delivered the closing argument in the biggest case of his career, the courtroom in Raleigh, N.C., was packed with young lawyers who had come to hear the master speak. The plaintiff, Valerie Lakey, 8, had been hideously injured three years earlier when she was caught in the suction drain of a wading pool. Most of her intestines had been ripped from her body. For the rest of her life, she will need to be hooked up to feeding tubes 12 hours...
...million Amount that Morgan Stanley will pay to settle a sex-discrimination suit filed by more than 300 women; $12 million goes to the lead plaintiff...
Meanwhile, a class action filed in California on behalf of former detainees raises the specter of brutal physical abuse. One plaintiff, identified only as Neisef, claims that after he was taken from his home on the outskirts of Baghdad last November and sent to Abu Ghraib, Americans made him disrobe and attached electrical wires to his genitals. He claims he was shocked three times. Although a vein in his penis ruptured and he had blood in his urine, he says, he was refused medical attention. In another session, Neisef claims, he was held down by two men while a uniformed...
...Julie Goodridge, the couple who led the lawsuit that resulted in the SJC’s ruling. The wedding will take place in the UUA’s headquarters, right across from the Massachusetts State House, where Romney and various lawmakers attempted to deny them their constitutional rights. Another plaintiff couple in the Goodridge case, Gloria Bailey and Linda Davies, is having its wedding aired on ABC’s “Nightline.” The open-mindedness and activism of the UUA, as well as that of other religious organizations, such as the Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish...