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...district court judges in the Fifth Circuit. And, as Hatch noted, almost all of the matters on which Pickering was reversed were minor issues unrelated to the substance of the case (such as the precise determination of legal fees to be paid by a losing defendant to the plaintiff...
That's how in 1995 Ronald Huber became one faceless plaintiff among 5,000 class members--"They viewed their clients as mere inventory," the 2002 complaint says of its defendants. These mass tort cases typically involve dozens or even hundreds of corporate defendants and thousands of plaintiffs. There could be a core of wrenching cancer cases, but many of the plaintiffs are healthy people who could prove that they had been exposed to asbestos. Publicity about the evils of big corporations and asbestos cover-ups helped make for plaintiff-friendly juries, especially in states such as Texas and Mississippi, where...
...threat of both civil and criminal charges. They all want to know why he seemed to be touting Enron stock and simultaneously selling his own shares--while knowing that the firm he had turned from a staid pipeline operator into an innovative energy-trading giant was imploding. Investigators for plaintiff lawyers tell TIME they are looking into allegations that investment bankers helped top executives like Lay and former CEO Jeffrey Skilling (who is also supposed to pay a visit to Capitol Hill this week) put so-called collars on their stock options so they would not lose money, no matter...
...everyone is buying the pleas of poverty, however. "The way you browbeat people into taking less money is to convince them there isn't any," says Fred Halstrom, a Boston lawyer representing a plaintiff in a sex-abuse suit there. "But the Catholic Church worldwide has immense assets." The Vatican itself doesn't cut checks or direct legal strategies to its dioceses around the world. But it is hammering out new procedures for handling future abuse allegations in a "desire to coordinate actions in these delicate matters," says Monsignor Tarcisio Bertone, a Vatican official. The Vatican's new involvement...
...think she could be crucial, and that in federal court she might be the only plaintiff with standing,” Field wrote in an e-mail...