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...Engle case is a class-action suit--the first ever tried against the tobacco industry--which means that the plaintiffs (in this instance, three) sue on behalf of themselves and others, united by a common complaint. The case bears the name of physician Howard Engle, who suffers from emphysema and was originally the lead plaintiff. For the case truly to run its course, say some legal experts, Florida would have to try each of the hundreds of thousands of complainants' suits individually--to corroborate the $145 billion aggregate penalty...
...attorneys' attempt to explain away plaintiff Frank Amodeo's throat cancer by saying it was caused by wood dust the clockmaker had inhaled at work, not cigarettes: "To us, that was unbelievable," Finegan said. "It was insulting to me and an incredible level of denial in the face of all the evidence and the earlier verdict...
...case, brought by James Dale of Monmouth, N.J., challenged the Scouts' dismissal of Dale, which everyone agreed was based solely on the plaintiff's sexual orientation. Dale was long considered a golden boy of the Scouts, rising through the ranks to receive a prestigious Eagle Scout badge. In 1992, a member learned that Dale was gay, and proceeded to dismiss him from his position as an assistant scoutmaster...
Additionally, she says, if the case does make it to a jury trial, the jury members may side with the "little guy" plaintiff because jurors often view large institutions unsympathetically...
...states themselves. It deserves the support of Harvard students as well ˆ we should not fail to recognize the significant impact VAWA can have on our lives. The aforementioned U.S. v. Morrison concerns a rape case at Virginia Tech: when denied proper legal proceedings at the university, the plaintiff was able to use VAWA to seek damages. Acknowledged or not, rape and other forms of gender violence constitute a problem that penetrates without compunction the ivy walls surrounding our own campus. Both enduring and watching others endure the turmoil of such violence is already a devastatingly painful experience; without...