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PINT-SIZE PLAINTIFF...
Poor Erin Brockovich. a twice-divorced mother of three, she lacks money for her kids' day care and her own meal at a diner. Yet Erin (Julia Roberts) has the stash for an endless supply of trashy frocks, which she wears to job interviews, even to court as the plaintiff in a car-crash suit. They're the sort of clothes that Roberts' hooker in Pretty Woman would have rejected as way too gaudy...
That was good enough for an unwitting Parliament, which in 1982 gave Lloyd's its exemption from future lawsuits. The insurer could thenceforth be held liable for damages only if a plaintiff could prove "bad faith," something that is difficult to establish under British...
...which has a 130-year tradition of tuition reimbursement to students who attend secular private high schools when there is no public high school in their district, does not extend that reimbursement to parents who choose, under the same circumstances, to send their kids to religious private schools. The plaintiff parents claim their children's religious freedom is violated by the state's refusal to help pay for religious schooling; last June, Vermont's Supreme Court ruled that funding such schooling would violate the state's constitutional commitment to the separation of church and state...
...settlement is good news for Dow Corning - the plan allows it to pay back its creditors and return to business. Not just yet, though: The specifics of the bankruptcy ruling, to be released next week, could raise some hackles and send the settlement to appeal. Particularly if the plaintiff groups (or their lawyers) feel slighted by their share of the damages...