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...matter the official outcome, in most libel suits everyone loses. The aggrieved plaintiff seeking to restore his reputation winds up giving far wider, more enduring publicity to the very allegations he wants to suppress. The accused journalist may win in court -- for First Amendment reasons, the rules are tilted in favor of the press -- but is less than certain of being vindicated. Often, a story that provokes a suit is legally defensible yet morally tainted by bias, animus or procedural lapses; the trial turns into a lesson in press ethics, with the reporter as the flustered pupil...
...plaintiff has ever won damages in a lawsuit against a tobacco company, but a ruling by a Mississippi judge may provide plaintiffs with their strongest ammunition yet. The judge wrote that cigarettes are "defective and unreasonably dangerous" because they cause illness when used as intended. If his reasoning becomes generally accepted, plaintiffs in smoking cases will no longer have to prove that tobacco companies were negligent but simply that cigarettes led to illness or death...
...response to the new suit, which was filed with the Middlesex court, Epstein acknowledged that he owed the money but denied that he withheld payment. "The defendant has paid all or part of the sums due the plaintiff," the response said. Epstein's response did not indicate the method of payment...
...Landry] was turning off Mass. Ave. down Dunster St. and in trying to move between an illegally parked truck and the plaintiff's car, he hit the plaintiff's vehicle," Escobari said...
Lipman, who filed the civil action motion, wrote that "the plaintiff will, in all likelihood, recover in excess of $25,000." Lipman said yesterday it would be up to a jury to decide how much of that amount each defendant would...