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...baffling jury verdict March 19 in Denver: the company was found negligent, but the victim, who survived, won no money for her illness or her claims of psychological damage. Lawyers bringing some 400 other suits against Procter & Gamble were cheered by the clearer outcome in Cedar Rapids. Said Plaintiff Michael Kehm: "I hope it's a benefit to other victims and families who have suffered...
Officials would not release the names of the plaintiff and the defendant, who are both minors...
...acquired freshman would have faced a jail sentence of 10 to 20 years if he had been convicted. Mel Nasielski, an administrative assistant to the Philadelphia district attorney, said Judge Leonard Ivanoski discharged the defendant due to insufficient evidence that the plaintiff actually was forced to have intercourse...
That strangely bifurcated outcome-perhaps the result of a compromise by the five-man, three-woman jury-astonished Plaintiff Attorney Jon Kidneigh. "We did win, didn't we?" he asked. "I've never won one and got nothing." Other lawyers, though puzzled by the verdict, had considered the case one of the weakest among those pending. After using Rely in May 1980, Deletha Lampshire, now 18, of Littleton, Colo., said she experienced typical TSS symptoms, including low blood pressure, high fever and peeling skin. She spent six days in the hospital. Since then, Lampshire told jurors...
...story on new techniques for determining scientific evidence [March 1], you failed to mention weather reconstruction as one of the newest forensic sciences. My firm has provided juries with convincing evidence that wind blew a car into a lane of oncoming traffic, or that at the exact time a plaintiff claimed a road was under water, there had not been enough rain to cause a flood. Forecasting is always subject to variable factors; hindcasting treads a more certain course...