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...decision on Friday that Phillip Morris must pay $28 billion in punitive damages to a lifetime smoker may prove a blessing in disguise for the tobacco giant. Betty Bullock, a 64-year-old with lung cancer who has smoked since age 17, persuaded the jury to punish the company for malicious deception she claims lured her into addiction. They were so disgusted that they set the award a full $8 billion higher than Bullock’s attorney requested, and $25 billion higher than the largest settlement to date...
...disrupt the al-Qaeda organization in Europe. But Françoise Rudetski - president of victims' defense association sos-Attentats, one of the civil parties in the Bensaïd case - stresses that everything experts and investigators may say about unfolding plots is of little import if they can't punish terrorists who have already acted. "Bensaïd's behavior inflicts additional wounds on his victims, and is an insult to everyone who values life," she comments. "This man must never be allowed to hurt anyone again." Chances are that he won't. But there is no shortage of people...
...prepared to lie and know that the media can't prove otherwise." In the absence of reforms that shift the burden of proof, says Robertson, piecemeal measures will have to suffice to protect freedom of expression: "One of the few things that can be done is to punish people who use libel laws as a form of gold digging. Those caught lying in the course of libel actions should be prosecuted." That's exactly what happened to Jeffrey Archer, the best-selling novelist and former Conservative Party deputy chairman, who in 1987 won ?500,000 from Express Newspapers for allegations...
Morgenstern said he had considered the possibility of disciplinary action being taken against him for sending out the e-mails without administrative approval, but still felt the administration “probably couldn’t punish...
...Georgians fear that the object of any Russian military retaliation will be not simply to punish them for harboring Chechen rebels, but also to weaken Shevardnadze, already unpopular at home because he presides over a corrupt regime. Moscow's ideal outcome is Shevardnadze's ouster and replacement by a more pro-Russian leader...