Word: robertses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A glance at the 18 films of the past 12 months earning more than $100 million reinforces the who's-in-it? who-cares? trend. Only six, besides M:I2, had front-line performers: Tom Hanks in The Green Mile and (we're being generous) Toy Story 2, Harrison Ford...
When Randy Roberts first took the case, he knew the odds of embarking on yet another battle against a corporate Goliath. A small-town lawyer from East Texas, Roberts was representing the parents of a 14-year-old girl, Jessica LeAnn Taylor, a junior high school cheerleader who died in...
It also fought hard to keep its consumer-complaints data and lawsuits private, saying it knew of only one accident very similar to Taylor's. But Roberts wasn't buying that. On Nov. 22, 1999, he secured a crucial victory. In a dramatic ruling, state judge Sam Bournias ordered Firestone...
That piqued the agency's interest. On April 4, officials there contacted Roberts. Most product-liability attorneys preferred not to get involved with NHTSA. Once a fierce enforcer of auto safety (it instigated a massive 1978 recall against Firestone), it had become just another underfunded government regulator with little power...
Sources close to the Harvard-trained Lenzner say client-confidentiality agreements and his attorney's sense of ethics often prevent him from speaking publicly about I.G.I. investigations. In a statement last week, Lenzner asserted that all I.G.I.'s actions have been legal. In Washington, where he earned his stripes as...