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...Anthony Roisman, a lawyer with the Human Experiment Litigation Project, said the state should study the health problems of the survivors to see if there were any negative effects...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: State Officials Locate Radiation Test Subjects | 7/25/1995 | See Source »

...site. Surprisingly, both sides agree on the villains' identity: bungling federal bureaucracies whose errors and capriciousness have kept key issues from being resolved. Says Carl Goldstein, a spokesman for the pro-plant Atomic Industrial Forum: "It is horrendous what Seabrook shows about the regulatory process." Agrees Tony Roisman, an opposing lawyer: "You can't regulate this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Endless Seabrook Saga | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...which holds that public and private lands are subject to a "trust" held by the state for the benefit of the people. In the past, this doctrine has formed the basis of cases concerned with submerged lands (where the public interest involves navigation, commerce, fishing rights). Washington Lawyer Anthony Roisman believes that the doctrine can be expanded to include a clean environment. Indeed, it has prevented the filling of several lakes around Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conservation: A New Say in Court | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...shared its profits equally-at their financial peak in the '50s, they made about $40,000 a year each-and put all disputes to a vote. Deciding interpretive questions at rehearsals, they avoided 2-to-2 deadlocks by assigning one player two votes for the music at hand. Roisman could sometimes swing a vote his way, even when in the minority. He would say quietly: "Doesn't Mozart get a vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chamber Music: Farewell to the Budapest | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...quartet has not played in public since February 1967, when Mischa developed a pinched nerve in his spine. Concerts were canceled indefinitely, pending his recovery; despite a recent operation, his left side remains partially paralyzed. Roisman has had a heart condition since 1960, and Kroyt is now recovering from an operation, but there was never any thought of resuming without Mischa. The music ended, the members of the quartet are satisfied with what the years have given them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chamber Music: Farewell to the Budapest | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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