Word: suit
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...told, defendants in the case will fork over at least $31 million to settle the government’s suit. That includes last year’s $1.5 million settlement with FFIA, a firm owned by Shleifer’s wife, Nancy Zimmerman...
Shleifer, a close friend of University President Lawrence H. Summers, has continued teaching at Harvard since the suit was filed in 2000. The University has not announced any disciplinary action against him. Hay, now a lawyer for Cleary Gottlieb in London, was fired by Harvard after the program disbanded...
...This poor investigative record also bolsters a popular belief among Muslims that the security forces are responsible for unsolved murders. Last week the parents of a young Muslim called Ilmin Nuruladil filed suit against five soldiers in Yala provincial court for allegedly shooting their son after apparently confusing him with a militant. The soldiers claim they fired in self-defense. (A preliminary hearing...
...When things go wrong and there’s a possibility of a malpractice suit, the basic policy has been for everyone to keep their mouth shut and let the lawyers take over. And a kind of wall of silence has built up between patients and their families and the doctors,” Delbanco said. “We’ve said that’s not the right thing to do, and that frank and open and human discussion should occur right away...
...into the realm of amusingly horrendous. As Wade plummets to her possible death in the plane ejector’s seat, we hear her screams back at base over her still intact radio unit. A vivid, second-by-second narration follows with such gems as “My suit is on fire. It is on fire,” as well as “I’m hit. I’m hit” after she is walloped with a piece of the plane in free fall. But nothing is better than her ability to countdown...