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...Concord, Calif., plowed into an antiwar rally. Some witnesses stated that the train's three-man crew had increased its speed as it neared the demonstrators to scare them off the tracks. Yet the crew members, claiming they had suffered mental anguish because of the incident, filed a suit for damages against Willson and his wife...
Last week federal Judge Robert Peckham dismissed the crew's suit, tartly noting that despite the "novel legal theory" put forth by their attorneys, it was clear the couple had no intention of being injured by the train. Said Willson's attorney, Thomas Steel: "The decision has laid to rest the idea that a person who is run over can be sued for causing distress to the person that runs over...
Westside authorities turned down Mergens because they felt that giving the club access to school facilities would violate their policy against "advocacy groups" and might amount to an improper endorsement of the club's religion. But Mergens and her fellow club members countered in a suit that the refusal violated the 1984 federal Equal Access Act. That measure forbids public secondary schools to discriminate against any student group on the basis of its "religious, political ((or)) philosophical" views, if -- and this is an important if -- those same schools permit other "noncurriculum-related student groups" to meet on their premises during...
...Tyler was tried and convicted for theft and conspiracy, and served four months behind bars. Refusing to let the matter end there, however, he slapped a $53 million suit on the two neighbors and the county for intercepting and recording his private conversations without a search warrant...
...lawsuit, which was filed in August, 1989, alleges that the former Northeastern University student was raped at the club during a 1988 Harvard-Yale game party. In the suit, the woman argues that the club failed to supervise the event adequately and violated state law by serving liquor to minors...