Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elizabeth Ramos, 32, is seeking unspecified damages in her suit against the health plan and doctors Kenneth A. Bernstein and Cynthia G. McGinn, both Harvard clinical instructors in medicine. She claims the physicians were negligent in their diagnosis and treatment of her illness, even though her symptoms were evident...
Commenting on the suit, Alan Raymond, spokesman for HCHP, said in a prepared statement that the company sympathizes with Ramos, but "the facts of her case are very complicated and we are restricted as to how much we can say by the confidentiality of her medical record...
Trim, in good shape, in his grey flannel suit, White hardly looked like the political boss that his ward-savvy rhetoric suggested. He said the politics of the Boston which he served were of an era gone...
Access to the courts. As an appeals judge, Bork also took a narrow view of the right of plaintiffs to bring their cases before the court. Accordingly, he voted to dismiss suits brought by veterans, the homeless, the handicapped and consumer groups. Opponents point out that he has rarely ruled this way against business plaintiffs. In one widely noted case, he also dissented when his colleagues upheld the right of a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives to bring suit in opposition to President Reagan's use of a pocket veto. Bork went so far there as to assert that...
...recent study by Ralph Nader's Public Citizen Litigation Group claims that in most split decisions on the appeals bench, Bork favored businesses when they brought suit against the government but favored government when the plaintiff was an individual or public interest group. That raises the question of whether the principles he invokes are always "neutral." It takes a strong man never to put his intellect at the disposal of his convictions...