Word: suits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...February, lawyers filed a $1 billion suit on behalf of the lab's neighbors, claiming that pollution from the facility has caused cancer and other illnesses in the neighboring community...
Fish Unlimited's law suit will allege that BNL violated the Clean Air and Clean Water Act. The suit also alleges that pollution from the lab has caused those who live near the lab to develop cancer and other illnesses...
...suit is being handled by attorney Jan Schlichtmann who undertook a landmark suit against two corporations for water pollution they caused in Woburn, Mass. The case was made famous by the book A Civil Action...
...there will always be the occasional surprising decision. Two years ago, for instance, a severely depressed attorney who worked for the San Francisco utility Pacific Gas & Electric asked for shorter work weeks and a transfer to a more understanding supervisor. According to the employee's lawyer, he filed suit when the company refused, and talks broke down over the plaintiff's request for positive evaluations should the company rehire him. A court-appointed arbitrator ordered the utility to pay $1.1 million to the plaintiff. (Federal law limits awards to $50,000 for an employee in a company...
...realizes that Byck has crossed the line into the realm of lunacy as he is observed recording tapes of his complaints to Leonard Bernstein, imploring him to write more love songs ("What the world needs now is love, sweet love," he cries). Weber's portrayal of the Santa-Claus-suit-clad Byck was convincing, if a little surreal. Giuseppe Zangara (Edward Ha '97), like Czologsz, is a skeptic of capitalism, but his smaller role and reduced presence in the play makes him harder to characterize...