Word: suits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beaulieu filed a class action suit Monday against the state, the Fernald School and other individuals and agencies who oversaw the experiments...
...former Harvard Medical School faculty members, Clemens E. Benda and Earle Chapman, are among the defendants named in the suit, said Jeffrey Petrucelly, Beaulieu's attorney...
...suit was filed in Suffolk Superior Court on behalf of at least 53 other participants in the so-called Fernald Science Club...
...firm was too small and its cash flow insufficient to finance a war with not one but two conglomerates at the same time. Even if they won, two-thirds of any settlement or verdict was pledged to Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, a Washington group that farmed out the suit to Schlichtmann. There would be staggering expenses for expert witnesses, legal specialists and clerical work. Last, and sometimes it seems least, was the compensation for families whose children and spouses had suffered or died from leukemia...
...seldom praised for doing a good job. After putting in the long, tedious hours, after experiencing the gut-wrenching fear of another dangerous arrest, and after completing mountains of paperwork, it is disheartening to go into the courtroom and see the now clean-shaven defendant, wearing a suit and tie, walk out with a slap on the wrist. In U.S. society now everyone is a victim, and no one is responsible. Police work, just like every other profession, has its share of questionable people. Where money, power and greed are prevalent, cops, attorneys, bankers, politicians and others will be tempted...