Word: suits
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...tedious tracking of every last lead, the lawyers have set to work. In addition to more than 300 attorneys who have signed up to provide pro bono legal services to victims and their families, O.J. Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. and Oklahoma City attorney John Merritt have filed a suit on behalf of several survivors against the maker of the fertilizer allegedly used as an ingredient in the bomb. (The company, ICI Explosives USA Inc., has responded that there is no evidence it was their fertilizer.) And last week University of Texas law professor Michael Tigar, well known in legal...
...really agree with them either." Weaver, who held off federal agents for 11 days in the siege, is now waiting out conditions of his probation that restrict him to southern Iowa through the end of this year. He has also filed a $180 million civil suit against the federal government...
...expect that the suit against the bailiffwill produce at least the same amount of damagesas I would have gotten from Le Figaro,"Suleiman said. "But there may be additionaldamages for the harm done by the bailiff's ownerror...
...Reed made his rounds among America's most important politicians last week, he looked for all the world like a junior executive, neatly attired in a crisp, dark suit and starched button-down shirt, dashing, luggage in hand, from taxicab to commercial aircraft. At times, he thumbed through his history book of the moment, Doris Kearns Goodwin's new biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. But there was nothing mundane-or junior level-about his encounters. In addition to New Hampshire's Governor, he met with Senator Dan Coats to discuss the Foster nomination and a new bill on school...
...Teamsters helm, viewing him as the union's best chance for reform and publicly promoting him as almost squeaky clean. Four of the union's past eight presidents had been indicted on criminal charges; three of them went to prison. In 1989 the union finally settled an epic racketeering suit in which the feds accused its leadership of forging a "devil's pact" with the Mafia. Under the settlement, the Teamsters agreed to allow the members to elect their president freely. Since then, Lacey and his team have booted out more than 200 union members on a wide range...