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...Masry and Brockovich are pressing on, still aglow from their legal and financial triumph celebrated in the movie. That victory has gone largely unchallenged, except by columnist and author Michael Fumento who, as early as 2000, documented some of the firm's questionable tactics. The suit, on behalf of Hinkley, California residents, focused on an ionized form of chromium called chromium-6, a rust inhibitor that was carelessly dumped by the giant utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, and seeped into the groundwater used by the town's residents. In bringing suit against PG&E, Brockovich's law firm charged that chromium...
...junk science. School officials dispute the numbers Brockovich is throwing about. They say 216 claims have been filed against the school district, and only 94 of them involve cancers. And what about those specific cancers - Hodgkin's Lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and thyroid cancer - listed in the initial suit filed against the oil companies by the Brockovich firm? As the University of Southern California medical school's Cancer Surveillance Program flatly states, "Known causes of these cancers are not petroleum or petroleum products...
...Assistant Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz filed a petition for review with the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) of Massachusetts on Monday, hoping that the state’s highest court will agree to review a June 6 decision of the Appeals Court of Massachusetts that threw out his civil suit...
Harvard’s decision to revoke Hornstine’s offer of admission is the latest development in a saga that began with Hornstine’s $2.7 million suit aimed at preventing her Moorestown, N.J. high school from appointing a second student to share her valedictory honors...
Hornstine’s suit drew national attention and triggered strong reactions, from Harvard to her hometown...