Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...along by muckraking journalists. Others raised new doubts when the 12 juniors were informed for the first time that Hussain was convicted last year along with two colleagues of gang-raping a nurse in a Rockport beach house in September 1980. Jury foreman Glenn C. Wright said after the verdict was announced that he would have changed his mind if Judge Andrew G. Meyer '45 had permitted the prosecution to question Hussain about the previous conviction...
CLEARER TOXIC-SHOCK VERDICT...
...toxic-shock syndrome, which earlier in 1980 had been linked to superabsorbent tampons like Rely. Kehm's family sued Procter & Gamble, and last week in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, they won a jury award of $300,000. The only other Rely litigation to reach trial produced a baffling jury verdict March 19 in Denver: the company was found negligent, but the victim, who survived, won no money for her illness or her claims of psychological damage. Lawyers bringing some 400 other suits against Procter & Gamble were cheered by the clearer outcome in Cedar Rapids. Said Plaintiff Michael Kehm: "I hope...
...verdict on the Borg case, then, can only be anticlimactic. Though a negative decision might taint the Borg legacy, his Wimbledon record and six French Open singles crowns assure him election into the Tennis Hall of Fame. Conceding to Borg's request would not jeopardize the legitimacy of the game--not from the perspective of his fellow competitors, or from that of the fans. In fact, Wimbledon should display flexibility and discretion by ruling in favor of Borg--if it has the courage or the conscience...
Though the jurors apparently decided it did not, lawyers representing women in other TSS cases could take satisfaction from the jury's negligence verdict. It did not explicitly find that Rely caused toxic shock. But Microbiologist Philip Tierno of New York University Medical Center clearly bolstered the plaintiffs case with his testimony that the cellulose chips in Rely "can provide the sole nutrient" to encourage the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium sometimes present in the vagina. The bacteria, in turn, generate poisonous waste products, which are circulated by the blood...