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That is certainly a focal point of Tab Turner's case. The Little Rock, Ark., lawyer has spent a decade investigating SUV rollovers, and has beaten Ford three times in court. He won a $25 million verdict in 1995 that involved the Bronco II, forerunner of the 1990s Explorers. Over the past eight years, he has taken more than 30 depositions from Ford and Firestone employees on the engineering and development history of the Explorer and the tires that were designed for it. A top Ford official, on videotape, admitted to Turner that Wilderness AT tires were susceptible to failure...
...rapidity with which this new class of drugs has emerged is nothing short of stunning. Of course, until the clinical trials now under way render a verdict, no one knows whether any of these novel compounds will turn into a pharmaceutical Cinderella, but at least the possibility is there. "Compared with what [Alzheimer's researchers] had coming down the pipeline a couple of years ago, it's night and day," says Dale Schenk, vice president of neurobiology at Elan Pharmaceuticals in South San Francisco. "Finally we have moved out of the laboratory and into the clinic...
...Supreme Court's ruling in Bush v. Gore will no doubt be taught in law schools and high school civics classes for as long as there is a Supreme Court. It is too soon to know the ultimate verdict of history. But it is not too early to start drawing a few lessons from the decision and the court that delivered it. Among them...
Those who have been listening for even a year knew that this was characteristic Boies. During the long Microsoft epic, months before he won the devastating verdict against the company last April, they had heard him discuss the company's monopoly. "This is not about creative legal arguments," he said at one point. "It's not about creative economic arguments. It is about common sense. It is about facts, and it is about what the real world demonstrates." No matter how well you know Boies, these words, the phrasing, the syntax, give no clue to the setting where...
...initiatives in California and Michigan that would have created statewide programs that return tax dollars to parents who send their kids to private schools. These measures fell by a ratio of more than 2 to 1, despite multimillion-dollar campaigns by wealthy voucher proponents. Then last week, in a verdict with nationwide consequences, a federal appeals court ruled that the voucher program in Cleveland, Ohio, violates the constitutional separation of church and state...