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...verdict that did not hold, a jury found former Mass. State Police lieutenant colonel Francis D. "Bud" Riley--now chief of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD)--responsible Tuesday for retaliating against a state police trooper...
Because the judge had previously ruled that Monahan's report was not protected by the first amendment, the jury's verdict will not go into affect unless the judge's first amendment ruling is appealed and overturned...
...code to attorneys in a separate case against software firm Caldera in Utah. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has ordered a hearing Thursday to chew the matter over. Chances that this Microsoft veteran will raise a skeptical eyebrow at the latest complaint: High. Chances that Microsoft would appeal such a verdict: Even higher...
...executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, explains the persistence of nursing-home abuses. But a recent spate of multimillion-dollar jury awards to nursing-home residents and their families because of poor care may force some homes to improve. A California woman won a $95 million verdict after the jury was told how she broke her shoulder and shattered her hip (last month a judge cut the award to $3 million), and a jury awarded $6.3 million to the family of a Florida man who wandered from his nursing home and drowned in a pond...
...reproductive biologists, these issues pale in the face of two more immediate and practical questions: Is Dolly really a clone--and if so, can anybody make one? It's taken a while, but the answers are finally in. The verdict, according to a trio of reports in the current issue of Nature: yes and yes. Not only have Dolly's pedigree and her immaculate conception been established beyond all reasonable doubt, but she has been joined by litter upon litter of perfectly cloned mice. Cloning has, with a speed no one anticipated, been transformed from an astonishing technical tour...