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...four continuing members of the ACSR are: Milton C. Weinstein, professor of policy and decision sciences in the School of Public Health; Theodore Chase '34, a retired lawyer; Ernest Monrad '51, of Northeast Investors Trust of Boston; and Joan Keenan '45 of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company...
...chemical companies that manufactured Agent Orange, the dioxin-contaminated defoliant that the military sprayed over Viet Nam from 1965 to 1970. The plaintiffs claimed that Agent Orange had caused, among other things, skin disorders in many of the soldiers and birth defects in some of their children. Judge Jack Weinstein of New York, who worked out the mass-damage award, is now holding hearings to gauge reaction to the settlement before he decides whether to approve...
...Roberto Weinstein, a prospective engineering major at college, agrees. "It's pretty intense--especially with midterms and all--but people seem to have fun all the time...
Judge Jack Weinstein hammered out the settlement at federal district court in Brooklyn, N.Y., shortly before dawn of the day that jury selection was scheduled to begin. The seven corporate defendants-Dow Chemical, Monsanto, Uniroyal. Diamond Shamrock, Hercules, T.H. Agriculture and Nutrition and the now defunct Thompson Chemical-denied any liability for the veterans' illnesses: their position was that Agent Orange had not caused the health problems and that they had merely manufactured the defoliant according to the military's instructions. Nonetheless, the companies agreed to place $180 million into a fund that will be used to compensate...
...settlement reached last week was due mainly to the forceful prodding of Judge Weinstein. He appointed three prominent lawyers to work as intermediaries. In the final stages of the negotiations, the veterans sought $250 million plus interest; the chemical companies offered $100 million without interest. During the weekend before jury selection was to start, two of the mediators worked round the clock, shuttling between empty courtrooms in the cavernous Brooklyn federal courthouse with proposals and counterproposals. The lawyers napped on tables and benches, munched on delicatessen sandwiches, played cards and studied the latest offers. At midnight before the Monday trial...