Word: attorney
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...civil trial of a former academic journal editor who claimed Harvard unfairly fired her because of a mental disability ended in a mistrial on Dec. 3, University Attorney Allan A. Ryan Jr. said yesterday...
...immigration officials have granted Elian permission to stay and apply for residency, but a family court in Florida will probably decide his fate. "I don't want Elian to be subjected to that tug-of-war," says Spencer Eig, the Miami attorney chosen to represent the boy. He is working for an out-of-court settlement between Elian's relatives in the U.S. and in Cuba. But under U.S. laws that deal with Cuba, relatives here can claim that Elian is a political and economic refugee. Still, the more direct blood ties legally favor Elian's father...
...took Haas 3 1/2 weeks to discover what killed the boy, and at that point she went to see Ben's parents and the attorney they had retained. "I told them we had saved the syringes," she says, "and had them tested, and that we accepted full responsibility for the error, and we were very, very sorry." The case was settled that evening...
...district attorney's office has decided there's no law enforcement objective in prosecuting the woman," he said...
Never let it be said that Janet Reno can't make up her mind. After an interminable interagency debate, the attorney general Friday indicted former Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee on espionage charges. What's surprising isn't the indictment - after all, we've known the story for nine months now - it's the time it took. So why did it take Reno so long to come to a decision? She was caught between the FBI, which was urging her to charge Lee with mishandling classified information and violating the Atomic Energy Act, and her own prosecutors...