Word: attorney
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Last week federal Judge Robert Peckham dismissed the crew's suit, tartly noting that despite the "novel legal theory" put forth by their attorneys, it was clear the couple had no intention of being injured by the train. Said Willson's attorney, Thomas Steel: "The decision has laid to rest the idea that a person who is run over can be sued for causing distress to the person that runs over...
...Suffolk County District Attorney's office also has sent blood samples to a lab for DNA testing which would establish the parenthood of the child. Results will take at least three weeks, said Dr. Gerald Fegin of the state Medical Examiner's office...
Police also are looking for insurance policies. Stuart has collected $82,000 on an insurance policy due his wife for her work as an attorney. A search of the couple's Reading home has turned up another $100,000 policy...
...Securities and Exchange Commission has a new top watchdog. After toiling for twelve years as an SEC staff attorney, William R. McLucas, 39, last week was named director of enforcement. He succeeds Gary Lynch, 39, bane of inside traders Ivan Boesky and Dennis Levine, who resigned last summer to take a job at a New York City law firm. McLucas suggested that after years of prosecuting high-profile Wall Street insider-trading cases, the agency might additionally focus more closely on basic securities abuses, in which brokers exploit unsophisticated small Main Street investors...
...accused is Michael Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a Hungarian now living in Illinois. Was he the malefic Miska, who as a member of the Arrow Cross during World War II raped women at gunpoint and tossed bundles of Jews into the Danube? Laszlo's daughter Ann (Jessica Lange), an attorney, believes her father is innocent and fiercely defends him in court. But the weight of survivors' testimony is too heavy, too obscene, to dismiss. Can she believe that her doting father committed such acts? And if she does believe it, can she still love...