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...motions to be debated at the hearing is whether Summers can continue to be held liable as a private citizen. Current Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill automatically replaces his predecessor when charges are leveled against Summers in his official capacity, but the Plaintiff in this suit maintains that he is suing Summers as an individual...
...life is scandalous and can scuttle a woman's credibility?nowhere more so than in a trial for rape. "The defendant's lawyer can use the number of a victim's sexual partners as evidence," says Yukiko Tsunoda, a lawyer in Shizuoka. "To win a rape case, a plaintiff often must prove violence, a threat to her life, and that she resisted with all her might...
...Wednesday, after a seven-week trial during which his lawyers alleged that Philip Morris intentionally glamorized smoking while downplaying its risks, Boeken was awarded $3 billion in punitive damages and $5.5 million in back pay and general damages. It is the largest award ever for an individual plaintiff. The plaintiff?s case was remarkable for its emotional appeal. Instead of leading the jury through a maze of sales charts and financial figures, Boeken?s team attacked the intentions of the tobacco giant, accusing it of a legacy of lies, deception and cold-hearted manipulation. The size of the award...
...ridicule. It is the result of legal errors we believe will require reversal of this verdict," PM vice president and associate general council William Ohlemeyer said in a statement Wednesday. "The jury was given incorrect legal instructions, prevented from hearing important evidence and asked to believe that the plaintiff was only vaguely aware of the risks of smoking and the U.S. Surgeon General's warnings that have appeared on every pack of cigarettes Mr. Boeken smoked for more than 30 years." The company vows to appeal...
DIED. CHARLES BLACK JR., 85, eloquent authority on constitutional law who in 1954 helped write the legal brief for 10-year-old Topeka, Kans., student Linda Brown, plaintiff in the watershed case Brown v. Board of Education; in New York City. From 1947 until his death, Black taught law at Columbia and Yale, where his students included Hillary Rodham Clinton; he also wrote more than 20 books, including Impeachment: a Handbook, widely read during Watergate and reissued during the proceedings against Bill Clinton...