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...Erin Brockovich walked in here," recalls bartender Lynn Tindell. "She was strutting her stuff. She knew all the guys were looking at her." Brockovich, as anyone who has seen the movie knows, was the sexy single mom who helped the residents of Hinkley, Calif., win a record $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric for contaminating their well water with toxic chromium VI. Then, like a true Cinderella, she sold her story to Hollywood. Happy ending? Not quite. "Good movie," says Lynn Morris from one end of the bar, "but they're making millions, and we're still dying...
...town centerpiece is the Zwaanendael Museum, a model of a Dutch city hall with ornamental gables and carved stonework. Inside are maritime history exhibits with information and artifacts relating to the 1631 Dutch settlement of Lewes and the 1812 British bombardment of the port...
Natchitoches, an hour southeast of Shreveport, is the state's oldest European settlement and a haven of Cajun history and culture. It was in nearby Melrose that author Kate Chopin lived and gathered material for her colorful collection, Bayou Folk, and numerous other short stories in 1894. Today the Melrose Plantation Arts and Crafts Festival, an annual June event benefiting Chopin's home and library, draws artists from across the nation and several thousand visitors to the Natchitoches area...
...economy. Prenuptial agreements have long been used by couples who want to set down the terms of any future divorce before they walk down the aisle. But what happens when one spouse unexpectedly comes into great wealth after marriage and wants to alter the terms of a potential divorce settlement? Enter the postnuptial agreement. "Anytime somebody is going to come into substantial unforeseen wealth, that is going to give them the opportunity to examine their relationship," says John Mayoue, an Atlanta lawyer who says the proliferation of Internet millionaires--though they are a little scarcer after this month's market...
...forearm, tobacco companies in the past few years have faced a steady succession of product liability cases. Now a federal judge wants to pull the whole Band-Aid off in one swift tug. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein has ordered plaintiffs' lawyers and tobacco companies to discuss a single settlement to end all tobacco litigation in the nation, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The so-called "tobacco wars" have been a piecemeal affair so far, with many different types of plaintiffs dealing with different laws in different jurisdictions. To Weinstein, who has a history of consolidating and simplifying convoluted...