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...rejected dentist Drew Morvant's argument that the patients could have infected him or his staff. The judge is slated to decide damages in May. The government pressed a similar case in Texas, where an HIV-infected man got $100,000 from a dentist in an out of court settlement. "It's an uncertain area of the law," says TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen, who notes that while the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the ADA covers victims of some diseases, it has not issued any decisions on whether the law applies to AIDS patients. "This is definitely...
Instead, the College, the Burnhams and the D.U. reached a settlement that severely constricts club hours for the remainder of the semester. The D.U. has closed until April 15 and, upon re-opening, will close on Friday and Saturday nights at 10 p.m. While we're glad that the D.U.'s graduate board decided to take strong action in the matter, we still doubt the College's ability to deter incidents of this kind in the future...
...settlement may be Tudjman's vanity. The 72-year-old Croat yearns to be recognized as a world statesman--not a mere regional warlord--and he has a chance to play that role this week in a visit to Washington. In public, the State Department is providing him with a place of honor during ceremonies marking the first anniversary of a Croat-Muslim federation in Bosnia...
...would come in if things fell apart," says a State Department official. Holbrooke, the official says, "let him know that the West is not going to get involved if events lead to a Serbo-Croatian war. If it got really nasty, we would implement sanctions." But until a real settlement can be found, the abyss will always be there...
...stay that kind of litigious stir, not just in Barbour County but also in the heart of the national citizenry, the House approved 1) a "losers pay" bill, which would require the party that had first rejected a settlement and then won a judgment for a lower amount to cover the opposing side's legal fees; 2) a bill tightening requirements for bringing securities-fraud lawsuits; and 3) a bill that would cap punitive damages in product-liability cases at $250,000 and allow judges to sanction parties that bring frivolous product-liability lawsuits. The bills were welcomed...