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...compensate citizens for terrorist acts, the argument went, and the theater attack is neither the first Chechen operation nor is it likely to be the last. Vladimir Platonov, chairman of the Moscow City Duma, said the plaintiffs were digging into the pockets of average citizens. "Sue the Chechen guerrillas and their backers," suggested Andrei Rastorguyev, legal adviser to the Moscow government, reflecting his bosses' position. Under antiterror legislation, the region (or federation unit) in which an attack occurs must pay victims "moral and material damages." If a court awards compensation beyond the capacity of the region to pay, the central...
EUROBLUES So Sue Me The courts have not been kind to Mario Monti and the European Commission, overturning three of his merger-busting decisions last year, including a union of packagers Tetra Laval and Sidel, and a linkup between travel firms Airtours and First Choice. So the gloom in Brussels must have been thick as a lawyer's wallet when it emerged that another thwarted suitor, France's Schneider Electric, is suing the Commission for more than €1 billion over its blocked bid for rival Legrand. Schneider had completed the €5.4 billion deal for Legrand when the Commission...
JUNE 11 American Idol premieres, launching debate over Simon Cowell's put-downs, e.g., "Who's your teacher? Get a lawyer and sue...
Cheney, as Vice President, is still fighting the battle for Executive perquisites. That struggle moved to the courts when Cheney refused to identify the energy-industry officials who were consulted last year by his task force on energy policy. Members of Congress directed the General Accounting Office (GAO) to sue. Some outside interest groups also filed suit. But Cheney, with Bush's support, refused to yield, citing the need to protect private advice to the President and Vice President. When Matalin told him calls were coming in even from allies begging Cheney to compromise, he told her, "Suck...
Under Russian law, terror victims are permitted to sue only the local government, but it's the federal authorities who are held responsible for disregarding the hostages' lives in the postraid mess. One rescue worker involved in the operation, who asked not to be identified, said Federal Security Service officers delivered several crates of an unknown antidote to the theater and asked police to inject the unconscious hostages. But police administered the injections incorrectly, he said, or not at all. "I hate the terrorists who took my daughter hostage," says Tatyana Frolova, a notary public whose teenage daughter Dasha died...