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Judge’s Multi-Million Dollar Pants Suit Goes to Trial
Roy Pearson, a Washington, D.C. administrative law judge, is suing his drycleaners for $54 million for losing his pants and posting signs saying “satisfaction guaranteed.” His ridiculous lawsuit is…
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Tobacco Settlement Too Greedy and Venal for Even the ABA
Yesterday, I said that trial lawyers received $14 billion (not million, billion) under the 1998 tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), in discussing how that lucrative…
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Judge’s Pants Worth $13 Million
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More Nigerians Sue U.S. Tobacco Companies for Billions
More states in Nigeria are suing American tobacco companies for billions of dollars. The suit began when one state in Nigeria decided to…
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Cigarette “Lights” Class Action Lawsuits Can’t Be Pulled Out of State Court
The Supreme Court has just ruled in Watson v. Philip Morris that the tobacco companies can’t pull lawsuits against them out of state court…
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Congress Discriminates and Panders at the Same Time
There's an interesting editorial in the New York Times today about how the military is losing some of its few Arab translators due to…