Gender violence remained an open secret until the judges in the Taddei case reduced Vázquez's sentence, ruling that his crime had been committed in a fit of passion.
The judge in the case reduced his payment to $4,128, saying that while Mr. Meyers had put in the time, his fees were "too excessive".
Judge I. Leo Glasser, who is overseeing the case, reduced the number of defendants, limited the number and scope of the charges and, last week, barred the testimony of certain key plaintiff's witnesses.
The new American painting, by contrast, meant vast canvases by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still and others, with a gripping energy and directness, and an emotional impact that, in Rothko's case, reduced some viewers to tears ("they are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them," Rothko explained).
In May, in approving a settlement of the class-action lawsuit by the models, who contended that several model agencies colluded to fix prices, the federal judge in the case reduced legal fees to $3.8 million from the roughly $9 million requested, in part out of concern over the conduct of plaintiff lawyers during the case's evidence-gathering phase.
India's Central Bureau of Investigation is in court trying to have the charge in the case reduced to a "rash and negligent act" from "culpable homicide," a move opposed by victims' groups who say it would allow the former chairman of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, to avoid extradition to India.
