They are unable to find lawyers who think they would make good plaintiffs, or they are simply too daunted.
"If they've got good plaintiffs here, if they've done a good job -- going up against Wal-Mart, you would hope they've done a good job -- they will have some named plaintiffs who will have some good stories".
One compound fracture of the elbow, Dr J. M. S mall's; good result; plaintiff nonsuited.
The one African-American on the original panel, he said, was dismissed for allegedly wishing a plaintiff good luck.
Indeed, to prove that city school children had been denied their constitutional guarantee to a good education, the plaintiffs established that more money generally translates into a better all-around education.
Mr. MacLeish said today that as a gesture of good faith, the plaintiffs' lawyers had agreed to stop almost all current litigation, postponing scheduled depositions by Cardinal Law and Bishop John McCormack of the Manchester Diocese in New Hampshire, who served as a top aide to Cardinal Law in handling sexual abuse complaints against priests.
Arbitration lawyers contend that the decision will not affect their cases and that it was dismissed for good reason: the plaintiffs were not Merrill Lynch clients and never claimed to have actually read and relied on Mr. Blodget's research in making their decisions.
"Apple's use of the mark 'iBooks' to denote the electronic library that can be accessed via its iPad tablet computer and its iPhone is likely to overwhelm the good will of plaintiffs'ibooksks' and 'ipicturebooks' marks and render them virtually worthless".
"The fact that the federal government has declared [killer whales] to be endangered is a good thing," Karen Munro, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, told the Associated Press.
The city asked Judge Hellerstein to dismiss the suit, arguing that, for good or ill, a plaintiff's property rights to claim a body for burial were predicated on knowing in fact that it belonged to a loved one.
