But Bryant, whose ProServ management company represents 10 N.B.A. players, not all of whom will be named in the lawsuit, said the problem is that Van Exel would want to finish the season in Europe -- even if the N.B.A. lockout were lifted -- and then return to the United States as a free agent next summer.
But leaving the distinctions to individual doctors leads to inequities, harm to patients, distrust in medical care and lawsuits; ignoring the problem should not be an option, either.
Some of its hospitals fended off lawsuits over the problem in recent years, and were admonished by regulators over staffing issues more than once.
That episode, which Mr. McAlpine's lawyers have said would be the subject of a defamation lawsuit, compounded the problems facing the network since revelations last month about a longtime BBC television host, Jimmy Savile, who died at 84 in 2011.
The lawsuit contended that the problem of the moving goal post worsened after the Southern Company stopped using seniority as the main way to determine which employees would be promoted to supervisory jobs in the mid-1990's.
His lawsuit asserts that the problem went back to the 1990s, when the company speeded up its production lines to take advantage of a boom that occurred as municipalities began to replace their aging metal and concrete water systems with PVC pipe.
Senator Jeffrey D. Klein of the Bronx and Westchester, one of the Democrats who opposed the measure, said he doubted that exposing institutions to lawsuits would solve the problem of sex abuse by their employees.
In a bid to win back customer trust, AT&T decided to settle a class-action lawsuit yesterday that addresses the problem.
State-based lawsuits in California uncovered the problem.
Again, their dishonesty and absurd lawsuits do not mean the problem doesn't exist.
