Three 1986 publications from Alvan Feinstein describing 'postmortem-surprise lung cancers' were funded by the notorious Council for Tobacco Research and are often cited in defence against medical monitoring lawsuits (McFarlane et al, 1986a, 1986b , 1987.
Despite some such conflicts, large, well-resourced national groups such the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council seek out these groups as partners in everything from environmental monitoring to lawsuits.
The increase in the number of officers who have been punished comes as the department is facing the prospect of a federal monitor or a lawsuit to install one by federal prosecutors.
The idea of the independent monitor, like the lawsuits themselves, is rooted in the hope that a single judge can diagnose a complex problem and reform a huge organization like the New York Police Department based on the imperfect medium of trial testimony.
The Bush administration is closely monitoring a private lawsuit accusing members of the Saudi royal family of ties to Al Qaeda, and may move in a federal court here to dismiss or delay the suit, which was brought by relatives of Sept. 11 victims, according to administration officials.
By neglecting to monitor snowmobilers adequately, the lawsuit alleged, the government was abetting the disruption of the habitat of grizzly bears, a protected species.
The agency agreed to the stepped-up monitoring to after a lawsuit was filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union and others.
The monitoring conflict has produced one lawsuit and two grievances, and in a letter to Rob Manfred, baseball's chief labor lawyer, Larry Gibson, the lawyer for the World Umpires Association, threatened legal action over Manfred's treatment of him.
As Republican lawmakers monitor the path of the lawsuits challenging Mr. Clinton's authority on several fronts, some members of Congress and industry officials expect the Bush administration to appoint officials at the Justice Department and other agencies who would coordinate a full-throttled attack against the last-minute Clinton environmental measures.
An Ottawa-based vibrator company is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly monitoring and recording how its customers masturbate.
