And lawyers may mount a claim on behalf of passengers alleging trauma.
Conditional Fee Agreements –"no win, no fee" – were designed to help the impecunious to mount a claim when wronged.
Within days, the heirs of Paul Rosenberg (1881 1959), a Parisian art dealer who had represented French Modernists, mounted a claim for Matisse's painting Femme assise (1921).
"It is usually not in the interest of a single business to mount a claim," said Brian G. Cartwright, the S.E.C.'s former general counsel who now works at the law firm Latham & Watkins.
But the government is too weak, corrupt, divided and disorganized to mount a claim beyond Mogadishu, the capital, leaving clan warlords, Islamist militias and proxy forces armed by foreign governments to battle it out for the regions the Shabab are losing.
The IPCC itself was late in mounting an inquiry, claiming there was nothing suspicious about the death for almost a week until the release of footage of the incident obtained by the Guardian forced a U-turn.
He pleaded guilty but subsequently fought the charges, even mounting a High Court challenge claiming the government was infringing on a constitutionally-implied right to "freedom of communication on political and governmental matters".
Gordon Brown yesterday accused the Conservatives of "back of the envelope calculations" and mounting a deception by claiming to fund a national insurance cut through finding an incredible £27bn of efficiency savings this year.
Earlier this month, however, Sufiya and her lawyers -- who are being paid by Baobab, a national women's support group financed by the Ford and MacArthur Foundations -- began mounting a different defense, claiming that Adama was not fathered by Abubakar but is in fact the daughter of Sufiya's former husband.
With Obama trying to rebuild our diplomatic ties with the rest of the world and trying to engage some of our adversaries, the Right is already mounting a fearmongering campaign claiming that such a shift from Bush-ish isolationism will endanger America.
