In recent years thousands of independent video stores have shut down, and since 1997, 8 of the plaintiffs' 10 stores have been sold or have gone out of business.
There is no publicly known connection between the 16 plaintiffs — 14 Yemenis, an Algerian and a Pakistani — and the C.I.A. videotapes.
He began the day reminding both sides of how much time they had used — plaintiffs: 2 hours, 47 minutes; defendants: 3 hours, 9 minutes — before engaging in an examination of his own.
On the day of this phone interview, an assistant in a nearby office was preparing the last round of checks — about $130 million — to be sent to plaintiffs, 21 years after the accident.
The court gave the plaintiffs 14 days to appeal, but Mr. Knoops said the complainants had little ground for such action: "In our system, only the prosecution can appeal a judgment," and that is "highly unlikely".
Defendant: villagers' committee in Village XX, County XX, Lawsuit request: 1. Defendant should compensate RMB 10000 as the land relocation fee for plaintiffs; 2. Defendant is responsible for fees involved in this lawsuit.
Meanwhile, according to plaintiff's attorney Samuel Casey of Advocates International in Fairfax, Virginia, also on 27 September, the government must respond to the plaintiffs' 9 September motion asking Lamberth to rule quickly on the underlying case.
Plaintiffs — 20 current and former student-athletes — filed the case a little more than five years ago.
There are reportedly 535 individual lawsuits to be heard, covering 120,000 plaintiffs and 72 million documents.
It names a total of 658 plaintiffs, including 29 who are bringing claims on behalf of people who died.
