Relatives of victims criticized the proceedings, calling them a whitewash and expressing doubts that the group had been wiped out.
This week, Mr. Rangel stormed out of the subcommittee's proceedings, calling them unfair and complaining he could no longer afford to pay a lawyer.
The vast majority of electricity that flows into New York buildings comes over Con Ed's lines at rates that the company agrees to with the state Public Service Commission in sometimes protracted and arcane proceedings called rate cases.
The ruling came after a dramatic and puzzling appearance by Mr. Rangel, 80, in which he protested that he could no longer afford to pay his lawyers, and indignantly walked out of the proceedings, calling them unfair.
The goal of the proceedings (called Flugtag, German for "flying day") was to launch a homemade, human-powered object off a barge and send it into the air as far it could go.
Leventhal sat center stage and directed the proceedings, calling out keys ("B-flat is the new old people's key," he said genially) and occasionally reaching over to tune someone else's guitar.
The 88 workers, mainly women, reached out of court settlements totalling £469,000 after the trade union Unite launched a Facebook campaign and issued legal proceedings calling on BetFred to honour redundancy terms in their contracts.
A state court judicial commission has asked the State Legislature and Gov. George E. Pataki to raise the hourly rate paid to lawyers who represent the poor in family court and criminal proceedings, calling the present rate "utterly inadequate".
PAGE B1 Guantánamo Bay Hearings Detainees at the Guantánamo Bay naval base are making their cases at proceedings called administrative review boards, in which each prisoner is allowed to tell his account and dispute charges that he was part of the Taliban or allied with Al Qaeda.
During the 1994 testimony on Capitol Hill, Mr. Spears, who was then chief operating officer of Lorillard, lashed out at the proceedings, calling them a "witch hunt on the part of several of these Congressmen to gain support for their own legislation".
