For two years, work has started and stopped, and started again, depending on the outcome of some lawsuits and the resolution of various Building Department violations.
And last week, while the gun producer Smith & Wesson averted some legal woes by agreeing to change some product designs and business practices to settle some lawsuits, the prospect of that option for tobacco companies ranges from remote to nonexistent.
The group has also been writing letters to media companies and diet gurus that it says have unfairly put oranges in an unfavorable light, and has indicated that it might file some lawsuits accusing defendants of defaming the fruit.
Mr. Connolly disputes the outcome of some lawsuits.
Some lawsuits run the risk of making those who file them look silly -- and even redounding to the benefit of the defendant.
Last month they voted down a bill that would have given gunmakers immunity from some lawsuits because an extension of the ban had been amended to it.
It was only later, when Al showed Dave photocopies he'd made of some lawsuits related to the properties, that the two began to notice a pattern: the same attorneys and staff appeared again and again.
Tenet is troubled with some lawsuits related to its billing of non-HMO patients, but analysts reporting to Thomson Financial/IBES have upped their 2002 forecast for the company.
Should we be concerned that institutions could face an insurmountable cascade of lawsuits, some of them involving former, perhaps temporary employees, incurring legal expenses that impede their ability to function?
It is an effort that has generated some frustration among the American public, fed up with the lack of criminal prosecutions since the financial crisis, and a slew of civil lawsuits, some of them seemingly repetitive, aimed at banks.
