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9/11 wrongful death trial to be timed
NEW YORK, April 28 (UPI) -- The clock will be ticking for both sides in the last wrongful-death action from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, a judge ruled.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- A former secretary who stole confidential information from Disney has been spared jail after blaming her boyfriend.
NEW YORK, April 4 (UPI) -- Proposed compensation for Ground Zero workers' health claims is unfair for the workers and too generous for lawyers, the U.S. judge handling the cases says.
NEW YORK, March 20 (UPI) -- A federal judge has refused to accept a $575 million settlement over cleanup at the World Trade Center site in New York.
NEW YORK, March 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge said he favored keeping more than a million pages of Sept. 11-related documents secret, despite efforts by victims' families to make them public.
NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The sickest workers claiming ailments caused by the cleanup of the World Trade Center will be the first to have their cases heard in court, a U.S. judge says.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Manhattan Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein has ordered 60 of the estimated 10,500 Ground Zero illness lawsuits to be ready for trial by 2010.
NEW YORK, July 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge in New York has thrown out a $28.5 million settlement divvied up among four families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A federal judge in New York said Thursday that he might question CIA agents about the destruction of two videotapes of harsh interrogations of detainees.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- New York is not entirely immune from lawsuits from rescue workers made sick at the World Trade Center wreckage in 2001, a U.S. judge has ruled.
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