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Edited by M.D.C.Bowen last updated September, 2001 |
Harper's
Forum JACK HITT is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. WILLIE E. GARY won a $500 million judgment against The Loewen Group Inc., the world's largest funeral-home and cemetery operators, in 1995 and $240 million against The Walt Disney Company last August. He is an attorney with Gary, Williams, Parenti, Finney, Lewis, McManus, Watson & Sperando, in Stuart, Florida. ALEXANDER J. PIRES JR. won a $1 billion settlement for black farmers in their discrimination case against the U.S. Department of Agriculture and is currently working on a multibillion-dollar class-action suit on behalf of Native Americans. He is an attorney with Conlon, Frantz, Phelan & Pires, L.L.P., in Washington, D.C. RICHARD F. SCRUGGS won the historic $368.5 billion settlement for the states in their suit against tobacco companies in 1997 and is currently building a class-action suit against HMOs. He is an attorney with Scruggs, Millette, Bozeman & Dent, P.A., in Pascagoula, Mississippi. DENNIS C. SWEET III won a $400 million settlement in last year's "fen-phen" diet-drug case against American Home Products Corporation and $145 million against the Ford Motor Company. He is an attorney with Langston Sweet & Freese, in Jackson, Mississippi. |
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