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Everybody fronts the precedent-setting verdict of a Brooklyn federal jury finding that several gun manufacturers were legally responsible for the criminal use of firearms, awarding $500,000 in damages to a New York teenager wounded in a 1995 shooting.
The settlement ends a legal struggle that has gone on for over six years, but individual women can still pursue their claims for damages of up to $550,000.
The damages, over $10 million more than sought by the plaintiff, are the largest ever awarded in a hate crimes case.
The new information to be gleaned from the documents and Wigand could conceivably persuade juries in the 300-plus tobacco-liability suits then pending to award hundreds of billions in damages.
Lewis can't really be proposing to suppress the "60 Minutes" Willey interview--which was, in truth, not a story based on "gossip" or "innuendo" but first-person testimony about the behavior of the president in the Oval Office, about which the voters are surely entitled to form an opinion--in order to protect a puny civil suit for money damages?