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Davis and a handful of other plaintiff 's lawyers are attending the trial in person . The cases will be returned to their original jurisdictions after the pretrial proceedings.There are 477 cases in the multi-district federal litigation and another 382 are being moved to Fallon 's court . Prosecutors claim she begged the ex-boyfriend , Jason Arrant , and another former lover , Brian Radel , to murder her mother after telling them falsely that she was being physically abused at home.Her defense contends Waterman 's complaints against her mother were typical teenage angst and Arrant had his best friend , Radel , kill Lauri Waterman because she broke up his romance with the teenager.Small-town investigationIn his three hours on the witness stand , Claus indicated that the direction of the investigation was heavily informed by his own personal connections to the Waterman family and other residents of Prince of Wales Island . " Interpretation " of the built environment that they're seeing is still the missing link for most people - - and this interpretation should be social as well as architectural . For this reason , you will be writing continuously for this course , producing 2 formal papers and a range of short , ungraded reaction papers . I am a resident of Thorne Bay Alaska and this case has rattled our little island . Charles Dickens , William Thackeray , and George Eliot were the premier novelists of their day - - they wrote bestsellers , and those bestsellers made them internationally famous . A long-nosed man had a little group about him , and he was telling some story over and over again ; and another man , little and fat and wide-eyed , sought to capture the long-nosed man 's audience with some relation in which a key figured . She said Waterman and another friend went driving around their small island town to " get her mind off " her mother 's disappearance.With her father looking on from the prosecution table , Claus recounted how Waterman asked that they stop at a nearby school so she could use the restroom . " I would be surprised if Merck would just cave [ and settle cases ] simply based on having to have lawyers run in a lot of different directions , " said Deborah Barnard , a Boston lawyer specializing in product liability cases.But New York attorney Michael London , who is handling more than 100 Vioxx lawsuits but is not on Lanier 's team , said Lanier 's strategy is a good one because it makes things less predictable for Merck.With nearly all the lawsuits so far filed either in New Jersey or federal court and just two judges overseeing those cases now , London said , Merck can expect consistent rulings and know when its cases will be scheduled for trial.Merck can automatically move to federal court any class action cases , although that 's a tiny minority so far , and any cases filed in state courts outside of New Jersey.If the plaintiff in the state court also names a second defendant , such as a doctor or pharmacy , in that plaintiff 's home state , usually the case cannot be moved to federal court . Why should there be one law for men , and another for women ? The drug 's link to heart attacks and strokes has spawned thousands of lawsuits and a $ 253 million jury verdict in Texas.As recently as Wednesday , company lawyers were still saying they planned to fight each personal-injury lawsuit . He claimed to recognize Watts as the man he saw lurking outside his home in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale , right off 8-Mile Road , minutes before he discovered Dutcher 's body.In the courtroom packed with Dutcher 's family members and those of Watts ' Texas victims , First Criminal Assistant Attorney General Donna Pendergast emphasized the gory similarities between Dutcher 's murder and the 13 slayings Watts confessed to in 1982 . " The Importance of Being Earnest depicts a world in which the best kept secrets are the ones that everyone knows ; a world in which everyone knows very well that their world is not as stable , as exclusive , or as moral as it pretends to be ; and a world in which everyone appreciates the vital importance of maintaining at all cost what they know to be the fictions of everyday life . In the case of biography , this charge was intensified by related concerns that the act of writing up a lived life for the reading public was a gross invasion of privacy and a violation of the respect that is owed to the dead .