LAWSUITS 1998

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• Judge slashes judgment against Lake Hospital System for reneging on a job offer to Dr Joseph Goldberg
  Plain Dealer 24 Dec, 1998, pg. 4 sec. B

• Affirmative action scaled back by Mayor White; mayor says he's trying to protect the city's contracting with minority & female-owned businesses from legal challenge
  Plain Dealer 23 Dec, 1998, pg. 1 sec. B

• Peter Goldauskas, Vermilion, who lost his leg in a crane accident last June, is suing the Elyria Foundry Co for negligence for failing to maintain crane safeguards and the crane maker for defective design
  Plain Dealer 05 Dec, 1998, pg. 7 sec. B

• Lawyers from the Lorain County Bar Association to act as mediators during Settlement Week in Lorain County
  Plain Dealer 28 Nov, 1998, pg. 3 sec. B

• Juvenile Court Judge Robert A Ferreri files lawsuit against WKYC Channel 3 and former reporter Kate Lurie for disclosing remarks he made about another judge during a widely reported case about a transracial adoption
  Plain Dealer 24 Nov, 1998, pg. 4 sec. B

• John M O'Brien, 65, fired employee of Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo, is suing Russo for $1.95 million and the return of his job; claims he was fired because he criticized the way Russo ran the office
  Plain Dealer 24 Nov, 1998, pg. 5 sec. B

• Largest legal and financial threat to the tobacco industry ended yesterday when 46 states accepted a $206 billion plan to settle state lawsuits filed against cigarette makers to recover Medicaid money spent treating diseases related to smoking; Ohio expects to collect $9.86 billion from the deal over the next 25 years
  Plain Dealer 21 Nov, 1998, pg. 1 sec. A

• Mayfield Hts: Federal Judge Donald C Nugent, Northern Ohio District, orders citizen activist Lindell V Riddle and his attorney, John Manos, to pay legal costs the city incurred defending itself against a Riddle civil rights suit
  Plain Dealer 21 Nov, 1998, pg. 2 sec. B

• Washington: George Voinovich, more than a month away from being sworn in as a senator, signaled his intention to stick up for states by announcing he will fight to keep the federal government's hands off the $206 billion tobacco settlement
  Plain Dealer 21 Nov, 1998, pg. 10 sec. A

• Ohio to join multistate tobacco settlement, Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery says
  Plain Dealer 19 Nov, 1998, pg. 1 sec. A

• New York: Tobacco deal deadline is Friday; Ohio is among states studying huge settlement
  Plain Dealer 18 Nov, 1998, pg. 17 sec. A

• Chicago White Sox slugger Albert Belle settles a lawsuit with Tony Tomsic, a photographer he clipped with a baseball in 1996 while he was still with the Indians
  Plain Dealer 17 Nov, 1998, pg. 2 sec. B

• Columbus: Tobacco settlement may yield $9.8 billion; state has until Friday to accept deal, drop suit
  Plain Dealer 17 Nov, 1998, pg. 1 sec. A

• Mayfield Heights' "vexacious litigator" lawsuit against citizen activist Lindell V Riddle is dismissed; city ordered to pay Riddle's legal costs
  Plain Dealer 17 Nov, 1998, pg. 2 sec. B

• Columbus: US District Judge Edmund Sargus to rule whether a lawsuit by Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp against imports belongs in federal or state court; the lawsuit was filed in the St Clairsville court of his wife, Belmont County Common Pleas Judge Jennifer Sargus, who postponed a hearing pending her husband's ruling
  Plain Dealer 15 Nov, 1998, pg. 5 sec. B

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