Fiscal blow to Port Authority
If the agency is indeed made to pay $1.8 billion for not preventing the first (1993) bombing, as suggested by this week’s jury verdict (Oct. 27), it could be forced “to reduce drastically its spending...
View ArticleHaberman on Port Authority verdict
New York Times columnist Clyde Haberman, on a jury’s determination last week (Oct. 27, Oct. 29) that negligent security on the part of New York’s Port Authority was more responsible for the damage from...
View ArticleUpdate: Port Authority seeks voiding of WTC verdict
A few weeks ago (see Oct. 27, Oct. 29) a jury decided to hold the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey 68 percent to blame for the first World Trade Center bombing, and the terrorists themselves...
View ArticlePublicity roundup; Joseph Goulden, “The Money Lawyers”
In the Washington Post, Brandt Goldstein gives me a mention in the course of reviewing The Money Lawyers, the new book by Joseph Goulden profiling some of the country’s most powerful attorneys (“Legal...
View ArticleAirport Parking, Antitrust & Eminent Domain
For the past three years, Stan Cramer has been fighting to save his parking garage near the Harrisburg International Airport from eminent domain seizure by the airport’s municipal operating authority....
View ArticleTaxpayers still responsible for terrorist attack
A New York State Supreme Court Justice has denied a defense motion to set aside the jury verdict finding the Port Authority primarily responsible for the first terrorist attack on the World Trade...
View ArticleAppellate Division upholds ludicrous 1993 WTC bombing verdict
In the wake of the September 11 bombings, Congress established a Victims Compensation Fund and limited liability for a number of deep-pockets who were also victimized by the attacks. A number of...
View ArticleMore on the World Trade Center bombing decision
I have an op-ed in today’s New York Sun on the affirmance of the “Port Authority is 68% responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center car bomb” verdict. Earlier. Tweet Tags: Port Authority, September 11,...
View ArticleMarch 15 roundup
“Intellectual Easter egg hunt”: great Michael Kinsley column on Wyeth v. Levine and FDA drug preemption [Washington Post] Negligent for the Port Authority to let itself get bombed: “Jury Awards $5.46M...
View ArticleOctober 6 roundup
Woman who escaped first WTC bombing broke her ankle ten days later. Should New York’s Port Authority pay her $500,000? [Hochfelder] Former New York congressman and Pace Law School dean Richard...
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