verdicts

Prosecution: The Web Planet–early Who’s Weakest Hour

March 14, 2012 02:42

Last week and during my vacation, my good pal Mith and I got together for gaming, good company, and something we’d been planning for some time: we sat down for a Whoathon of epic proportions. We watched a good 24 episodes of consecutive Hartnell Who plus sundry special features, including...

Mithradates reviews The Aztecs

March 12, 2012 03:37

Early Who tried to rotate between “historical” and “sci-fi” episodes, something foreign to this Who watcher for whom actual time-traveling into the past was a rarity for Doctors 3-5 (although this has thankfully been revived for the new episodes). So after visiting the...

Mithradates reviews Keys of Marinus

March 12, 2012 03:00

Fresh from their visit to medieval China, the travelers come to Marinus. There they uncover a complex mystery: a strange structure with no obvious entrance; a sea of acid, and several minisubs piloted by humanoids in wetsuits — the Voord. This sets up the frame story for the plot, which reads...

Andrew M. Hale & Associates Wins Police Trial - Jury Rejects Excessive Force Claim

March 09, 2012 16:45

 After a very brief deliberation, a federal jury rejected plaintiff Antoine McMillan's excessive force claim. After being convicted of robbery in 2009, McMillan sued Chicago Police Detective Kevin Stoll, one of the arresting officers, alleging that Stoll dislocated McMillan's wrist during...

$167 Million Employee Rights Verdict Awarded By Federal Jury in Sacramento

March 07, 2012 00:30

Ani Coupourian sued her employer, Catholic Healtcare West (now "Dignity Health"), for sexual harassment and retaliation.  The resulting $167 million verdict, obtained by Sacarmento Trial Lawyer Lawrance Bohm, is thought to be the biggest of its kind in the U.S.  The verdict included $125...