Court orders damages paid to Japan poisoning victims
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TOKYO -- Japan's top court ordered the government yesterday to pay $703,000 in damages to victims of the Minamata mercury poisoning, 22 years after their famous case was filed over an industrial pollution disaster that killed more than 1,700 people and caused diseased mothers to give birth to deformed babies.
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A federal judge in Washington has ordered Libya and six of its officials to pay more than $6 billion in damages to families of seven Americans killed in the 1989 bombing of a French airliner, lawyers for the families said in a statement late on Tuesday.
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Dozens more people in Japan on Thursday said they fell sick after eating Chinese-made food, a day after Japanese food companies recalled pesticide-contaminated dumplings from China that sickened 10 people.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Jan. 30--TOKYO -- The Tokyo District Court ordered Canon Inc. on Tuesday  to pay 33.52 million yen to a former Canon researcher for inventing technology  to prevent images produced by laser printers from deteriorating.
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A Japanese court has taken the rare step of demanding punishment for lawyers of the doomsday cult guru behind the 1995 subway attack, blaming them for delays in the emotionally charged trial.
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Hundreds of Japanese who contracted hepatitis C from tainted blood products hammered out a deal with legislators Friday that includes a government apology and monetary compensation.
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A lawsuit brought by victims and   families of suicide bombings in Israel seeking damages from   Royal Bank of Scotland Plc's NatWest claiming the unit   knowingly provided services to a charity linked to Hamas can   proceed, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
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Tokyo, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)--Japan Post said Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit against Livedoor Co., demanding some 1.04 billion yen in damages for losses it incurred from its investment in the scandal- tainted Internet firm.  As of Jan.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo Tokyo, Feb.
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Aramark Corp. RMK.N on Thursday said  a New Jersey jury ordered it to pay $105 million in damages for  serving alcohol to a fan at a football game who was involved in  a car accident that crippled a toddler.
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An international court has  ordered Guatemala to pay a record sum of almost $8 million in  compensation to survivors of a 1982 army-led massacre of  hundreds of civilians in the country's Maya Indian heartland.
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A court rejected a compensation suit filed against the Japanese government by 40 Japanese who were abandoned in China as children after Tokyo's defeat in World War II, officials said Tuesday.
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A company that made contaminated pet food that killed dozens of dogs nationwide will pay $3.1 million in a settlement with pet owners, an attorney said Friday.
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A group of Japanese who sued the government and drug makers after being infected with potentially deadly hepatitis C from tainted blood products rejected a court-proposed settlement on Thursday.
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Victim's fight could make legal history by extending the deadline for sufferers to seek compensation.
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A company that made contaminated pet food that killed dozens of dogs nationwide will pay $3.1 million in a settlement with pet owners, an attorney said Friday
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A Fraser Valley man has been awarded &#36;296,000 in damages in a malpractice suit related to his appendectomy.