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Not valid in combination with other discount offers or coupons. One coupon per order, please. Good at participating Mr. Gatti’s. Sat 11 a.m. Sun 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. HURRY! Expires 04-18-95 □ Members of two law suit abuse groups have been involved in more than 250 suits. HOUSTON (AP) — Board members of two tort-reform groups lobbying the Legislature have been involved in more than 250 civil lawsuits in Harris Coun ty since 1978, The Houston Post reported Wednesday. Texans For Lawsuit Reform and Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse want the laws rewritten to reduce lawsuits, protect busi nesses and lower awards, mem bers say. On Tuesday, state lawmakers limited punitive damages to twice actual damages up to $750,000. A half-dozen other bills that would affect medical malpractice suits, change the Deceptive Trade f¥ac- tices Act, cut back on venue shop* ping and limit “deep-pocket" awards await final votes. But C. Sterling Cornelius, CALA’s sometime chairman of the board, doesn't regard his own $100 million lawsuit as an exam ple of the kind of frivolous suits he’s fighting. The owner of Cornelius Nurs eries Inc. and Turkey Creek Farms Inc. in Houston filed suit in 1993 against E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., claiming that its fungicide damaged the 1991 poinsettia crop and the entire nursery. The fungicide, Benlate, was removed from the market in March 1991. Cornelius’ companies also are suing four distributor companies in the case. The suit asks $26.1 million in actual damages, including costs to rebuild the nursery and the farm, which continue to do business. Cornelius also asked for punitive damages of $75.3 mil lion under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act as well as addi tional punitive damages, ac cording to court records. “I think the claims are without merit,” said Du Pont lawyer Ger ald Bracht. Under the newly enacted re forms, most of what Cornelius is seeking would be ruled out. But, because his suit was filed before passage of the bill Tues day, Cornelius is not subject to the new limits. “I’m not against lawsuits, I’m against unreasonable ver dicts,” said Cornelius, whose group has released business- owner surveys that suggest fear of lawsuits is prompting owners to hire fewer people. Stick NEW POSITI Hi i Hi. Lr~LTL 0(5“ r \ r P ° Hi L Hi! Mil hi ! IS# ASC 4/11/15 4^// By Alvaro WHAT5 GOIW6 OKI ? 16 THIS A „TOKE ? Adventijufs iiv Aggielaivu By Greg X HAD A COMIC ALAEAOy DRAWW UP FOR TDDAV WHICH HAD A WHOLE MESS OF HINTS AND EXPLANATIONS AS TO WHY X CHOSE THE NAME'SVSON F|BSS FOR MY MAIN CARTOON CHARACTER. 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(DVotunteers tleeded(D to begin service in the Summer OR the Fall Semester. Summer training will take place the first week of June. *** INTERVIEWING NOW *** Applications available in Room 104 Henderson Hall. *** Application DEADLINE is THURSDAY, APRIL 20 *«* For further information call Ms. Susan Yavra at 845-4427 ext. 133 Texas A&M University has a strong institutional commitment to the principle of diversity in all areas. In that spirit, admission to Texas A&M University and any of its sponsored programs is open to all qualified individuals without regarato any subgroup, class or stereotype. Xhe Battalion is now accepting applications for Summer 1995 and Fall 1995 for ALL POSITIONS Reporters • Columnists • Feature Writers Sportswriters • Photographers Graphic Artists • Page Designers Cartoonists • Copy Editors • Office Clerks NO JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE NECESSARY - ALL MAJORS SHOULD APPLY- Come by 013 Reed McDonald for an application, or pick one up around campus. Call 845-3313 if you have any questions. Bad blood in Simpson trial □ A criminalist admits that blood evidence wasn't refrigerated properly. LOS ANGELES (AP) - On a hot June day, crucial blood samples in the O.J. Simpson murder investigation sat in plastic bags inside an evidence truck for seven hours because the truck’s refrigerator didn’t work, an evidence collector ad mitted Wednesday. Criminalist Dennis Fung's testimony, which gave the de fense yet another opening to make its case that blood evi dence was tainted, proceeded with jurors presumably un aware of an escalating investi gation into a dismissed pan elist’s claims of jury problems. Superior Court Judge Lance Ito scheduled a private session Wednesday with the ousted ju ror, Jeanette Harris, and indi cated he would question the 12 jurors and six remaining alter nates about an alleged incident of kicking in the jury box. According to the transcript of a sidebar conference Tues day, the judge told attorneys he thought the kick seemed more like a stumble and amounted to “something so trivial to be unbelievable.” Ito prodded defense attorney Barry Scheck on Wednesdays conclude his questioning of Fung but failed to derail Scheck’s exceedingly detailed cross-examination of his ac tions after Nicole Brown Simp son and Ronald Goldman were killedJune 12, 1994. In his fifth day on the stand, Fung said he began putting blood swatches in plastic bags at 11:30 a.m. on the sunny day after the slayings and stored the samples in his crime-scene truck. “And it was hot in that truck?” Scheck asked. "It was getting warm,” Fung conceded. “And you did not begin to take those blood stains out of the plastic bags until 6:30 that evening?” Scheck asked. “Yes,” Fung replied. Asked if the truck had a re frigerator, Fung said it did but he didn’t use it. “The refrigera tor stops working after several hours,” he explained. Meanwhile, the transcript of Tuesday’s sidebar showed the defense continued to press for action on jury issues Harris raised in her interviews with reporters last week. “I think you should not un derestimate this,” defense at torney Johnnie Cochran Jr. warned Ito. “If people have the perception that you are not in terested in doing anything about it, I’m telling you that I believe it will result in further problems.” The judge seemed unim pressed by the incident de scribed by Harris, who is black, in which she said a white juror purposely kicked her and stomped on the foot of another another black juror while getting into the jury box. “I must tell you ... that peo ple being outraged and offend ed by somebody perhaps cross ing over them and inadvertent ly hitting them — I mean, this initially struck me as some thing so trivial to be unbeliev able,” Ito said. ATTENTION ON-CAMPUS RESIDENTS!!! 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