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Taking a Crack at the CIA!
Posted by FoM on April 08, 1999 at 09:29:35 PT
Suit seeks link between agency and drug epidemic! 
Source: Cal Law
Oakland attorneys William Simpich Jr. and Katya Komisaruk have taken on their share of long-shot cases and won. But their most recent -- a federal class action that would hold the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Justice liable for the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s -- makes their previous battles look easy. 
Simpich and Komisaruk don't seem worried by the suggestion that they are tilting at windmills. "People said that about the tobacco litigation -- they said no one can sue Philip Morris," Simpich says. But then damning private industry documents were made public, he says, "and there was no stopping those suits. I think the same thing can happen here." The attorneys -- who are gearing up to file related tort claims -- compare their cause to the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. Interesting article! Click the above link for the complete story!
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