Yesterday, a lawsuit in which Sherley is co-plaintiff threw other stem cell researchers into turmoil.

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He and co-plaintiff Angela Brent, whose Knoxville casket store was ordered closed in May, are represented by Washington, D.

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Orton and a co-plaintiff seek to represent other investors in a class-action lawsuit.

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Among other factors, UT argued that the claim was moot because both Ms. Fisher and her co-plaintiff had since attended or graduated from other schools.

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For whistleblowers the key is to enlist the government--with its power to subpoena defendants and deprive a company of contracts before a case has been decided--as co-plaintiff.

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Phillips ran it out of his own offices early on and required his clients to make the taxpayer group a co-plaintiff in their whistleblower suits as a way to fund the antifraud crusade.

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United States Department of Treasury, et al., was brought by AFLC Co-Founders and Senior Counsel David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise on behalf of plaintiff Kevin Murray, a taxpayer and former combat Marine who served in Iraq.

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