"When I saw Pete Seeger playing the banjo it completely changed my life, " Connolly tells CNN.
But Seeger tried a second case against German wallboard manufacturer and distributor Knauff, which ended in mid-March.
As source material, they used old 78rpm discs, archives from the Library of Congress and Seeger's own recordings.
"I'm sad for the Humestons, " says Chis Seeger of Seeger Weiss, the plaintiff attorney in the New Jersey case.
The plaintiffs in the Sears case are represented by Lieff Cabraser, Seeger Weiss and the Complex Litigation Group in Chicago.
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He began collecting material on a tape recorder when he was 20, starting with the Seeger family's maid, Elizabeth Cotten, a self-taught guitarist.
Knauff tried to intervene in the Taishan case and argue for lower remediation requirements, Seeger said, but withdrew the day before trial began.
Jennifer Seeger, who survived the attack, said she had seen the man and thought his get-up was part of the entertainment for the film's debut.
Seeger said there are several trials tentatively scheduled for mid-June.
He also enlists banjo-playing brothers Pete and Mike Seeger and picks up inspired support from The Chieftains' Paddy Moloney, jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris and his own son, drummer Joachim Cooder.
Even though little direct evidence survives, stories about Ms Yai Damrongthammasan have been passed down generations from people who knew and met her - attesting, Dr Seeger says, to her charisma.
Seeger, the lawyer in New Jersey, says he is energized to show the world that trial lawyers who sue big companies have an important role in holding companies like Merck accountable.
Seeger said he and other lawyers involved in the multi-district litigation have 7, 000 cases teed up, and he figures another 20, 000 homes might have sulfurous wallboard that needs to come out.
Those cases were being argued by Christopher Seeger of Seeger Weiss, the same lawyer who is currently arguing the second case related to Vioxx, the withdrawn Merck painkiller, in Atlantic City, N.
However, Ms Yai Damrongthammasan never claimed authorship of the book and Dr Seeger says "the real reason that Khunying Yai decided to omit her name from the first edition might never be known".
There was only one other woman who in 1928 wrote a similar text but she was a princess and Dr Seeger says it does not achieve the same level of profundity as this work.
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, all kitted out in Aran sweaters knitted by Mrs Clancy, triumphantly rode the wave of a folk revival that was turning Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie into stars.
Later, through his radio broadcasts in the 1940s, Lomax helped bring wide exposure to such American folk icons as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and continued making field recordings throughout the Caribbean, Ireland, Scotland and Spain.
Those cases were being argued by Christopher Seeger of Seeger Weiss, the same lawyer who is currently arguing the second case related to Vioxx, the withdrawn Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) painkiller, in Atlantic City, N.
"Instead of protecting the health of its players, the NFL's response to this epidemic of brain injuries was to engage in a campaign of deceit and deception, actively concealing the risks players faced from repetitive impacts, " said Christopher Seeger and Sol Weiss, co-lead counsels for the former players.
And I started playing the 12-string guitar after really hearing Pete Seeger play and recording things like "Tambourine Man" with Jim McGuinn(ph), Roger McGuinn(ph), and so this guitar - I'm so glad you asked about this guitar because this is patterned after a D-40, a Martin D-35 that I played for years, and it's my signature Judy Collins Martin guitar.
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