If so, the lower court might consider splitting the class action in half, so the question of liability can be determined first, followed by another trial on whether the discrimination was so bad as to merit punitives.

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But Chesley managed to delay his day of reckoning by splitting the Bar Association action against him off from the other lawyers.

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In action scenes, Griffith bluntly thrust his camera close to raw physical reality, whether at hammered wedges splitting logs or grasslands cruelly rutted by war wagons.

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