These cover civil cases including those involving social welfare debt, employment, family problems, clinical negligence, divorce and housing problems.

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The DoJ said last year in a memo filed to the court in New Orleans hearing the civil case over the spill that it planned to prove BP had acted with "gross negligence or wilful misconduct" that had caused the accident.

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Mohammed Osman, head of the Luxor's Tourism Chamber, blamed civil aviation authorities, who are in charge of licensing and inspecting balloons, accusing them of negligence.

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In October a U.S. District Court judge dismissed civil fraud complaints against them. (Bergstrom still faces one fraud complaint.) The two have negligence claims to deal with.

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