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Litigation

Mar. 8, 2011

Metrolink Victims Make Case for Cash

Beginning this month, victims of the deadly 2008 Chatsworth Metrolink crash will formally ask a judge to give them a slice of a $200 million settlement that they and their attorneys believe is woefully inadequate.


By Ciaran McEvoy


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - Over the course of the next two months, a procession of victims will stream in and out of Department 4 at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, perhaps asking themselves how their tragic tale compares with the person before them.


Only the judge presiding over the settlement in the Chatsworth Metrolink disaster will know.


Starting this month, Superior Court Judg...

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