NEW YORK: COLUMBIA FACES SUIT OVER FOOD-POISONING TEST.Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. and an assistant professor at its business school face a libel suit by six restaurant owners who claim they were damaged by letters falsely claiming food poisoning food poisoning, acute illness following the eating of foods contaminated by bacteria, bacterial toxins, natural poisons, or harmful chemical substances. It was once customary to classify all such illnesses as "ptomaine poisoning," but it was later discovered that in an experiment to see how businesses respond to complaints. But the plaintiffs cannot seek punitive damages Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the individual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer. because, although the project was "ill-considered," the teacher hadn't acted maliciously, the appellate division of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Supreme Court ruled. The restaurants were among 240 recipients of letters Francis J. Flynn sent in August 2001 as part of a study. The letters claimed he and his wife had been served a dinner that made them violently ill. They sued for a total of $100 million. |
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