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The allegations in this lawsuit are incredible.

Jane Wu was a decades-long medical researcher at Northwestern University
School of Medicine in Chicago. During the first Trump administration and
the Biden administration, she was named as a target of an investigation
into industrial espionage by China using scientists at American
universities that had been born in China. But apparently her guilt was
by association only. Her life was ruined. Her department never backed
her up, took away her lab, which made her ineligible to obtain grants in future. As a large portion of her salary was paid from grants, her pay
was drastically reduced.

Then, there was a forced psychiatric admission; her suicide followed
shortly thereafter.

Her estate is suing for wrongful death, holding the university
responsible. It's represented by Thomas Geoghegan, a well-known P.I. and workman's comp attorney.

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In article <104eacq$2ahhk$1@dont-email.me>,
Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

The allegations in this lawsuit are incredible.

Which of the many senses of the word "incredible" do you intend?
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Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

The allegations in this lawsuit are incredible.

Which of the many senses of the word "incredible" do you intend?

Which of these is the crazier bit of right wing lunacy?
1) We've just had another mass shooting; now is not the time to be
talking about gun control.

2) We've just had a massive hurricane; now is not the time to be talking >about climate change.

For fuck's sake, Kenny. The allegations in the lawsuit are that it was a wrongful death as she was driven to suicide.

Now is the right time to express sympathy for her.

Her date of death was 7/10/2024.
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In article <104ecs9$2ahhk$2@dont-email.me>,
Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

The allegations in this lawsuit are incredible.

Which of the many senses of the word "incredible" do you intend?

(sig quote deleted - it was randomly generated; don't read too much into it)

For fuck's sake, Kenny. The allegations in the lawsuit are that it was a >wrongful death as she was driven to suicide.

Settle down. Nothing to get excited about here.
Seriously, I wasn't implying anything one way or the other.

Just making a linguistic quibble - that there are several senses in which
the word "incredible" can be interpreted and I was (genuinely) curious as
to in which sense you intended it.

Now is the right time to express sympathy for her.

Yes. But what if she really is guilty (None of us really knows, least of
all me) ?

It does raise some interesting legal questions, though. Suppose I get so pissed off after a cop gives me a speeding ticket, that I crash into a
wall on the way home. Does my estate sue for that? How far does it go?

Her date of death was 7/10/2024.

Right. I hope Bob is OK with that.
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In the previous article, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

The allegations in this lawsuit are incredible.

There are no spineless weasels like academic spineless weasels. Even politicians and bureaucrats take a back seat to them. They'll cut and
run at the first hint of a threat to their -- to borrow from Mel
Brooks -- phoney-baloney jobs. Nothing in that story surprises me the
tiniest little bit.
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Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

It does raise some interesting legal questions, though. Suppose I get so pissed off after a cop gives me a speeding ticket, that I crash into a
wall on the way home. Does my estate sue for that? How far does it go?

At least in that case you were hypothetically breaking the law.

This particular case appears to be another example of scum
destroying a life simply for the sheer joy of it combined
with fatal timidity.

But I say that on the *assumption* that the estate is suing because
they truly feel they have nothing to hide.
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