1. Police departments enjoy a limited immunity from lawsuits. 2. The director of public prosecutions has given the driver in the Purley train crash limited immunity from charges. 3. At that point, prosecutors could ask a judge to grant her limited immunity. 4. Billions of dollars in potential jury awards if tobacco makers persuade Congress to give them limited immunity from lawsuits in return for accepting increased regulation of the industry. 5. -- The Federal Election Commission lost in a bid for at least limited immunity from a general five-year federal statute of limitations. 6. A group representing small travel agencies will ask the U.S. Congress to give them limited antitrust immunity to bargain collectively with the airline industry. 7. But Huang has asked for limited immunity for violating election laws and may not appear before the panel. 8. But late Wednesday the Justice Department indicated it would not be willing to approve an offer of limited immunity to Huang, dimming the chances that he would appear. 9. But the court questioned whether Starr based his case on records that Hubbell supplied under the limited immunity grant. 10. Critics of the proposed settlement accused the companies of trying to hold Congress hostage with threats that they would continue targeting teenagers if they are not granted limited immunity. |
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