Perhaps he would have bought a new suit himself, and then somewhere along the line someone else would have purchased new windows.

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As with scandals, each new lawsuit erodes old inhibitions against filing new ones: the target of one suit seizes the opportunity to file another suit himself, in order to get even.

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"Unless they canceled court, I had to be here, " said Davis, who was wearing a hooded slicker over his suit to shield himself from gobs of snow blown from trees.

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