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WASHINGTON--Sources say Baltimore attorney Peter Angelos will drop an $800 million mobile-phone brain cancer lawsuit but will continue to press ahead with class-action lawsuits to force the wireless industry to supply consumers with radiation-reducing headsets, a development that could have a chilling effect on future heath-related litigation.
"I can't make comments about my client ... I just can't talk about it," said John Pica, an attorney at the Angelos law firm who is intricately involved in mobile-phone cancer and headset lawsuits.
Earlier this year, Angelos, owner of the Baltimore Orioles and a powerful trial attorney who has won hundreds of millions of dollars suing asbestos and tobacco manufacturers, took control of legal representation of 41-year-old neurologist Christopher Newman from Baltimore attorney Joanne Suder. Newman has brain cancer and his lawsuit alleges that heavy...
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