Miscellaneous

"Suing the Smoker Next Door"

By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent

Galila Huff, who says she regrets her chain-smoking habit, has been hauled to court and asked to pay punitive damages: "Her neighbors, Jonathan Selbin, a class-action lawyer who has honed his skills suing major corporations, and his wife, Jenny Selbin, also a lawyer, are irate over the cigarette smoke that they say seeps from Ms. Huff?s apartment into the common hallway of their building, the elegant Beaux-Arts Ansonia, on Broadway between 73rd and 74th Streets." (Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, Feb. 9).

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