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Pryce Institute Found Liable in Experiment Gone Wrong


-Planet Los Angeles, California, Liberty

The Superior Court of Whilshire District announced its verdict yesterday, finding The Pryce Institute for Advanced Scientific Research and its administration culpable in the deaths of fifteen of its staff, after an accident occurred during the testing of experimental equipment in late February this year. The Court sited the Institutes' failure to adequately implement certain safeguards which might have prevented the accident, and also the Institutes' negligence in properly responding to the emergency. The Court awarded damages of five hundred million credits to the plantiffs, and ordered all of the Institutes' vessels be grounded, till they can be subjected to safety inspections to ensure compliance with existing regulations; additionally, and perhaps most damaging to the defendants, was the seizure of several patents held by the Institute, which are said to include a number of valuable inventions and technologies. The presiding Judge, the Honourable Thomas C. Howell, was quoted as saying,


"The level of negligence here defies belief, that this scientific institution could be so careless with the lives of its staff. If I had my way, you would be shut down completely, else you endanger more innocent people with your experiments."


Ms. Yolanda Hannigan, whose brother was killed in the accident said,
"This isn't enough. They took our loved ones away, and they're still walking around free. They're worse than Rhinelanders."


Representatives for the Pryce Institute refused to comment.


The verdict comes at a bad time for the Institute, which is also under investigation over the deaths of two additional employees, in a seperate incident earlier this year.

-Reginald Burkle, Correspondent

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