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Here's the story according to VTX...
Associated Press Fri 28-MAR-1986 08:37 Psychic Suit
Woman Awarded $1 Million In Lawsuit Over Impaired Psychic Powers
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A woman who claimed a CAT scan she received
at a hospital in 1976 made her unable to use her psychic powers has
been awarded $988,000 by a jury.
The eight-member Common Pleas Court jury deliberated about 45
minutes Thursday before awarding Judith Richardson Haimes $600,000
plus $388,000 in interest on her malpractice claim against Temple
University Hospital.
Ms. Haimes, 42, contended an allergic reaction to a dye injected
during the exam gave her severe, recurring headaches that forced
her to give up her practice in New Castle, Del., two months later.
Before the test, she said, she was able to read auras, conduct
seances, observe the past and the future and help police solve
crimes.
Judge Leon Katz had instructed the jury not to consider Haimes'
assertion about her psychic powers and her loss of business in
weighing the suit.
Instead, he told jurors that if they found the hospital
negligent in giving the CAT scan, they should consider only the
damages related to the immediate allergic reaction, which included
nausea, welts and hives.
After the verdict, hospital attorney Richard R. Galli argued
that the jury had disregarded the judge's instructions and asked
Katz to set aside the verdict. The judge gave him 10 days to submit
written arguments.
Ms. Haimes' attorney, Joel M. Lieberman said the jury ``was
intelligent enough to understand the judge's instructions, and I
think they followed them.''
``What was done to this lady was an outrage,'' he said. ``I
personally think that there is a guideline every jury follows:
Consider what would they pay not to go through the same experience
for one minute.''
Ms. Haimes, who underwent the CAT scan as part of a search for
the cause of recurring tumors, had introduced testimony from three
law-enforcement officers who said she had helped them solve crimes
with her psychic powers.
A CAT scan is a sophisticated form of X-ray that enables doctors
to see cross sections of the body.
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