PHILADELPHIA AP – A federal appeals court, ruling in a case linked to the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, blasted a Texas company that offers lump-sum advances to plaintiffs who settle lawsuits.
The settlement stemmed from a lawsuit filed against the city for allowing its police officers to drop a bomb on the inner city compound of the anti-establishment group MOVE. Birdie Africa, then 13, was one of only two people to survive the bombing, which killed his mother and 10 others.