{"id":36311,"date":"2009-03-25T13:16:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T20:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=36311"},"modified":"2009-03-25T13:16:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T20:16:55","slug":"china-court-accepts-first-lawsuit-over-melamine-tainted-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/03\/china-court-accepts-first-lawsuit-over-melamine-tainted-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"China Court Accepts First Lawsuit Over Melamine Tainted Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite reports that families were being <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/03\/chinas-milk-victims-complain-of-intimidation\/\">pressured to drop milk lawsuits<\/a>, one family has seen its case go through. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSPEK343300\">From <strong>Xinhua<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  The Xinhua District Court in Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, accepted the lawsuit Wednesday. It was filed by an un-named parent from Beijing, confirmed Wang Wei, spokesman with the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People&#8217;s Court.<\/p>\n<p>    It is the first compensation lawsuit- tied to the dairy scandal- accepted in China.<\/p>\n<p>    Lawyer Peng Jian said his plaintiff demanded a compensation of 31,000 yuan (4,538 U.S. dollars) from Sanlu Group, a Shijiazhuang-based company that was at the center of China&#8217;s melamine scandal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite reports that families were being pressured to drop milk lawsuits, one family has seen its case go through. From Xinhua: The Xinhua District Court in Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, accepted the lawsuit Wednesday. It was filed by an un-named parent from Beijing, confirmed Wang Wei, spokesman with the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People&#8217;s Court. 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