{"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":"
Despite reports that families were being pressured to drop milk lawsuits<\/a>, one family has seen its case go through. From Xinhua<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n 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’s Court.<\/p>\n It is the first compensation lawsuit- tied to the dairy scandal- accepted in China.<\/p>\n 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’s melamine scandal. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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’s Court. It is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[2475,7252,7289],"class_list":["post-36311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-society","tag-lawsuits","tag-milk-contamination","tag-shijiazhuang","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n