Klarinet Archive - Posting 001119.txt from 1998/01

From: BKruse@-----.com
Subj: Bad news for clarinetists
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:20:22 -0500

Steer clear of Judge Edmundo Lellis Filho and pray that he's wrong. This
story comes via the WhiteBoard News for Friday, January 23, 1998

Barry Kruse

Sao Paulo, Brazil:
An injured worker who was denied compensation after a
court ruled that pinkie fingers would disappear with
evolution anyway has won his appeal, a newspaper
reported Thursday.
An appeals court awarded Valdir Martins Pozza a
lifetime payment equal to 30 percent of his salary as a
machine operator, the job he held when he injured his
little finger in 1993, the Folha de Sao Paulo said.
"The healthy human body has no disposable parts," Judge
Celso Pimentel said in his ruling, the paper reported.
Pozza filed for compensation after a grindstone broke a
tendon in his little finger. A court-appointed doctor
said the accident resulted in his loss of manual
dexterity.
But Judge Edmundo Lellis Filho rejected the medical
findings and said Pozza didn't qualify for benefits.
"The pinkie serves little use for the hand and ... is
considered an appendage that tends to disappear with
the evolution of the human species," Lellis Filho said
in his decision last March.
Pozza was fired by the factory last year and now works
at a bus company.
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