"Nobody has yet to collect from a successful lawsuit in any of the 10 tampering deaths in this decade," said Chris Otorowski, a Seattle lawyer.

"My stomach has been in a knot for two weeks at the thought of doing this," Bartlett, a 47-year-old Seattle lawyer, said.

"People would have to have a certain tolerance for complexity," said Ms. Simchuk, the Seattle lawyer.

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"He came out 35 pounds lighter, acting like a zombie," said his mother, Michele Ziperovich, a Seattle lawyer.

Peter Sutherland, a Seattle lawyer, hoped for a muscle enhancer that did not use steroids.

Bruce E. H. Johnson, a Seattle lawyer who is an expert in commercial-speech law, said the suit raised serious questions.

"There was a fair amount of denial going on," said State Senator Phil Talmadge, a Seattle lawyer.

But Kathryn Tucker, a Seattle lawyer and co-author of the initiative, said the measure seeks to expand a person's freedom of choice.

Daniel P. Danilov, a Seattle lawyer who specializes in immigration, said he and the captain had an amiable dialogue about defection.