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The Sweets retained Alan Sherry and filed a suit for malpractice against the physicians and the hospital. The Sweets lost and, moreover, the physicians and hospital were awarded compensation of $150,000 for the physicians' legal expenses and $150,000 for the hospital's legal expenses by the trial court,<ref name="hammond2008" /> which were upheld by the Alaska Supreme Court.<ref>''[http://www.touchngo.com/sp/html/sp-4200.htm Sweet v. Sisters of Providence in Washington]'', 893 p.2d 1252 (Ala. Sup. Ct., April 14, 1995)</ref>
The Sweets then discovered that Sherry had misrepresented himself as an expert in malpractice proceedings. They then retained Mark Johnson of the Seattle legal and medical malpractice law firm of [https://www.johnsonflora.com/ Johnson Flora] to sue Alan Sherry. The Sherry law firm agreed to settle out of court for an undisclosed amount of damages.<ref>{{REFnews
|title=Betrayed by Doctors and Lawyers in Alaska, Sweets Find Justice Through Seattle Malpractice Attorney
|url=http://www.cirp.org/news/2000.03.08_Sweet/
|date=2000-03-08
|accessdate=2020-06-19
|quote=To me the Sweets are heroic figures,'' Johnson said. ``In order to right a terrible wrong — the catastrophic injury to their son — they confronted two of society's most powerful institutions: the medical system and the legal system. They fought for 13 years until they prevailed.
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