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Minutes before the Federal courthouse in Little Rock, Ark., closed for the Fourth of July holiday, attorney Bob Bennett filed the defendant's answer in the matter of Jones v. Clinton. The President's lawyer is no longer out to bury the case, he says, but to win it. Smelling trouble for Jones, Bennett is talking witnesses and affidavits these days, not negotiations or settlements. In his answer to Jones' complaint, he denied her charges and asked the court to dismiss the case. Failing that, he requested a conference to set a trial date. "There's no dragging this...
...Bill Clinton suddenly demanding his day in court? Not quite. Bennett's new commitment to swift justice may be all for show; most observers still expect the case to be settled out of court. But Bennett's talk of a trial date is a clear sign that the ground is shifting beneath the Jones camp. The tremors began two weeks ago with another high-profile piece of reporting by Stuart Taylor in Legal Times. Taylor's story, and a follow-up article by the New Yorker's Jane Mayer, attacks Jones' credibility by suggesting that her account of what happened...
LITTLE ROCK: After years of delaying actions until a recent Supreme Court ruling that Paula Jones could proceed with her sexual harassment case, President Clinton's lawyer Bob Bennett has abruptly changed course and come out swinging. Late Thursday he asked an Arkansas court to hold a conference to set a trial date and filed the first formal response to the suit, in which Clinton said he did not remember ever meeting Jones and denied her claim he harassed her during an Arkansas state economic conference. Covering all the legal bases, the filing said that even if Clinton did meet...
...stable ones. There will be no penalty for forcible sex acts committed on women who are married but estranged from their husbands, who have recently quarreled with their husbands or who are happily married yet appear to be "asking for it." (The Commander in Chief's personal attorney, Robert Bennett, is available to determine whether the plaintiff's hairstyle, skirt length, etc., constituted a criminal provocation...
...BENNETT Every time he's on TV, Paula's price goes up 100 grand...