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...Paula Coughlin, a former Navy lieutenant who claimed she was sexually assaulted at a 1991 convention of Navy flyers, settled for an undisclosed amount with the convention's sponsor, the Tailhook Association. Earlier in the week, a Nevada judge had ruled that a Pentagon report on the scandal was not reliable enough to be used as evidence...
Former Navy Lieut. Paula Coughlin's lawsuit against the Las Vegas Hilton--where she claims she was groped during the 1991 Tailhook convention--went to trial today. She unexpectedly settled with Tailhook, an organization of naval aviators, last Friday; but the deal with the hotel fell through. She is seeking an unspecified sum from the Hilton Hotel Corp. for negligence. Jury selection began today in a court case that is expected to last five weeks...
...lawsuit brought by a woman who claims she was sexually harassed at the gathering, a federal judge has ruled. The ruling found that the report was based on hearsay and is not trustworthy enough to be used in the courtroom. "This is a blow for Navy Lieut. Paula Coughlin (who has filed the lawsuit)," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "You came away from the report thinking she was completely the victim." But adds Thompson: the report "was never intended to stand up to legal standards -- it was just trying to tell the story of what happened...
...really miss him," junior captain-electBen Coughlin said. "He was very valuable in histwo years here, and we wish him nothing but thebest of luck. But we're confident that Tripp andHermsy [junior Steve Hermsdorf] can get the jobdone...
WASHINGTON -- Admiral Frank Kelso, his pension intact, isn't the only naval officer retiring in the wake of the Tailhook scandal. Lieut. Paula Coughlin, the pilot whose charges of sexual assault launched the official investigation, is leaving the service next week, bitter because she feels her complaints were ultimately brushed off. Adding insult to injury, the Navy's personnel bureau had been claiming she owed it nearly $19,000 of a prepaid pilot bonus that she now cannot "earn" because she is leaving four years ahead of schedule. But the Navy, worried about how Kelso's and Coughlin...