Word: countersuit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million claim that the McClatchy-owned Sacramento Bee libeled him in a 1983 story about a Carson City casino-hotel his family once owned, the former Nevada Senator declared that pretrial investigations found no evidence of illegal skimming. And while Bee President-Editor C.K. McClatchy dropped a $6 million countersuit, he maintained that his paper had never reported there had been skimming -- only that IRS agents suspected it. Said he: "We have not retracted, we have not apologized, and we have not paid any damages." Laxalt, who admitted that the prospect of a trial had hindered campaign fund raising...
...university followed with a countersuit, stating that the magazine did not have the right to use the "Yale" name because most of its contributors were non-students. The magazine has solicited outside contributions ever since Navrozov's purchase in 1978, and its present editorial policy is generally considered very conservative...
Artie answered right back with 28 pages of tart countersuit. Kathleen, he charged, had refused to bear children ("Children have always enslaved women") and had even suggested an operation which, as the N.Y. Daily News gleefully phrased it, would have made him "forever sterile." And anyway, he added, neither of their Mexican divorces was legal, and so he figures that he is still the lawful wedded husband...
...Johnson with using unauthorized police powers and other infractions. Murray, an unemployed salesman who likes to do all his own legal work, also filed a series of 100-year liens against the property and financial assets of Johnson and his wife. In retaliation, the Johnsons not only filed a countersuit to remove the liens, but sought damages...
Pillsbury responded in November with a countersuit charging that Jeno's had actually copied a Pillsbury package design. After Jeno's agreed to change its box, Pillsbury last month filed a second suit claiming patent infringement by Jeno's and pointing out that Jeno's new design copies yet another Pillsbury package. Fumed Jeno's crusty founder, Jeno Paulucci, 63, as the pizza war dragged...