Word: countersuit
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Inevitably, the wave of claims has stirred up anti-Indian hostility. "We are bitter," says George Benway, chairman of the selectmen of Mashpee, Mass., one besieged town on Cape Cod. In a combative spirit sardonically known as "whitelash," the Town of Mashpee has filed a countersuit against the Wampanoag tribe -demanding $200 million as the cost of all accrued improvements'if the Wampanoags should win their claim to much of the town's property...
...been required to reduce chances of a serious oil spill. Last year a Ketchbaw employee charged that there had been falsification of some tests. The pipeline consortium investigated the charges, decided that they had substance, and brought a suit against Ketchbaw. Ketchbaw denies falsification and has filed a countersuit...
...records of the magazine. The reason given was to prevent another shutdown scheduled for the middle of May; but Parkhurst feels the attempt's real purpose was to discover sources used in an article detailing certain questionable connections between Attorney General William Saxbe and the Teamsters. Overdrive filed a countersuit against Saxbe alleging possible violations of Constitutional rights, and the case was dropped...
...process in the hurried head chopping. The budget cuts were recommended, not ordered, he notes, "and there has been no granting of hearings, no effort to try to keep faculty on." The A.A.U.P. has condemned the firings and retained a lawyer for the defendants, but as yet no countersuit has been filed...
...court found that Telex was far from blameless in its own business practices. In a countersuit, IBM was awarded $21.9 million for losses suffered in the theft of computer secrets by Telex, which was forbidden for the next two years to hire ex-IBM employees without court approval. Yet IBM, whose mighty stock shot down 38% points to 259½ in the two trading days following the decision's announcement, had experienced a rare defeat that might grow even more serious in months to come...