Word: courting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Margaret H. Marshall, A. Paul Cellucci's controversial nominee for chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), commissioned an internal investigation which some say mishandled discrimination charges, according to University documents...
Marshall wrote the court's majority opinion in a separate case that made it more difficult for plaintiffs to receive large amounts of money in punitive damages. As a result of the ruling, the damages awarded in Harvard's case were...
...battle is raging in the courts too. An age-discrimination lawsuit pending in federal district court in New Jersey charges AT&T with "wearaway," which leaves older workers caught in a cash-balance conversion toiling for years before they start earning new benefits. (The company denies the charges.) A similar case is set to go to trial next spring against Onan Corp., a subsidiary of Cummins Engine Co. Says William Carr, an attorney representing workers in the case: "These plans are a profit center." Only now, considering the outcry, companies like IBM will start to wonder whether the costs outweigh...
...like stumbling into electronic quicksand: every attempt to escape only drew unsuspecting Net surfers, including children, more deeply into Web pages full of explicit sex. That lurid webscam, allegedly cooked up by a Portuguese hacker and an Australian company, was halted last week by a federal court after the Federal Trade Commission uncovered the brazen scheme. It worked like this: first, according to the FTC, the perpetrators replicated hundreds of legitimate websites, ranging from the Japanese Friendship Garden to the Harvard Law Review. By changing a single line of hidden software code, the culprits then ensured that any visitor calling...
...trial at the International Tribunal in the Hague, on charges of ethnic cleansing against Muslims in the town of Mostar in 1993. But the Croats have been dragging their feet, claiming that Naletilic is too ill to stand trial and charging him with lesser offenses in a Croatian court in order to jam up the legal process. "Sakic symbolizes a past era, but ?Tuta? is very much alive and would probably have some very interesting things to tell the Hague Tribunal about Tudjman and some of Croatia?s generals," says Anastasijevic. Until Croatia faces up to its recent past...