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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company refuses to license through Brinton's office, the University will order it to "cease and desist...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CRIMSOM STAFF WRITER | Title: CLAIMING THE NAME HARVARD | 3/19/1998 | See Source »

...foreign policy and pending legislation to add moral weight to his claim that the South African President is mixing with a suspect crowd. The argument goes something like this: Iran is bad. Furthermore, America says Iran is bad. Therefore Mandela is wrong to do deals with Iran and should desist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mandela Owed More Respect | 11/18/1997 | See Source »

...University, as you well know, is private property," Donahue said to the students. "Cease and desist handing out the literature on the property...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Activists Prohibited From Distributing Leaflets at HBS | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...patient, was found dead in a suburban Detroit motel with a note mentioning Kevorkain had helped her. Feiger said many other Kevorkian-assisted suicides had gone unreported because they involved people in Kevorkian's home state, Michigan, and therefore drew little media attention. Michigan issued Kevorkain a cease-and-desist order in April for practicing medicine without a license. He promptly burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevorkian's Suicide List Grows | 8/14/1997 | See Source »

...state of Mississippi (Elvis-shaped flower arrangements) to fan clubs in Kuala Lumpur to the Federal Government of the U.S. (in a dispute over licensing the popular 1993 Elvis stamp). The Presley cases remain the legal precedent most often cited when other stars' estates attempt to lay cease-and-desist orders on "infringers," making EPE a hero to many a Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOVE ME LEGAL TENDER | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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