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...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 »

...image of a long-dead superstar--it may sound like innocent if somewhat obsessive fun. Legally speaking, however, virtually everything you are doing is a form of copyright infringement. If you keep it up, you are likely to receive, as have thousands before you, something called a cease-and-desist order from a company in Memphis, Tenn., telling you that no matter how many times you may have loyally sat through Viva Las Vegas or Roustabout on the late show, you may not use the name and image of the King without the company's permission...

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