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...celebrated suit brought by the supermarket chain Food Lion against ABC has frequently been misrepresented as a grand constitutional battle, a conflict over whether the First Amendment lets reporters commit fraud. The recent federal appeals court decision throwing out almost all of the damages against ABC represents a narrowly and wisely drawn opinion that protects press freedoms without giving the news media an open license to violate...
...claimed any specific damages a result of the fraudulent applications filed by the reporters. Food Lion could identify no problems with the reporters' work; indeed, they both received positive reports from their supervisors, one of whom recommended that the reporter be rehired. Because North and South Carolina laws on fraud required such damages, the claim of fraud--and the $300,000 judgment attached to it--was denied...
Finally, Bill Clinton got the headline he has been dreaming of for years: "Justice Department Sues Big Tobacco." Claiming that tobacco companies conspired to conceal the risks of cigarette smoking from the public and thus engaged in consumer fraud, federal lawyers will invoke the federal civil racketeering statute and ask for $25 billion to recoup taxpayer dollars spent to cover smoking-related health-care costs for veterans, military personnel, federal employees and the elderly through Medicare payments. Although under the law an award could be triple that if the feds can get a jury to see things their way, even...
RELATIONSHIP'S LEGAL HIGHLIGHT: In 1997 Copperfield filed a $30 million lawsuit against a French magazine that had suggested the union was a fraud...
ARRESTED. MARTIN FRANKEL, 44, fugitive financier whose trading firm may have been the center of a sophisticated scam that siphoned some $335 million from a web of insurance companies; by German police on a warrant charging him with U.S. federal money-laundering and wire-fraud offenses; at a hotel in Hamburg. Extradition is expected to take several months. After flying to Rome in May, Frankel vanished. At one point, a report had him in Brazil. Mona Kim, his office manager and a companion in the early part of his journey, told CNN that there was no high living...