Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unwilling to accept unequal treatment under the law and more and more will fight all discrimination against them. The banker who refuses mortgages to women or the businessman who consistently rejects women who apply for management jobs stands to incur not only women's wrath but also a lawsuit...
Singer Frank Sinatra seldom ducks a rumble with a reporter. No sooner had he dropped his $3 million lawsuit against New York Gossip Columnist Earl Wilson, who wrote an unauthorized biography of the crooner, than he filed a $2 million complaint against Los Angeles Times Columnist Jody Jacobs. In an upcoming episode of Laugh-In, Ol' Blue Eyes goes after splashier revenge-by pouring a can of green paint (actually, dyed Cream of Wheat cereal) over a Rona Barrett lookalike. The victim: Actress June Gable, who plays a gossip-caster named Ms. Groana on the show. "He dumped this...
Bakke decided to sue on the ground that he was a victim of race discrimination.* But the origins of his lawsuit are somewhat mysterious. An admissions officer at Davis, later fired, apparently encouraged Bakke to bring suit against the university. Was that an attempt to subvert the admissions program or simply an effort to get a court ruling on this complex issue? And why did the university virtually concede in court that Bakke would have been admitted in an open competition for the remaining 16 seats...
...judicial system to conduct a thorough investigation of the Humes case. Currently without counsel, Humes says he is considering surrendering himself to the authorities to hasten the resolution of the charges pending against him, and to publicize his alternative detoxification treatment. He adds that he is still weighing a lawsuit against the National Computer Information Center, but has taken no serious action thus far. In the meantime, Humes keeps a close eye on the daily papers for information on drug shipments and fluetuations in the gold market. Humes draws a correlation between them based on the contention that most large...
Marks filed a lawsuit against the CIA earlier this year that helped trigger the recent series of disclosures about the MK-ULTRA program...