Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that exchange indicates, Nixon still persists in evading questions about the scandal that drove him from office. The occasion was the giving of a six-hour deposition by Nixon in San Clemente on July 25. This was part of a lawsuit in which he is challenging the constitutionality of a law passed last December that made his White House files, containing some 42 million documents and secret tape recordings, the property of the Federal Government. For six hours, Nixon was interrogated by ten attorneys who are contesting his suit. Among them were lawyers representing Watergate Special Prosecutor Henry Ruth...
...revived the long calcified FTC as a trade watchdog and riled the business community with his emphasis on consumer protection. But instead of taming the FTC, Engman stepped up its activity. Hardly a week passes that the 1,600-man agency does not announce some new rule, investigation or lawsuit. Its principal targets have been monopoly, unfair influence, industrial or professional conspiracy-any form of economic power, indeed, that in Engman's view distorts the workings of a free market and unjustifiably hikes prices...
CTOC began organizing tenants in January and last Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the legality of the increase...
...directors of the Association of Tennis Professionals (A.T.P.), the players' union he has refused to join, with a $41 million lawsuit. It charges that leaders of the A.T.P. violated antitrust laws by allegedly conspiring with organizers of the French Open to bar Connors and others from that tournament because they were not playing regularly on the European summer circuit...
...rally last week in the city of Lucknow, a Divine Light stronghold in northern India, but was forced to retreat when local officials refused permission for the meeting. So the guru called a press conference and announced that he would deal with his mother and his brother through a lawsuit. After all, he reasoned, nobody can oust the Lord...