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TOBIAS SCHWARZ/REUTERS First it was a lawsuit to prevent speculation on whether he dyes his hair. Now German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has won a court case forcing a publisher to remove a photograph from the cover of a fictional thriller. Why? Because Schröder thinks it looks too much like him. Publisher Betzel Verlag says it has recalled copies of The End of the Chancellor - The Final Shot. In the tale, the pharmacist hero shoots a German Chancellor he blames for his business bankruptcy. A spokeswoman for Betzel says Schröder is never mentioned...
Califano was so inside that he often seemed to be playing for both sides at once. During Watergate, as counsel to the Washington Post, Califano defended the paper against subpoenas for its reporters' notes in a lawsuit he himself had filed against Richard Nixon's re-election campaign on behalf of the Democratic National Committee...
...Fifteen clients have already died in the one year since the lawsuit was filed. We don’t have any basis to delay the expeditious continuation of this case,” he said...
Fast food makers have a less-than-stellar public health record, as Eric Schlosser exposed in his book Fast Food Nation. To deny that the industry could in no way be deemed culpable for its obesity-promoting tactics would be naive. Admittedly, not every lawsuit holds the same weight, and proponents of blanket immunity often counter that legislation is needed to prevent the onslaught of frivolous lawsuits that might follow a single successful case. But just as the real solution to obesity is not blaming the fast food industry and leaving it at that, the real solution to frivolous lawsuits...
...says David Wood, a Brussels-based attorney for Howrey Simon Arnold & White, who previously worked in Monti's competition directorate. Microsoft's rivals, at least for now, are jubilant. Executives at Real Networks, which makes the leading rival to Microsoft's Media Player and recently filed a broad antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in the U.S., say there's value in the E.U. precedent. Ed Black, president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, says that Monti "played his hand superbly" but adds: "It's just a shame it has taken so long. In five years a lot of damage...