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...wholly lacking in movie-star pretension. She and Pitt are frequently spotted hanging out in L.A., easygoing and accessible, without an entourage or phalanx of bodyguards. They are often trailed by a photographer, but she doesn't gripe about the press. Not usually, anyway. Aniston recently settled--"amicably"--a lawsuit against two magazine publishers for running topless photos of her in 1999. "You pick your battles," she says. "I drew the line when someone crawled into my backyard and took a naked photo...
...largest voting-rights lawsuit in U.S. history is expected to be filed this week in South Dakota, and it could have an impact on a closely watched Senate race this fall. Four Lakota Indians are challenging more than 600 election statutes that they say may have helped stymie the political power of the state's large Native American population. The suit will contest voting regulations in two overwhelmingly Indian counties on the grounds that the state failed to clear them with the Justice Department as required by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The tactics being challenged include some targeted...
...That option apparently wasn't good enough for Caesar Barber. Last Friday, he filed a lawsuit against McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Barber claims they sold him the food that made him obese, and that they should therefore be held accountable for "wrecking his life...
That's not huge bucks for a company with $17 billion in revenues, as Halliburton reported in 1998. But scandals over what counts as sales took Xerox down a peg over the last year and have caught up with drug companies Merck and Bristol-Meyers Squibb. The Judicial Watch lawsuit alleges that Halliburton used the revenue-enhancement gimmick to ward off investor scrutiny as the company's financials deteriorated when the oil industry retrenched. Revenues fell anyway, to $12 billion by 2000, Cheney's last year in command...
...EXPLANATION] Cheney's not talking. But a White House spokesman said the lawsuit against Halliburton, Cheney and Arthur Andersen on behalf of shareholders was "without merit...