Word: lawsuit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...According to the lawsuit, "Boot Camp" producers LMNO pitched CBS on the show last June, with one twist: The drill sergeants - those real-life Marine "save the drama for yer mama" guys with the big hats - would do the voting...
...judge watch the tapes. This lawsuit gets at a bigger Reality TV issue: Who is the most exciting TV enemy - man, nature or authority? In the two shows' current forms, Jeff Probst and the drill sergeants match up (thematically, if not physically) as authority-figure facilitators. Both deliver the rules, make life plenty lousy for the contestants, and stir up a little conflict along the way. Nature, be it the Outback or Parris Island, heaps on some abuse, and certainly the setting is the biggest difference between the two. But the real damage - the voting off - is done...
...when the first pollution began. But they have to pay the cleanup costs nevertheless. Just because taxpayers did not themselves participate in the riot does not mean the city is freed from legal or moral responsibility. But reconciliation is best if it comes from the heart, not a lawsuit...
Issued by District Court Judge Bernard A. Friedman, the March injunction came in the wake of a two and half-year lawsuit filed against the university by a Caucasian female applicant, who alleged that she was not admitted to the U-M Law School because of racial discrimination...
Bollinger previously told The Crimson that if the U-M affirmative action policy were not upheld, society would run the risk of sliding "back into a world in which we don't attend to [civil rights] issues." He compared the implications of the current lawsuit to the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education {ITALICS...