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...following week, Harvard moved to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the University by a professor denied tenure two years...
...beware that unlike your 401(k) plan, IRA products do not offer federal protection from creditors. While some states like New Jersey and Texas have extensive protections, others like California, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire offer only limited protection in the event you find yourself held liable in a lawsuit or declaring bankruptcy. So before rolling over your nest egg into a Roth IRA, review your state's laws. One source is www.ici.org...
...Explorer quickly became the most popular SUV of all time - and a major cash cow for both Ford and Firestone - a number of lawsuits concerning the Firestone tires were filed, the first in 1992. But Ford and Firestone, like most companies in today's superlitigious society, tend to assume that the bulk of legal actions are frivolous. "We're going to be second-guessed about this forever. But based on the number of vehicles in service, the number of incidents was statistically insignificant," says Ken Zino, one of Nasser's senior advisers. "We get sued every day. A lawsuit...
...indictment in Salt Lake overshadowed other news from a Denver courtroom that may ultimately prove far more troublesome for the Olympics. In filing a wrongful-termination lawsuit, Dr. Wade Exum, director of the U.S.O.C.'s drug-control unit for nine years before he stepped down under pressure last month, charged among other things that his bosses systematically covered up illicit drug use. "In recent years, absolutely no sanction has been imposed on roughly half of all the American athletes who have treated positive for prohibited substances," Exum alleged. He said that his tests had turned up "scores" of athletes using...
...most punk rock of the lot of us," quit the group during the Lollapalooza tour in '95. There were legal hassles. The publishers of the new-wave band Wire claimed the riff in Connection was lifted from Wire's late-'70s song Three Girl Rumba and threatened a lawsuit (the affair was settled out of court). And there were the usual rock woes. Rumors spread that Frischmann was addicted to heroin and that Albarn was jealous because his girlfriend's band was having more success than...