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...upon himself. As if that image weren't scarring enough, Rodriguez says he then had to watch himself mocked in Michael's video Outside, in which men dressed as cops danced and kissed each other. Now the officer of the peace has declared war, filing a $10 million lawsuit against the singer for slander, mental anguish and emotional and physical distress. At a news conference held in London last week to promote NetAid, a concert to benefit Kosovo refugees, Michael called the suit a "minor irritation" and promised tabloid reporters he'd speak with each of them personally...
...lost its case, and it's far from being alone. Each year, more than 20,000 foreign companies are taken to court under this law, which strictly regulates sales or special promotions by marketers, as well as "gifts" to consumers. Is this simply an inferiority complex masquerading as a lawsuit? According to Wallace, the continuing flood of lawsuits is partly due to a case of nerves within the German business community. "Here are 1,600 German companies, scanning the horizon, looking for anything that might threaten their business and profits ? and when they see something, they make a move...
...Sanders figures the government is in this for more than the money. "The industry regulation that the states won wasn?t as far-reaching as Clinton wanted, and the money they got isn?t going to smoking prevention," he says. "The administration is going to try to use a lawsuit as leverage to get the regulatory measures that failed in Congress, and also get in a slap at the Republicans for killing that bill." Indeed, a jury might find it hard to see the U.S. government as the victim. The generation that is these days dying of lung cancer...
Most of the time, if studios go ahead with their use of the Harvard name--despite the University's rejection of their request--Harvard does little. The only measure available is a lawsuit, which often creates a bigger hassle for the University and useful publicity for their antagonists...
RELATIONSHIP'S LEGAL HIGHLIGHT: In 1997 Copperfield filed a $30 million lawsuit against a French magazine that had suggested the union was a fraud...