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...seems an eternity since the name of Monica Lewinsky last came up in the nation?s affairs. But on Thursday, Lewinsky, and the whole national ordeal associated with her, resurfaced briefly in a long-in-arriving windup order from the judge who presided over the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright followed up her historic April contempt of court ruling against President Clinton with a monetary sanction against him: $90,686 for having provided false testimony under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones lawsuit. The money ? minus $1,202, which will...
BILL GATES Whee! His personal fortune hits $100 billion; Microsoft wins Connecticut lawsuit...
...This is yet another example of how cruise lines, who fly under foreign flags, are finally coming under U.S. legal scrutiny," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. This week?s shot across the industry?s bow comes on top of a private lawsuit that last week torpedoed an embarrassing hole into Carnival, the number one cruise line. In court papers stemming from a rape complaint filed by a former crew member, Carnival, according to the New York Times, acknowledged that its crew members had been accused of sexually assaulting passengers and other staffers 62 times since 1993, prompting the company...
Lawyers for antihate groups are considering lawsuits against WCOTC on behalf of Smith's victims, one of whom filed his own suit on Friday. The broader suits would probably charge that Hale and his group's rhetoric were responsible for Smith's shooting spree. Proving anything will be difficult, but antihate lawyers hope such a lawsuit might bankrupt the group. In 1994 the Southern Poverty Law Center won a $1 million fine against the WCOTC's previous incarnation--called simply the Church of the Creator, a group founded by a former Florida legislator--because of its ties to violence...
This week, at its annual convention in New York City, the N.A.A.C.P. plans to announce that it will file a class-action lawsuit against manufacturers, distributors and importers of handguns. The lawsuit will come on the heels of several suits filed against the industry by cities, including Chicago, that charge a glut of guns supplied to the suburbs has fueled an illegal market in cities, and New Orleans, which claims safety devices on guns are inadequate. N.A.A.C.P. president KWEISI MFUME told TIME that the organization will seek not financial damages but injunctions ordering the industry to make several changes...