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...Cambridge City Council considered bringing a lawsuit against Harvard and MIT challenging their tax-exempt status as educational institutions at their regular Monday night meeting...
Officials claimed the documents contained "explicit sexual content" which made them "inap-propriate" for an academic setting. In response, Manning filed a federal lawsuit last week claiming that her First Amendment rights to academic freedom and uncensored speech had been violated...
...online where anyone can download near-CD quality music for free. MP3s are so popular that Diamond Multimedia, a consumer electronics company popular for its video cards, began selling a $199 Walkman-like player, the Rio, that plays the Net tunes. The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the company, attempting to immediately prevent it from selling the device, but a judge was unimpressed: Until the case can be heard in court, Diamond is free to sell it. Of course, all the publicity attendant to the little Rio probably harmed Diamond more than the lawsuit. The company...
...work Palladino did for Clinton in his 1992 campaign to keep stories of sexual misconduct from becoming public, or that the money was used to suppress Teamster dissidents. Ruff has denied the allegations as "false and nonsensical." (Calls to McAuliffe?s attorney were not returned.) The proposed lawsuit will contend that government monitors failed to do their job overseeing the Carey administration and, "as a result," says a source close to the suit, "more than $20 million of taxpayer money was wasted on one election and the union went bankrupt." If Hoffa is successful, the Teamsters...
...deal hasn't dampened the government's confidence, it does make one aspect of the trial more problematic: the remedy. The DOJ could argue, as Georgetown law professor William Kovacic puts it, that "the lawsuit was the catalyst for this deal--it gave the companies some breathing room." In that case, Jackson may decide that that's all the relief they really need. After all, the trial is slow enough. Punishment shouldn't take forever...