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...orator from writing the speech last week: I'm sorry I lied. I was protecting the privacy of my wife and daughter in an area in which people always keep things private. I didn't think I should be answering these questions in the first place because the underlying lawsuit was bunk, which has been borne out by its dismissal. Having to make this confession is humiliating, a punishment in itself. I still want to do the job you elected me to, and think I can do it well. [Aside to Congress] Impeach me for this, if you dare...
...appointment of a warrior like Ballmer seems significant in light of Microsoft's ongoing battle with the Justice Department. The software giant, which controls some 85% of the market for computer operating systems, is facing a federal antitrust lawsuit focusing on its business practices. Ballmer will have been president seven weeks when the suit goes to trial in September. Gary Reback, the lawyer whose crusade is to break up Microsoft, contends the appointment reveals the company's arrogance in the face of the investigation. "Steve Ballmer is the most aggressive of the Microsoft management team, and based on his appointment...
...YORK: The honeymoon may be over for Viagra. Diego Padro, 63, has filed the first lawsuit against Pfizer Inc. -- claiming that Viagra gave him a heart attack ?- and at $85 million, it?s a lulu. "He was perfectly healthy, and five days after he started taking Viagra -- bam," said Ronald Benjamin, attorney for Padro and his wife, Maria, Thursday after filing the suit in state Supreme Court against the maker of the impotency treatment drug. "The warning about Viagra to the medical profession is inadequate...
This Chicago suit is part of a wave of lawsuits against the $2 billion gun industry in which several new legal theories are being tested. In a New York City suit against 60 gunmakers and gun sellers, survivors of victims of gun violence are charging gun companies with distributing weapons in a way calculated to evade gun-control laws. Two California cases are going after the gun industry for making cop-killer bullets and guns that fail to indicate they're loaded when they have a round in the chamber but an empty clip. The families of two people killed...
...perhaps the biggest threat to the industry is the growing talk of cities' suing. Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell seemed to inspire a trend in January when he said he was considering filing a lawsuit to recoup the $58.8 million in gun-related costs his city spends each year on everything from police expenses to the cost of literally cleaning the blood off sidewalks. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has spoken of filing a suit to recoup costs and stop gun shops outside the city from selling guns to Chicago residents who have not legally registered with the city...