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Environmentalist Carlton, whose lawsuit prodded the government to move on the mouse, says what the state may be scheming is "an end-run around the law to subvert restoring the ecosystem. You might have to move a golf course or road 100 ft. or so, but protection isn't going to do in anybody. There's a lot of fear-mongering going on." The Fish and Wildlife Service, apparently agreeing, contends that in 95% of cases only minimal disruption occurs when species are listed as endangered...
Clinton may be the winner in the dismissal of the Paula Jones sexual-harassment lawsuit [NATION, April 13], but the judge's decision has set back the women's movement 50 years. Now any boss can ask a woman to come into his office, close the door, unzip his pants and ask her to perform oral sex. Even if she refuses and leaves, she can no longer claim outrage in a court of law. Unless this ruling is reversed, women in the workplace had better not go into the boss's office without a witness. If Clinton can get away...
...presents a challenge to prosecutors because it will moot the issue of Windows 95, which will be widely supplanted by the new version. With that in mind the government will soon have to decide whether to block the release of the new operating system as part of a broader lawsuit based on Sherman Antitrust Act violations. Such a case would be much harder to prove than the comparatively clear-cut issues surrounding the integration of features in Windows 95 -- and that case hasn't exactly been a stroll in the park...
Sword-wielding virtual warriors in the medieval world of Ultima Online have become real-life plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Origin Systems, creator of the popular Internet game. Fed up with service lags and other bugs, they charge Origin knew it couldn't deliver 24-hour real-time play but advertised it anyway. Their lawyer says it's time the computer-gaming industry quit hyping its wares; he wants Origin to drop its $10 monthly fee until the problems are fixed. The company won't comment but invites players to call its help line...
Dismissed Wednesday by a federal judge, Blumenthal explained that the 1996 Communications Act exempts Internet content providers from libel and defamation charges, forcing the dismissal of his defamation lawsuit...