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...Jones team, the May 27 trial would come none too soon. Last week the right-leaning groups backing Jones looked more like bratty children than cogs in a well-oiled conspiracy machine. John Whitehead, who runs the Rutherford Institute, the legal foundation bankrolling her lawsuit, complains that another group, the Paula Jones Legal Fund, is siphoning away fund-raising cash. "The fund implies it's going to pay the lawyers," he says, but the money actually pays for Jones' expenses, including her makeover and clothes (more than $4,000), phone bills and savings for the $800,000 lien held...
...cases, the court will determine the extent to which employers are liable for harassment perpetrated by nonmanagement employees. In another case, the court will decide whether a woman threatened with retaliation for refusing a sexual advance--but never actually punished--can go ahead with her lawsuit...
...White House armada -- or so the defendant, Matt Drudge, would like to paint it. Claiming the $30 million libel case brought by Sidney Blumenthal in Washington was a veiled bid to gag his investigative reporting, Drudge said: "I don't know how one goes to begin to fight a lawsuit that's being driven by the highest court in the land." Answer: Use guerrilla-style legal tactics, and hope the case itself will never be heard...
Despite speculation to the contrary, Berkowitzsaid he has not brought a lawsuit against theUniversity and is not being officially representedby Nesson...
...federal judge ruled Monday that Martha Stewart can go ahead with her libel suit against the National Enquirer, which alleged in an article that the lifestyle deity had a "borderline personality disorder." The tabloid had asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit, saying the offending article was based on the opinion of at least two "experts." But Stewart's lawyer argued that the Enquirer presented the accounts as evidence of a medically proven condition. Stewart is seeking $10 million in damages...