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...bashing is nothing new, but what's unusual is that these students are holding their schools accountable. In 1996 Nabozny brought a groundbreaking federal lawsuit alleging that administrators hadn't done enough to protect him. A jury agreed, and the school district settled for $900,000. Four similar lawsuits have followed--McDonald filed one in October--and the U.S. Department of Education issued guidelines in March barring certain kinds of antigay harassment...
...endorse gay rights. In the most noted case, the state of Utah banned gay school clubs last year after students at Salt Lake City's East High formed such a group. The legislature got involved because the local school board feared that targeting gay clubs could provoke a lawsuit. Indeed, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund has used legal threats to shelter gay-straight alliances at more than 20 schools nationally. Ironically, the fund's primary weapon is the federal Equal Access Act, a 1984 law designed to safeguard religious groups. The act says schools must treat clubs equally...
...allowed only $300,000 for music and about $7 million for special effects. Typically, music in a big movie like Titanic can cost more than $1.5 million. As for effects, Starship Troopers or The Lost World each required more than $20 million worth. Using the threat of a lawsuit, Paramount negotiated an agreement that capped its contribution at $65 million. It was the beginning of what Mechanic describes as "a terrible relationship...
...first point is the best place to begin. Read the trade magazines to see what the latest Intel plans are for its processors. Look in the technology section of your favorite paper to keep abreast of high-level events such as the Justice Department's lawsuit against Microsoft or Apple's purchase of PowerComputing. Really, it's more fun than it sounds, and it's free...
...attention than the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1987, at the museum's behest and with the assistance of two of its curators, Searle purchased a Degas pastel known as Landscape with Smokestacks for $850,000. Now, 10 years later, the 71-year-old philanthropist faces a major lawsuit filed by the heirs of Holocaust victims who claim that the painting was stolen from their relatives by the Nazis. "My family was murdered, their possessions destroyed or stolen," says Simon Goodman, a Los Angeles businessman who, together with his brother and aunt, is suing Searle. "These works are all that...