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Last week, Texaco board chair Peter I. Bijur settled a class-action lawsuit that had been filed several years ago by several black employees who claimed they were denied promotion opportunities because of their race. The corporation, which had previously been fighting the suit tooth and nail, offered the $176.1 million settlement only after a former Texaco executive disclosed a tape-recording he had made of a 1994 board meeting. On the recording, top Texaco brass discuss destroying evidence of hiring discrimination while using racially insulting language...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Texaco agreed to pay $140 million in one of the largest employee race-discrimination lawsuits to date. The two-year-old lawsuit had dominated headlines for the past two weeks, and prompted calls by Jesse Jackson for a boycott of the firm, after the release of a secret recording of a meeting in which Texaco executives discussed destroying company documents relevant to the case and ridiculed black employees as "black jelly beans." Under the settlement, Texaco will pay 1,500 present and former black employees who brought suit $115 million in cash, will provide $26.1 million...
...under the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown were the Democrats "selling" seats, using those missions to reward party donors? And did the trips serve the dual purpose of drumming up more donations abroad? Those are the questions at the heart of the lawsuit filed by the nonprofit, conservative group Judicial Watch, Inc. The suit became an election issue last week, when Judicial Watch lawyers were allowed to conduct a videotaped deposition of Democratic fund raiser John Huang. In addition, thousands of pages of Commerce Department documents have been turned over to the group...
Afrasiabi said he will soon file a third lawsuit against the University for his arrest and incarceration last spring...
Afrasiabi's lawsuit is the second of three that he said he intends to file...