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Have trouble letting go? Months after losing his nasty lawsuit against Sony Music, George Michael seemed off to a fresh start at DreamWorks. But in a version of his new video, Fastlove, a deejay's headphones are inscribed with a dig at the old boss; they read "Fony...
Tiger Stadium, which began life as Bennett Park in 1896, will be the first of the three to go. Twice in the past few years loyalists have surrounded the ball park and given it a hug to demonstrate their affection, but they are down to their last, futile lawsuit, and ground will soon be broken for a Camden Yards knockoff in a better neighborhood...
...major defects, it seems, are walking around inside the plant. That's what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges in charges filed against Mitsubishi three weeks ago, in what may turn out to be the biggest federal sexual-harassment lawsuit in history. If the courts rule in favor of the EEOC, the total cost to Mitsubishi in compensatory and punitive damages could theoretically exceed $150 million. The company has also been hit with a class action on behalf of 29 women, which portrays the Mitsubishi plant as a misogynous mix of sexist Japanese management practice and American blue-collar, bully...
...geek, a peckerwood and a cracker." The author of these epithets: Goetz's own lawyer, Darnay Hoffman, right, pursuing the tactic of insulting one's client before the opposition can. It didn't work: a jury found Goetz liable to the tune of $43 million in the civil lawsuit growing out of his gunning down of four menacing panhandlers in 1984. Other examples of "Don't say that about my client--I'll say that about my client...
...just show that civil trials are easier to win than criminal trials--which bodes ominously for O.J. Simpson and his defense team. A more significant insight into America's criminal justice system is provided by the lawsuit filed against the Beverly Hills police department this week. The suit charges Beverly Hills cops with singling out the few black residents of the posh community for abusive treatment. Typically, many of the plaintiffs complain that they are frequently subjected to groundless, demeaning and sometimes violent traffic stops...