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...former Harvard employee has filed a lawsuit against the University and one of its current employees alleging breach of employment contract and infliction of emotional distress...
According to the lawsuit which was filed in Worcester Superior Court the University failed to award Rapalee status as a regular employee on the University payroll even after she worked at the Harvard Forest for more than two years...
...instrumental in the hostile 1985 takeover of Revlon that helped make Perelman one of America's richest men, worth more than $4 billion. Tepperman did pretty well too, drawing a salary and bonus totalling more than $2 million. Now he hopes to do even better: in a $25 million lawsuit that spawned lurid headlines as it went to trial last week in White Plains, New York, Tepperman charges wrongful dismissal and, not incidentally, paints an ugly picture of Perelman's operation. Is there an unpleasant side to staggering wealth...
...from $64 to $102 a month depending on family size. Profound "positive" effects were claimed for the new law almost immediately. The key analysis was conducted by June O'Neill, who now directs the Congressional Budget Office. O'Neill, who had been hired by New Jersey to defend a lawsuit aimed at overturning the law, found "strong evidence that the family cap ... generated a significant change in the decision of single mothers to have an additional child." How significant? The reduction in births among women aware that their benefits would decrease ranged up to 29%, she said...
...jail 1 1Ú2 years before the state brought him to trial. Then he was acquitted of attempted murder and convicted of a lesser charge, for which he was only sentenced to probation, meaning he should never have spent the 18 months in jail. He has since filed a lawsuit claiming his right to a speedy trial was denied, and the trial court found there were numerous other inmates in the county jail waiting long periods before trial, some even longer than Melendez...