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...alone in giving Cook the oxygen of publicity. But when the only hook for a story is a lawsuit -- which takes only one person convincing one lawyer to go forward -- the media are under some obligation to check out the accusation. In this case, a modest amount of reporting would have shown the charges to be suspect. Repressed memory is controversial to begin with, and the hypnotist who jogged Cook's memory is in the graphic-arts business and is not a licensed psychologist. The evidence was flimsy. There was no telltale inscription in a book Bernardin was supposed...
Steven Cook dropped his $10 million sexual-abuse lawsuit against Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, admitting that his hypnotically retrieved memories of sexual misconduct by Bernardin in the mid-1970s were "unreliable...
...know why they're taking so long, unless they don't want to do it at all," said security guard Howard Reid, one the guards who alleged discriminatory acts. "More or less, the report served to cover their butts in the case of a lawsuit--that...
Kaufman said he will be a plaintiff in a soon-to-be-filed lawsuit challenging the anti-rent control referendum as a violation of the home-rule guarantee embodied in the state's constitution...
...message American novelist David Leavitt got from his publisher, Viking, last week. No more copies of Leavitt's controversial novel, While England Sleeps, will be printed or shipped until the author has made "minor revisions," said a Viking spokesperson. The move was in response to a lawsuit by the eminent British poet Stephen Spender, who claims that Leavitt has drawn too closely on his 1951 memoir, World Within World...