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...undone and at the suggestion of his boss, Madison chairman (and Whitewater partner) McDougal, he turned for help to one of the state's top lawyers, Hillary Rodham Clinton. After meeting with her for several hours, Denton helped her carry the files to her car in preparation for a lawsuit...
Both men are pursuing grievances through thesecurity guard union in hopes of regaining lostwages. Some sources say a civil lawsuit by Auteriois imminent...
...American Family Association, which is headed by right-wing evangelist Donald Wildmon, is supplying Knox with an attorney who hopes to file a lawsuit on behalf of the students and perhaps take it all the way to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Governor Fordice, a Republican who once raised a national uproar by referring to America as "a Christian nation," is zealously exploiting the issue, declaring, "Any place that Americans want to pray ought to be the place for prayer...
Last week's round of trouble began with a second lawsuit, this one leveled against Jackson by five former bodyguards in Los Angeles. The security team, dismissed by Jackson's MJJ productions last February, claims that its services were terminated because the guards had come to know too much about the star's fondness for closed-door evenings with young boys. The suit alleges that Jackson hid male children in the guards' shack at his family's Encino estate, summoning them to his suite after his parents had gone to sleep. Charles Mathews, an attorney for the guards, says that...
...experience with prejudice or police harassment. Whatever the case, the presence of jurors who share the background of a defendant or plaintiff is useful in pointing out to other jurors cultural differences and confusions. Paul Igasaki, executive director of the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, recalls a recent lawsuit heard by a jury containing only one Asian American. The panel was puzzled by the failure of the plaintiffs to demonstrate sufficient passion over the damages they claimed to have suffered. More Asian Americans on the jury might have illuminated matters by pointing out that the plaintiffs came from...