Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anything happening to employees or to anyone visiting the office," explains John Canada, budget and management policy director for the county. Many AIDS victims who feel wronged hesitate to embark on legal battles that they may not live to see completed. Not Shuttleworth. He brought a $15 million lawsuit against the county, and has continued to press it while struggling through AIDS-related pneumonia and meningitis...
...Washington, Congressmen raised questions about the need for new regulation of the securities industry and promised lengthy hearings on the insider- trading issue. A more aggressive response came from Angelo Oriolo, 66, a retired businessman from Pennsville, N.J., who last week filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. district court against Boesky and others implicated in the ^ scandal. Oriolo alleged that he had been injured financially in September 1985 when he sold 100 shares of General Foods stock. According to the SEC's complaint against Boesky, he made illegal profits from insider trading on General Foods. The Oriolo lawsuit...
Before severing ties in 1984, Harvard provided the clubs with private alumni lists for fundraising, centrex phone service and steam heat. No lawsuit ever challenged these links...
...creator, Harvey Publications, felt downright hostile when the company's executives saw the logo for Columbia Pictures' 1984 blockbuster movie Ghostbusters. The logo featured a cartoon ghost behind the symbol for prohibition, a red circle with a bar across its center. Two years ago, Harvey filed a $50 million lawsuit claiming copyright and trademark infringement. The company claimed that the logo copied a Harvey cartoon character named Fatso, one of a trio of ghosts that taunt Casper...
...wall of their garage, 29 New England Telephone Co. technicians staged a one-day walkout in Needham, Mass., to protest the return to work of a colleague who has the disease. The AIDS victim had stayed away from his job for a year, awaiting settlement of his $1.5 million lawsuit against the utility. He had charged the company with revealing his condition to his co-workers, who had then begun to threaten him. In California, debate continued over Proposition 64, on the ballot for consideration by voters in November. If passed, the proposition would give health officials the right...