Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest insider-trading scandal in Wall Street history kept reverberating last week. Litton Industries, the Beverly Hills-based conglomerate, filed a $30 million lawsuit against Shearson Lehman Bros., the finance-cum-brokerage firm, and Dennis Levine, the ex-investment whiz who has already pleaded guilty to a variety of insider-trading charges filed by the U.S. Government. Litton's contention: that in November 1982, while Levine was employed by Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb (now merged into Shearson Lehman), his illicit trading activities helped puff up the price of stock in Itek, an electronics firm, just as Litton was preparing...
...getting hostile phone calls from feminists, and Rosalind Rosenberg, a professor at Barnard College, is getting icy treatment from her fellow feminist historians. Both stand accused of deviating from orthodoxy on critical issues of women's employment: Friedan for opposing the National Organization for Women on a maternity-leave lawsuit, and Rosenberg for putting feminist scholarship at the service of Sears in a sex-discrimination case. Friedan is "under enormous pressure" to change her position, and Rosenberg has been denounced for "betrayal" and her "immoral...
...eight-page document makes five specificcharges of illegality, which would likely becomethe main issues in a lawsuit. They...
Harry contends that the real motive for the lawsuit is a church effort to control his Santa Fe Communications. "The hierarchy of the Catholic Church wants to run any Catholic network," he says. Indeed, Erica has testified that in 1984, Vatican Ambassador to the U.S. Pio Laghi hinted that church recognition might be withdrawn from Santa Fe Communications "if we didn't do something right away" about Harry's antics. Erica also stated that shortly before the trial began, Mother Teresa expressed her support...
...Business School professor will give expert testimony this summer in a landmark lawsuit over the future of professional football...