Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are no damages, then there is no legal harm and no libel. The Globe won the lawsuit"--Floyd Abrams, prominent First Amendment lawyer, who defended The New York Times" in its 1971 Pentagon Pentagon Papers case...
...paraphrase the editorial of one perceptive North Shore newspaper John, you have about as good a conception of what happened in this lawsuit as you do about where you went to graduate school...
...arraigned last week on two additional counts. In San Diego, Monsignor Rudolph Galindo, former rector of the San Diego | cathedral, denied committing sexual improprieties with a Vietnamese immigrant altar boy, but in May the archdiocese agreed to a $75,000 settlement with the youngster's family. A related lawsuit brought by the boy's father is pending...
...information to prevent advertising deception. By a 6-to-2 vote, it upheld Ohio's reprimand of Zauderer for failing to explain in his ads that while no legal fees would be owed if he lost, the client might still be liable for other costs incurred in pursuing the lawsuit...
...comic required eight stitches. John Stossel, a reporter for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20, got a rounder basting when he told David ("Dr. D") Schultz, "You know, I think this is fake." His integrity impugned, the humongous Dr. D viciously swatted Stossel twice to the ground. Belzer is considering a lawsuit; Stossel is planning one. Both cases raise the ominous possibility that some wrestlers take the game all too seriously; they have crossed the hairline between vaudeville and violence. Such is the danger of performance art, as dadaist Comic Andy Kaufman used to prove when he would wrestle women...