Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...selling single My Name Is, Eminem raps "Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to/ I just found out my mom does more dope than I do." Lest one think he was merely trying to rhyme, he also described his mother in several national magazines as a lawsuit-happy, welfare-relying-on drug abuser. Mathers-Briggs' lawyer claims that his client never engaged in illegal activities and that the rapper is merely trying to beef up his street cred; the rapper's attorney says his client speaks the truth. Maybe instead of lawyers, the two would be better...
...TOBACCO Feds file megabucks lawsuit. And this time your G.O.P. pals may not be able to save...
...battle is raging in the courts too. An age-discrimination lawsuit pending in federal district court in New Jersey charges AT&T with "wearaway," which leaves older workers caught in a cash-balance conversion toiling for years before they start earning new benefits. (The company denies the charges.) A similar case is set to go to trial next spring against Onan Corp., a subsidiary of Cummins Engine Co. Says William Carr, an attorney representing workers in the case: "These plans are a profit center." Only now, considering the outcry, companies like IBM will start to wonder whether the costs outweigh...
...also be given to current welfare recipients. Those who test positive will be required to get treatment, and those who refuse to take the test will be cut off welfare within four months. Opponents of the initiative, including various welfare-rights groups and the ACLU, which has launched a lawsuit, argue that the tests violate the Fourth Amendment, which protects individuals from unreasonable searches...
Nothing can correct the damage already done to millions of Americans from cigarette smoking. Nothing can bring back lives needlessly lost. But, if this lawsuit is successful, perhaps we'll all be able to breathe easier in the future...