Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treatment of athletes sometimes mocked the values of amateur sports, and whose volatile personal behavior had caused more than one person to leave the Foxcatcher club. In August 1988, a problem-plagued wrestling program he funded at Villanova was shut down after just two years. In December 1988, a lawsuit (which was settled out of court) claimed Du Pont had made improper sexual advances to Villanova assistant coach Andre Metzger...
Although the VMI ruling will also decide the pending Citadel lawsuit, this case has attracted far less attention because the plaintiff was the Bush Administration's Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, filing on behalf of an anonymous complainant under his civil rights authority. His weight and hair were not nearly so much fun to ridicule as the huffing and puffing Shannon Faulkner, whose dropping out to the cheers of cadets was carried live...
...foundation and fund it with an amount equal to the company's fair market value--a way of paying back the state for all the taxes the company had avoided as a nonprofit. Conversion would pave the way for going public. In a tactical maneuver, Dr. Hasan filed a lawsuit to block the conversion, charging that Greaves had undervalued the company's net worth and cheated the people of California. After all, Dr. Hasan himself was willing to bid far more...
...primary motivation was to force Greaves into a merger, but second, if Greaves still refused, to force Health Net to pay far more into its shadow foundation and thereby reduce the capital it could deploy against QualMed's own California operations. As long as Dr. Hasan pressed the lawsuit, Greaves knew, Health Net had no hope of going public. "It was devastating to us," Greaves says. "My name was in the paper every day as a bad guy, a villain...
...provide information about other work in which he did not take part. At a news conference President Clinton said his wife would continue to "do what is necessary" to answer all questions. The President acknowledged that the legal bills the couple is amassing over Whitewater and the Paula Jones lawsuit could bankrupt the family...