Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal judge has ordered PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to give a deposition in a lawsuit concerning the 1985 slaying of an American aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton gave Arafat until January 12 to give his deposition, and said the PLO could be held liable if he does not cooperate in the suit. A New Jersey travel agency filed the lawsuit, which blames a PLO faction for the 3-day hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound elderly man, whom terrorists threw into the sea off Egypt...
...more expensive alternative medication, Accupril, but her managed-care company refused to cover the cost. Milburn, who lives on $440 a month in Social Security benefits, had to lay out about $30 a month of her own money until the company eventually relented under the threat of a lawsuit. Says Milburn: "Thirty dollars a month doesn't seem like much, but to me, trying to get by on $440 a month, it was an awful...
...ethics committee decision came a week after the Federal Election Commission released thousands of pages of documents in a civil lawsuit charging, among other things, that GOPAC spent $250,000 to fund Gingrich's re-election at a time when it was barred by law from involvement in federal races. House Democrats plan to use the documents as a basis for at least one new complaint before the ethics committee, including one that GOPAC donors got return favors from Gingrich. None of this will help stay the collapse of the Speaker's general popularity. In a Time/cnn poll conducted last...
...IACOCCA Erstwhile savior of Chrysler a defendant in a lawsuit. The plaintiff: Chrysler...
...another book, he says. But there may have been other, more pressing reasons. Three weeks ago, a civil jury found Huggins and an associate liable in a negligence suit brought by a woman who came in to have her fillings removed and ended up having five teeth extracted. Another lawsuit alleges that the Huggins Center hastened the death of an elderly couple; the wife stopped going to her oncologist for cancer treatments after going to the center. At a hearing that began last week, the Colorado attorney general's office charged that Huggins used fraud and "pseudo science" to frighten...