Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panel discussion last night interspersed with a plethora of sometimes-bizarre metaphors, Harvard Law School Lecturer Jonathan L. Zittrain and AETNA Professor of Public Policy Frederic Michael Scherer argued both sides of the Microsoft anti-trust lawsuit...
Consider Iowa attorney general Tom Miller, a Democrat and one of the A.G.s suing Microsoft. The company has hired two of his best friends, both former legislators. "They were in to see me once or twice" about the lawsuit, Miller says, and he's also heard from two former state A.G.s making Microsoft's arguments. A similar strategy seems to be at work in California, where, according to attorney general Bill Lockyer, the company hired a former state senator who is "a very close friend of mine." In West Virginia, Microsoft has taken a tougher tack. According to attorney general...
...attorney general to drop off the Microsoft case, won't say how much the company donated to the group. But he isn't embarrassed about the money--or about the $3,500 he solicited and got from Microsoft for his own election coffer after he dropped his state's lawsuit. "I was glad to get it," he says...
...Health Plans. But proponents of the bill argue that as long as most HMOs resist going United's way--and they will until it is clear that the company can manage costs without micromanaging its doctors--patients will need the protection that comes from the threat of a lawsuit. "We need to codify [this] into law," says Republican Congressman Charles Norwood, a Georgia dentist and co-sponsor of the House bill...
...said that Hope played a key role in the University's legal affairs. He cited her significance in resolving an anti-trust lawsuit filed against the Ivy League schools by the Justice Department--the University had been challenged on its financial aid policies...