Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certain to devolve into a nasty court battle that until very recently only Dunlap's fiercest critics could have imagined. Along with perhaps half a dozen shareholder suits stemming from the stock collapse, and litigation with the American Medical Association over a botched endorsement deal, Sunbeam expects a lawsuit from Dunlap seeking a going-away package...
...Collossus of Redmond's armor last year, Joel Klein chose a dangerous gambit. Instead of launching a new and achingly slow suit against Microsoft that might take years to resolve, he decided to move much more speedily. Last October he sued to reopen an existing Windows 95 lawsuit. All went well -- at first. An irate Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in December ruled that Microsoft had violated a 1995 agreement with the government. In no uncertain terms, he told Microsoft to split off its browser from Windows...
...week government lawyers learned a bitter lesson about the perils of gambling, overzealous federal district court judges, and how a choice that once seemed like a certain win may end with them losing their shirts. Not only did the appeals court slam the door on the Justice Department's lawsuit over Windows 95, but the decision imperils the mammoth Sherman Act case the feds and 20 states filed last month and on which they staked their reputations...
...that Tripp had not disclosed the arrest on her Pentagon security-clearance form, information that Mayer got from Pentagon public affairs chief Kenneth Bacon. Starr got to thinking about Ickes because of news accounts of a contentious six-hour deposition that Ickes underwent as part of a Judicial Watch lawsuit. In reply to one of Klayman's many questions, Ickes said he and Bacon had once briefly talked about Tripp over a Chinese take-out dinner...
...hoping to depose Mayer and obtain all her notes and source materials from the past six years, a give-me-every-word-you-ever-heard demand that sent alarms among journalists. Lamberth forbade the subpoena, saying the old material had no bearing on the heart of Klayman's lawsuit. "That's when Filegate began," is how Klayman explains it. "We wanted to see if she knew anything about Filegate...