Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holy Cross Armenian Catholic Church was razed late last month, and its congregation relocated to Belmont six weeks ago. The church's blockage of Grendel's liquor license spurred a lawsuit, Larkin v. Grendel's Den, that went up to the Supreme Court. The Court agreed with Laurence H. Tribe '62, Ralph S. Tyler Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law, that giving the church veto power was an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to a religious institution...
...mentioned, in passing, that Katzenberg would be leaving the company. Katzenberg went on to launch DreamWorks in partnership with Steven Spielberg and music mogul David Geffen. Katzenberg was the only one who had to mortgage himself to put up the $33 million seed money. In these circumstances, the lawsuit--for which his attorneys had logged 9,000 expensive hours as of September--has proved to be an especially big pain in the wallet...
...lawsuit filed Friday, Murphy claims he has been unable to work since Tarantino punched him in the face and head last month at a West Hollywood restaurant. The fight was sparked by comments Murphy made about Tarantino in the book "Killer Instinct," written by "Natural Born Killers" co-producer Jane Hampshire, the lawsuit claimed...
...uses in selecting its incoming class. With their frequent references to the race of applicants, and apparent use of different and lower selection criteria for minority applicants, Cohen's materials are the kind of evidence that make a conservative litigator's pulse race. "All you really need for a lawsuit is contained in these pieces of paper," says Terry Pell, a lawyer with the Washington-based Center for Individual Rights, which litigates on behalf of a variety of conservative causes...
...fact, Cohen's documents are at the heart of a potential landmark lawsuit that could ban the use of race in college admissions. CIR is representing a group of white students turned down by the University of Michigan who, it contends, would have been admitted under the standards applied to minority applicants. Conservative strategists have come to view the federal courts as their best ally in the battle against affirmative action. Proposals to roll back racial preferences have gone nowhere in Congress. Affirmative-action foes won big in California last year with Proposition 209, but that victory has turned...