Word: lawsuits
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...immunity for official presidential acts, but it has never extended the doctrine to acts that occurred before a President took office. Clinton, who has denied Jones' allegations and said he has no recollection of ever meeting her, is asking the court to hold that presidential immunity requires that Jones' lawsuit wait until he leaves office...
...emotional toll on her that people are calling her a bimbo, trailer-park trash, a gold digger," says Jones' lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, who argues she should not have to wait until 2001 to begin clearing her name. He also contends that the burden on Clinton of proceeding with the lawsuit has been overstated. "This President goes on vacation, he plays golf in Hawaii and Australia, he jogs, he even wrote a book while in office," Cammarata says. "The duties of the office of President are not unremitting...
...deciding factor may be one that should, as a legal matter, be irrelevant: the raw quality of Jones' allegations. A decision in her favor would open the President up not to a run-of-the-mill civil lawsuit but a potentially lurid judicial voyage through a world of alleged use of state troopers to procure women, and purported "bimbo eruptions." Clinton would no doubt be questioned about contentions like paragraph 22 of Jones' complaint: that "[t]here were distinguishing characteristics in Clinton's genital area that were obvious to Jones." Even Justices reluctant to extend presidential privilege may feel that...
...body lying in the Ramsey living room, where her father had carried her after finding her in the basement. The Globe, which had asked around to see who had developed the crime scene shots, agreed to return the photos on Tuesday now that Boulder County is dropping a lawsuit against the 1.3-million circulation weekly, but retains publication rights to the photos it already ran. Outraged by the publication of the photos, the Ramsey family have posted a JonBenet Ramsey Information Update web site in which they blast the Globe editors as "jackals, not journalists" (www.rowanblewitt.com/ramsey/)
DETROIT: Volkswagen agreed to pay General Motors $100 million as part of a settlement ending a long and bitter lawsuit alleging that Volkswagen stole trade secrets. VW also agreed to buy at least $1 billion worth of parts from GM over seven years. The deal reportedly had been in the works ever since last month, when German prosecutors indicted the central figure in the case, Jose Ignacio Lopez. It closes a dispute that began in March 1993, when Lopez, about to be promoted to General Motors' chief of North American operations, moved overnight to Volkswagen, along with seven other...