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ASBURY PARK, N.J. After issuing 17 licenses, city officials stopped marrying same-sex couples, pending a lawsuit that would decide their legality
...most visible trouble for the industry comes from about 40 product-liability suits in which cigarette manufacturers are charged with causing disease and, in some cases, death. Similar lawsuits have been around since the 1950s, and tobacco firms have always defeated any claims. This week in Santa Barbara County, Calif., Superior Court, a case comes to trial. R.J. Reynolds is the sole cigarette manufacturer named in the lawsuit, but tobacco makers are closely following the case. Says Robert Rukeyser, vice president of American Brands, maker of Lucky Strike and Pall Mall: "We take these suits very seriously...
...attorney (she got her law degree from the University of Michigan in 1988) was a sexual-harassment claim of an unsophisticated woman against her powerful former boss. Coulter was one of a handful of informal legal advisers quietly helping Paula Jones, who had alleged in a 1994 lawsuit that she suffered distress and retaliation at her state job after refusing Arkansas Governor Clinton's request for oral sex in 1991. Coulter interviewed Jones and helped write her legal briefs...
Bernards said the MPAA, like the RIAA, will litigate against college students using “John Doe” lawsuits—meaning that each lawsuit is filed against...
...also been scheduled to appear on the station’s “Book TV” program to discuss her forthcoming book, “History on Trial: My Day in Court With David Irving.” It recounts the libel lawsuit Irving filed against her in a British court for labeling him a Holocaust denier in her 1993 book, “Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.” He lost the lawsuit...