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SETTLED. A civil lawsuit brought against KOBE BRYANT, 26, Los Angeles Lakers star, by a woman who claimed Bryant raped her in a hotel near Vail, Colo., in June 2003; by the parties' lawyers, who did not discuss the terms; in Denver...
...linguistic fencing extends to the current Congress, where Republicans have a whole list of bills designed to curb lawsuits and in selling that plan, seem unable to use the word lawsuit without "frivolous" appearing before it. Democrats, long behind in the word battle, have hired a linguist from the University of California Berkley named George Lakoff to help them. And they have a few new phrases themselves. They're going back to describing their views on abortion as "safe, legal and rare" as Bill Clinton did and when asked about gays, invokes the term "equal rights" rather than "gay marriage...
...Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (SJC) will likely hear a lawsuit in April brought by The Crimson to obtain wider access to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) records, according to lawyers involved in the case...
...lawsuit, which was initially filed in 2003, The Crimson argued that since HUPD officers are given police powers by the state, the records they create on the job should be public...
...Crimson’s lawsuit has attracted the attention of other college newspapers, including the Boston College Heights and the Brown Daily Herald, as well as several journalism associations. In total, seven such groups filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of The Crimson’s position...