Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witholding its sanction, the school warned against the trip and removed itself from any related legal burdens, the dean said. According to those who traveled there, however, being on their own made little difference for the program...
Last week their long legal battle ended in triumph. State Farm agreed to pay $420,822 each to Kraszewski and two other plaintiffs: Wilda Tipton, 45, of Ventura, Calif., and the estate of Daisy Jackson, who died in 1983. The settlement calls for possible payments of $15,575 to $420,822 to other women who applied for 1,113 sales-agent jobs in California during the past 13 1/2 years. State Farm believes the settlement will cost no more than $50 million, but the plaintiffs' attorney estimates that the bill will be as high as $300 million. That would make...
...putting up a defense. The company issued $1.5 billion in new stock, aiming to dilute the value of De Benedetti's shares. A Brussels commercial court ruled the stock issue invalid, but the Belgian banking commission gave approval for the defense tactic, thus setting the stage for a legal and regulatory battle. Even Belgium's Finance Minister, Mark Eyskens, intervened. "We are not against Europeanization," he reportedly said. "You can do it, but you can't do it sneakily, breaking in like a thief in the night." In a hurriedly called meeting, Eyskens persuaded De Benedetti to limit his eventual...
However, attorneys for the King estate are trying to prove that the letter does not constitute a legal claim to the documents according to Massachusetts standards. They also maintain that the school has not cared properly for the papers and that several are missing...
...second legal order under the amnesty freeing suspects or people convicted in the killings of Americans...