Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alleged sexual harassment by Clinton near the Oval Office. Investigators have combed through Steele's bank, credit and phone records, called her daughter and other family members before the grand jury, questioned her friends and neighbors and subpoenaed her tax accountant twice. They have even been inquiring about the legality of her 1990 adoption of a Romanian orphan. All these moves are apparently intended to determine whether her version of the Willey story was somehow influenced by Clinton allies. Steele says the adoption is legal in both Romania...
Then all hell broke loose. Jones doubled her demand to $2 million; a previous set of lawyers rushed in with an $800,000 lien against her; her current lawyers in Dallas, who had run up more than $1.5 million in legal costs, announced after fighting with husband Steve Jones and McMillan that they would quit the case; and Clinton's lawyers backed away from the whole circus. Things were stalled until last week when the newest Jones attorney, Susan's husband William McMillan, approached Bennett and agreed to put in writing that Hirschfeld's offer was off the table...
...much will Jones pocket from the deal? Certainly not the full amount, since she has had at least five sets of lawyers with possible legal bills to present. (The Rutherford Institute has run up $400,000 on her behalf.) Clinton should be able to fund the payout from his insurance and his Legal Expense Trust, which as of August held about $1 million. The settlement does not exempt him from a possible contempt citation by federal judge Susan Webber Wright for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones case. But the deal will give the President...
Migrant-labor organizations and legal-aid groups in Florida have long waged an ongoing battle with the Fanjuls and other growers over the abysmal conditions. Greg Schell, an attorney with the Migrant Farmworkers Justice Project in Belle Glade, Fla., contends that of all the growers, the Fanjuls have treated their workers the worst. "They are in a class by themselves," he said. A lawsuit seeking back wages and benefits is expected to go to trial next spring...
...Microsoft, not surprisingly, is crying foul. Isn't this the same sort of deal that landed us in antitrust court, asked Microsoft legal counsel Charles "Rick" Rule? "Unless [the government is] about to go and criminally charge the Netscape and AOL and Sun people, which they aren't, then they can't claim these kinds of negotiations are improper," he said. Of course, none of these companies have a monopoly like Microsoft's to use as leverage. But the talks may become a vindication of Microsoft's central claim -- that you can't regulate an industry that turns topsy-turvy...