Word: legality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brown University settled a heated six-year legal battle over the equality of women's athletics last week, a feud that has drawn national attention to the definition of gender equality in sports...
...Angeles legal newspaper, the Daily Journal, claims O.J. Simpson will appeal last year's civil-case decision against him. Simpson, who was cleared by a criminal jury, lost the wrongful death suit in civil court for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Simpson, says the Journal, will attempt to have the $33 million judgment against him overturned, or at least reduced. His lawyers filed their papers Thursday, saying the jury acted out of malice and prejudice. Fred Goldman, father of Ron, said he will fight any such move...
...airmen's lawyers face a tough challenge: "Their early line of defense, with witnesses describing the optical illusion caused by a flying through a valley, has been pretty weak," says Thompson. "These guys were flying way below the legal limit in an area where they shouldn't have been flying, and they killed 20 people...
...these must be sweet times to be a gun-industry lawyer, right? Well, maybe not. Some legal observers say the tide may be about to turn. The model is tobacco. For 40 years cigarette companies had a perfect record: 813 claims filed against them, no losses, no damages paid. But with popular opinion shifting against smoking and 47 states now suing to recoup their medical costs, Big Tobacco is worried enough about its chances going forward that it's offering hundreds of millions of dollars to settle. The key point for guns, like tobacco, is that negligence law turns...
...services with one connection from one company. And this is a big deal." So big, in fact, that there was a hint of desperation about the merger, which sped to a conclusion after just eight days of talks in the Manhattan offices of Wachtell, Lipton, AT&T's legal counsel. "Time was closing in on us," says Armstrong, who at 59 remains a man in a hurry who relaxes by roaring down roads on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Concurs Ken McGee, a vice president for the Gartner Group consulting firm: "This merger is a matter of pure survival...