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...courts to award damages that could exceed $1 billion. How Unocal fares in a trial starting this week in a California state court and in federal litigation will be closely watched, because the oil company is just one of many big U.S. companies facing similar court cases, a potential minefield for multinationals. Other targets include Fresh Del Monte Produce, which is being sued by Guatemalan laborers that claim the firm hired goons who kidnapped and tortured union organizers, and ExxonMobil, which faces claims by Indonesian villagers that the oil company is liable for the brutality of local security forces - both...
...courts to award damages that could exceed $1 billion. How Unocal fares in a trial scheduled for December in a California state court and in federal litigation will be closely watched because the oil company is just one of many big U.S. companies facing similar court cases, a potential minefield for multinationals that do business in unsavory nations. Other targets include Fresh Del Monte Produce, which is being sued by Guatemalan laborers who say the firm hired goons who kidnapped and tortured union organizers, and ExxonMobil, which faces claims by Indonesian villagers that the oil company is liable...
...courts to award damages that could exceed $1 billion. How Unocal fares in a trial scheduled for December in a California state court and in federal litigation will be closely watched because the oil company is just one of many big U.S. companies facing similar court cases, a potential minefield for multinationals that do business in unsavory nations...
...panel convened in conjunction with Solomon’s Minefield, a conference beginning today at HLS that will address issues surrounding the Solomon Amendment, which allows the government to deny universities federal funding if they bar military recruiters from campus...
...Gephardt's idea is not just one of the most ambitious proposals that any presidential candidate has made in years, but one of the riskiest - treading into the political minefield that is health care with a proposal to spend more than $240 billion a year to cover nearly all the nation's 41 million uninsured. To pay for it, he would scrap President Bush's tax cut. "I realize this is dangerous territory," Gephardt told TIME, but added, "People deserve clear, distinct, meaningful alternatives...