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...Reported by Elaine Shannon, Sally Donnelly, Viveca Novak and Mark Thompson/Washington and Hilary Hylton/Austin
...This is yet another example of how cruise lines, who fly under foreign flags, are finally coming under U.S. legal scrutiny," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. This week?s shot across the industry?s bow comes on top of a private lawsuit that last week torpedoed an embarrassing hole into Carnival, the number one cruise line. In court papers stemming from a rape complaint filed by a former crew member, Carnival, according to the New York Times, acknowledged that its crew members had been accused of sexually assaulting passengers and other staffers 62 times since 1993, prompting the company...
...whose cases ended in mistrials earlier this year. Though the cases were different -- McDougal was accused of keeping mum about the Clintons? Arkansas business dealings and Steele was accused of lying about the Kathleen Willey case -- "both made Starr appear to be overzealous," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. "McDougal made him look that way for being prosecuted over and over, and Steele for being pursued even though she was such a peripheral figure...
...official Webster Hubbell and Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker, as well as McDougal and her deceased husband, Jim. But the fact that Starr refused to relent, on even the smallest points, "will make him go away with a reputation that is somewhat less shiny than when he began," says Novak. His critics will now be watching more closely than ever to see how he decides to proceed with the last major business before him: yet another set of Hubbell prosecutions, this time on charges of tax evasion and giving false testimony...
...court decided that publishing or broadcasting pictures of people in their own homes without their consent is a serious invasion of privacy," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. The problem is compounded by the fact that "some of the people caught on film may not even be accused of a crime," she adds. A subsequent case is likely to decide whether the media itself can be sued for such activity, though issues posed by the First Amendment right of free speech could result in a different outcome for journalists...