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...million damage award to an Alabama man who bought a new $40,000 BMW 535i without knowing that it had a slightly spruced-up paint job. BMW said it spent $601.37 to retouch the 1990 sedan after it had been damaged in shipping. But an Alabama jury awarded the plaintiff $4,000 in the 1992 case for loss of value and tacked on an additional $4 million in punitive damages, which the state supreme court later cut in half...
...University also claimed that, if necessary, the entire issue could be avoided. If Harvard decides to make the four doors in question comply with regulations, the University stated that the plaintiff would have no jurisdiction...
Although the VMI ruling will also decide the pending Citadel lawsuit, this case has attracted far less attention because the plaintiff was the Bush Administration's Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, filing on behalf of an anonymous complainant under his civil rights authority. His weight and hair were not nearly so much fun to ridicule as the huffing and puffing Shannon Faulkner, whose dropping out to the cheers of cadets was carried live...
...conservative operatives." Still, after interviewing Jones in 1994, Burleigh concludes, "Jones believes she was harmed by Clinton." The President denies Jones' account that the two met in a Little Rock hotel suite in 1991, but an Arkansas state trooper has corroborated parts of her story. Jones' attorney says the plaintiff has right to a speedy trial, and the court agrees: "The President, like all other government officials, is subject to the same laws that apply to all other members of our society." But don't expect too much speed. The appeals process could take the case...
...IACOCCA Erstwhile savior of Chrysler a defendant in a lawsuit. The plaintiff: Chrysler...